Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, persian sour cherry pilaf (albaloo polo). One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Persian sour cherry pilaf (Albaloo polo) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Persian sour cherry pilaf (Albaloo polo) is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
As much as I love Albaloo Polow I never order it when going to restaurants because it seems like they always take Sour Cherry preserve, add some This was my first time making Albaloo Polow and I was pretty happy with the results. It was a delicious combination of tart and delicious Persian spices. Albaloo polo (Persian: آلبالو پلو) is an Iranian side dish of rice and sour cherries usually served with chicken, koobideh, or other types of kebab as well as some form of stews (khoresht).
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook persian sour cherry pilaf (albaloo polo) using 13 ingredients and 42 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Persian sour cherry pilaf (Albaloo polo):
- Make ready Ingredients
- Take 3 cups Persian rice or Basmati rice
- Make ready 5 cups sour cherries
- Make ready 1/2 cup white sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp each spices: cardamom, cinamon, cumin, dried rose petal powder, nutmeg
- Get 1 tbsp saffron water
- Take 1 tbsp salt
- Take 1 tbsp Ghee oil or regular butter
- Take For tahdig (bottom of rice)
- Get 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- Make ready 1/4 cup water
- Get 2 tbsp plain yogurt
- Make ready 2 tbsp saffron water
Sour cherry is one of the richest antioxidants source along with blackberry, strawberry and raspberry. Albaloo or sour cherry has cancer prevention factors. Pilaf with sour cherries is a Persian dish called "Albaloo Polo". It is a delicious combination of sour cherries, rice and saffron.
Instructions to make Persian sour cherry pilaf (Albaloo polo):
- In a pot with deseeded cherries add sugar. Simmer for 15 minute over low heat.
- Place a plate under a colander and place the cherries in the colander and allow the juice drain.
- Melt the Ghee or butter in a pan, add spices and sauté for 1 minute and remove from the heat.
- Add cherries and saffron water. Gently mix with spices.
- Wash the rice and soak in salted water (1tbsp salt) for an hour.
- Bring the water to a boil, drain the soaked rice and add the rice to boiled water. Simmer for about 10-15 minutes until slightly tender.
- Using a colander and drain the rice. Rinse the rice with cold tap water and drain it.
- Rinse the rice with cold tap water and drain it.
- In a bowl, Mix all ingredients for tahdig and whisk it.
- Add 2 cups of parboiled rice and 2tbsp of cherries and mix well (as you see in the photos).
- Add 2tbsp vegetable oil to the pot. Pour saffron rice into the pot.
- Cover this layer with half of white rice and pour cherries and cherry juice.
- Cover the cherry layer with the remaining of white rice and pour remains of cherry juice over the rice.
- Cover the pot with a napkin and a lid. Simmer for about 30 minutes over medium heat.Once rice is ready, put a plate on top of the pot and flip it over. - Serve it with chicken or beef meat.
- Ingredients
- Sour cherries
- Spices
Albaloo Polo (pilau with sour cherries) is not only one of the most famous foods in Shiraz in southern Iran, but is also a popular dish commonly served in formal parties. Sour cherries hit the market in summer, making it an ideal season for Iranian families to cook and eat Albaloo Polo. Albaloo Polo or Sour Cherry Pilaf is a tasty Persian dish with which both vegetarians and non-vegetarians are in love. During the end of spring and the beginning of summer, when you have access to fresh sour cherry, we highly recommend you not to miss trying fresh Albaloo Polo which. If you cannot find fresh sour cherries at your local grocery store or Middle Eastern market, you can use black cherries.
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