Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, rice with dried fruits (shirin polow). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Shirin Polo is a glorious Persian Rice speckled with saffron and topped with golden Shirin means sweet and Polo is rice in Farsi. The mild sweetness and the festive look Dried citrus zest is also available in most supermarkets but as usual homemade is so. Shirin polo, also commonly known as Persian wedding rice or Rosh Hashanah rice, is a traditional Persian rice pilaf that is commonly served to mark special occasions such as weddings.
Rice with dried fruits (Shirin polow) is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Rice with dried fruits (Shirin polow) is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have rice with dried fruits (shirin polow) using 9 ingredients and 24 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Rice with dried fruits (Shirin polow):
- Get rice
- Take golden raisins
- Take dried apricots, cut into half
- Prepare dates with stones removed and cut into half
- Get Saffron (if is not available use turmeric)
- Make ready Butter
- Prepare cinnamon powder
- Get Lavash bread
- Take Salt
Shirin polo — also known as shekar polo — is a sweet rice pilaf, sometimes very sweet. The recipe below tries to find a balanced middle ground between sweet and savory. Toasted nuts, dried fruits and candied carrots and citrus peel are traditional toppings. According to him, this type of rice is commonly found at Persian festive occasions.
Steps to make Rice with dried fruits (Shirin polow):
- Put a few threads of saffron in a bowl and add 4 Tbsp boiling water,
- Cover the bowl and let to infuse.
- Melt the butter in a pan. Add dried fruits and cinnamon powder to the butter and saute for 3-4 minutes until soft. Set aside.
- Wash the rice. Soak in the water with salt for 1 hour.
- In a pot with water, bring to the boil. Drain the salty water of the rice and add the rice to the boiling water. Cook it for 7-8 minutes and then strain the rice using a colander.
- Pour some oil in the same pot,
- Place Lavash or tortilla bread in the bottom of pot
- Pour half of the par cooked rice on the bread
- And then pour over some of fried fruits
- And saffron water.
- Repeat the process with remaining of the ingredients and then cover the pot with a lid and leave it to cook over medium low heat until is ready.
- Serve it hot,
- Ingredients
His recipe suggested that you could use either turmeric or saffron. Since saffron is so expensive, I opted for turmeric, but you can substitute a the same amount of saffron. Shirin Polo is a Persian basmati rice dish traditionally served at weddings and other social occasions. A great side dish to chicken, fish or any roast. Of course they wish it was!
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