Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, persian sour cherry pilaf (albaloo polo). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

As much as I love Albaloo Polow I never order it when going to restaurants because it seems like they always take Sour Cherry preserve, add some This was my first time making Albaloo Polow and I was pretty happy with the results. It was a delicious combination of tart and delicious Persian spices. Albaloo polo (Persian: آلبالو پلو‎) is an Iranian side dish of rice and sour cherries usually served with chicken, koobideh, or other types of kebab as well as some form of stews (khoresht).

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook persian sour cherry pilaf (albaloo polo) using 13 ingredients and 42 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

Sour cherry is one of the richest antioxidants source along with blackberry, strawberry and raspberry. Albaloo or sour cherry has cancer prevention factors. She followed this recipe ALBALOO POLO , except she added more saffron and homemade advieh (spice). MEATBALLS Then she put the cooked meat balls in the remaining cherry glaze prepared from the aforementioned Albaloo Polo recipe to soak up the sour cherry flavor.

Instructions 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

Pilaf with sour cherries is a Persian dish called "Albaloo Polo". It is a delicious combination of sour cherries, rice and saffron. Sour cherry or Morello cherry is called ' Albaloo' in Persian language. Iranian housewives make different things with albaloo such as: sour cherr juice, hot and cold drinks, jam and stew, cake and cookies. One of the Iranian famous rice dish is called Alballoo polo/pilaf which is made with sour.

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