Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, persian jeweled rice. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Persian Jeweled Rice is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Persian Jeweled Rice is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Persian Jeweled Rice is a spectacular rice pilaf topped with colorful gem-like fruits and nuts. This popular Middle Eastern wedding dish is a celebration in itself ~ it's gluten free, vegan, and incredibly delicious! save the recipe! This dish is called jeweled rice because it is golden and glistening, laced with butter and spices and piled with gem-colored fruits Some of the ingredients called for may require some effort to find, but you can make substitutions If you cannot get dried barberries (imported from Iran), you will need dried cherries or goji berries or dried cranberries I recently spent a few days with Najmieh Batmanglij — known to many as the Queen of Persian Cooking — who opened me up to the cooking of her native Iran, and in particular to a rice dish called Jeweled Rice, or Javaher Polow.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have persian jeweled rice using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Persian Jeweled Rice:
- Make ready 1 cup rice
- Take 4 T butter (divided)
- Make ready 2 T sugar (divided)
- Make ready 1/4 cup Gran Marnier (divided)
- Prepare 1 T cardamon
- Prepare 1/4 t tumeric
- Prepare 1/4 t salt
- Make ready Small onion, diced
- Take 1/4 cup raisins
- Prepare 1/4 cup dried cranberries
- Take 1/2 cup roasted pistachios
- Take Carrot stock
The rice is soft and fluffy and cooked in stock to give it a great depth of flavor. Lightly spiced with cinnamon, cumin, and cardamom, then finished with cranberries, lemon, and pistachio, this is a touch of the Middle East. Iranian jeweled rice called javaher polow in Farsi is as beautiful as it is delicious. Polow or rice of all types is loved in Persian cuisine and served with every meal.
Steps to make Persian Jeweled Rice:
- Make rice per rice directions, using carrot stock instead of water. Add 2T butter, 1 T sugar, cardamon, tumeric, 1/8 cup Gran Marnier, and salt to pot.
- Make fruit & nut mix. Soak raisins and cranberries in hot water with 1T sugar disolved. Let sit at least 10 minutes. Saute onions over 1T butter. Once soft, add plumped raisins and cranberries, pistachios, and 1/8 C Gran Marnier. Cook off liquid.
- Stir fruit & nut mix into rice once rice is cooked.
- Melt 1 T butter in saute pan over med high heat. Fry rice in pan like scrambled eggs, turning and stiring once bottom begins to brown.
Aptly named, as pomegranate arils, barberries, orange peel, raisins, nuts and oh yes saffron, adorn it. Persian Jeweled rice (Javaher polo), also known as Bride's rice, or Morasah rice, is a popular dish across all Iran. Traditionally served in large amounts at weddings, festivals, family gatherings, and new year's celebrations. Transfer to a plate, let cool, then coarsely chop. The King of all Persian dishes, the Persian Jewelled Rice or Morasa Polow bedazzles the eye with twinkles of red, green, orange and gold.
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