Ghanbar polo or ghambar polo is one of the delicious and popular dishes of Shirazi, which of course has many fans in other cities as well. A very delicious meal prepared from the combination of rice with meatballs, raisins, walnuts and saffron.
This dish is used as a dinner for special guests. The preparation of this dish is very simple and of course it has some tips that I will tell you below. So stay with me until the end of the article.
4 cups of rice
Raisins 4 tablespoons
. Minced meat 500 grams
Walnut 1.7 g
Two tablespoons of pomegranate paste
1 large onion
3 tablespoons of brewed saffron
Oil as needed
Turmeric, black pepper and salt as needed
1. First, I peel and wash a large onion and then grate it with a fine grater. Then take the onion juice and add it to the minced meat. Then add spices such as turmeric, black pepper and salt to the meat and mix completely. We knead with our hands until all the ingredients are mixed together.
2. Then, after kneading, we put the meat in the refrigerator so that it hardens. After that, we take it out of the refrigerator for about half an hour and knead the meat with our hands. Then fry the meatballs with a little oil.
3. Then we add pomegranate paste to the meat. After that, we add raisins and fry a little and put the ingredients in there.
4. After that, we go to the rice and prepare the rice that we have soaked for 3 hours. We put the rice in boiling water with a little salt. And after 10 to 15 minutes, when the rice reaches the desired softness, drain it.
Pour oil on the bottom of the pot and put a few pieces of potato or lavash bread as tahdig. We will continue to do this until the ingredients are used up.
Then increase the heat of the pot until the rice is steamed. After steaming the rice, reduce the heat under the pot so that the rice cooks for 30 to 45 minutes.Depending on the type of rice and as desired, we can add a little water and oil to the rice.
Congratulations, Persian meatballs and rice is ready. You can enjoy this authentic Shirazi dish with Shiraz salad, yogurt and cucumber.
Raisins must be pre-soaked.
You can add any spices you like (such as garlic powder or pilo) to the minced meat to make it tasty.
If you do not like the sweet taste of food, do not use grape juice and serve honey as it is.
Do not fry the raisins too much. Raisins are fried quickly and do not need to be roasted much.
Use a combination of pomegranate paste and grape juice to sweeten the taste of hemp.
If you don't like the sweet taste of grape juice in food, you can add pomegranate paste to the ingredients
