Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, persian sour cherry pilaf (albaloo polo). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Persian sour cherry pilaf (Albaloo polo) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Persian sour cherry pilaf (Albaloo polo) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

Nowadays, albaloo or sour cherry produce in Iran, countries around Caspian sea, Russia, Eastern Europe countries and Turkey. Fresh or dried sour cherries are used in cooking including: soup, aash, rice, stew, cakes, pies, jam and marmalade. Today's recipe is Albaloo polo, an Iranian rice dish with sour cherries.

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 can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Persian sour cherry pilaf (Albaloo polo):

1. Take Ingredients
2. Make ready 3 cups Persian rice or Basmati rice
3. Prepare 5 cups sour cherries
4. Take 1/2 cup white sugar
5. Take 1 tsp each spices: cardamom, cinamon, cumin, dried rose petal powder, nutmeg
6. Prepare 1 tbsp saffron water
7. Get 1 tbsp salt
8. Take 1 tbsp Ghee oil or regular butter
9. Prepare For tahdig (bottom of rice)
10. Take 1/2 cup vegetable oil
11. Prepare 1/4 cup water
12. Make ready 2 tbsp plain yogurt
13. Get 2 tbsp saffron water

One of the Iranian famous rice dish is called Alballoo polo/pilaf which is made with sour cherries, spices and different meats such as: beef, lamb, or chicken and meat balls. The sour cherry is just as it sounds, sour. So you have to cook it down to make it tasty for dishes. Albaloo Polow is not a dish you want to order out if you go to a Persian restaurant, it's rarely fresh and they usually just use a preserve.

Steps to make Persian sour cherry pilaf (Albaloo polo):

1. In a pot with deseeded cherries add sugar. Simmer for 15 minute over low heat.
4. Place a plate under a colander and place the cherries in the colander and allow the juice drain.
5. Melt the Ghee or butter in a pan, add spices and sauté for 1 minute and remove from the heat.
8. Add cherries and saffron water. Gently mix with spices.
9. Wash the rice and soak in salted water (1tbsp salt) for an hour.
11. 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.
12. Using a colander and drain the rice. Rinse the rice with cold tap water and drain it.
13. Rinse the rice with cold tap water and drain it.
14. In a bowl, Mix all ingredients for tahdig and whisk it.
18. Add 2 cups of parboiled rice and 2tbsp of cherries and mix well (as you see in the photos).
20. Add 2tbsp vegetable oil to the pot. Pour saffron rice into the pot.
22. Cover this layer with half of white rice and pour cherries and cherry juice.
24. Cover the cherry layer with the remaining of white rice and pour remains of cherry juice over the rice.
26. 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.
40. Ingredients
41. Sour cherries
42. Spices

The real thing is something out of this world that you have to experience. Albaloo Polo (آلبالو پلو) is a famous Persian rice dish. Albaloo is the Persian word for sour cherry, and Polo is a rice cooking method in Persian cuisine. This food was originated in Azerbaijan parts of Iran, but nowadays it is cooked in central and northern Iran, more than Azerbaijan. Ticket in Iran; Iran Car Rental; Iran Tourist Card; Insurance Application Form A classic Persian side dish of buttery, saffron-infused rice layered with sour-cherry preserves.

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