Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, persian jeweled rice. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Persian Jeweled Rice is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Persian Jeweled Rice is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
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. When I took my first bite, I almost cried from a near overload in flavor, fragrance, balance and a notable infusion of love in the grains of rice, tart little. Persian Jeweled Rice is a spectacular rice pilaf topped with colorful gem-like fruits and nuts.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have persian jeweled rice using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Persian Jeweled Rice:
- Make ready 1 cup rice
- Take 4 T butter (divided)
- Make ready 2 T sugar (divided)
- Take 1/4 cup Gran Marnier (divided)
- Prepare 1 T cardamon
- Prepare 1/4 t tumeric
- Prepare 1/4 t salt
- Get Small onion, diced
- Prepare 1/4 cup raisins
- Make ready 1/4 cup dried cranberries
- Get 1/2 cup roasted pistachios
- Take Carrot stock
Morasa means jewels and it's easy to see why this jewelled rice always makes an appearance at major Persian festivals such as Nowruz, the Persian New Year and especially weddings; its gems and sweetness is. Persian jeweled rice, also known as "javaher polow" in Persian is known to be a traditional rice served at big celebrations, such as weddings. Which is why I thought it would be just perfect to showcase during the time I am celebrating my girlfriends wedding. Colors pop out and it is as eye catching as it is.
Instructions 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.
This dish is called jeweled rice because it is golden and glistening, laced with butter and spices and piled with nuts and gem-colored fruits. In Iran, it is typically served at weddings or other celebrations. Great platters of it appear at banquets. It also goes beautifully with a weeknight roast chicken. Persian Jeweled rice (Javaher polo), also known as Bride's rice, or Morasah rice, is a popular dish across all Iran.
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