Type: Side Dish (rice)
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 50 minutes
Servings: 6-8
INGREDIENTS
- 2 cups long-grain white rice
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 bunch fresh dill
- 1 bunch fresh parsley
- 1 cup fresh or frozen fava beans
- 1/2 tsp. ground turmeric to taste
- 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
Instructions:
- Rinse rice under tap water.
- Prepare parsley and dill by chopping them finely
- Bring 3 cups of water to a boil (not part of the ingredients above).
- Once boiling, put rice into water and boil until rice rises to the surface of the water.
- Drain rice of water, then thoroughly stir in oil and the 1/2 cup water from above.
- Add parsley, dill, turmeric, cinnamon, salt and pepper.
- Place rice back on stove, cook over medium for 4-5 minutes
- Cover and simmer rice on low for another 40 minutes.
- Eat as much rice as you can. It is optional if you want to have a meat side dish, or just enjoy the tasty tasty rice.
Per Wikipedia: Sabzi polo (Persian: سبزی پلو) is an Iranian (Persian) dish of rice and chopped herbs, usually served with fish. In Persian, sabz means green, and sabzi can refer to herbs or vegetables. Polo is a style of cooked rice, known in English as pilaf.
The herbs used in sabzi polo vary, but typically include coriander, dill, chives or scallions, fenugreek, and parsley. It can be done from both, fresh and dried herbs.
Iranians traditionally eat sabzi polo with māhi sefid (“white fish”), the Caspian kutum, for lunch on Nowruz, the Iranian new year, with their family and relatives.
A Girl U Should Know 