zereshk polo recipe
By: frooha uae
Recipe date: 14/04/2015
how to make easy persian zereshk polo recipe step by step with pictures
Ingredients
500grams of rice washed and soaked for half an hour +3 onion sliced +2 chicken, cut into quarters without skin +4 cloves garlic, minced + a glass of water + 3/4 teaspoon of crushed black pepper+ 3/4 teaspoon of cinnamon powder + a sprinkle of saffron + salt according to taste + 50 g of butter +2 tbsp of water + 1/2 lemon juice +1/2 tablespoons sugar + 1 cup of dried pomegranate cleaned and washed +1/4 tablespoons of saffron mixed in 1/3 cup of hot water added to it one large spoon of oil
Fry onions in 1/4 cup of oil and leave it on fire until it browns
Add garlic and fry the mixture
Add the chicken pieces and fry them till they take the red color
Add the pepper, cinnamon, saffron, salt and flip the mixture over low heat
Add 2 cups of water and leave the mixture until boiling
Cover and leave it on fire until chicken is cooked and the sauce thickens
Cook rice until it is almost cooked
Then filter the rice
Take half the amount of rice and add saffron, water and oil mixture and flip it carefully
Put 1 tablespoon of oil in a pan and then Add white rice
Then put the chicken mixture
Then the rice mixed with saffron
Put the butter, lemon juice, water, sugar and dried pomegranate in the pan
And flip the mixture over low heat so as not to burn dried pomegranate until the mixture almost dry up of water
Put dried pomegranate mixture on the surface
Cover pot with tin
Put the pot in the oven for 20-30 minutes until the steam is billowing
When catering remove the dried pomegranate mixture then put it on the surface of rice
