Ash-E Anar - Persian Pomegranate Soup Amongst Fresh Herbs In Addition To Mini Meatballs

I've allow many winters together with pomegranate seasons become yesteryear without writing about آش انار ash-e anar. However, this fourth dimension equally I scout the icy snowfall flakes speedily hitting the windows together with pile upwards all around the solid I'm thinking it's fourth dimension to shipping service a recipe for this hearty together with tasty ash-e anar. The persuasion of making a warm ash on a mutual coldness twenty-four hr menstruation or when you lot experience a petty nether the weather condition together with need a pick-me-up was passed downwards to me yesteryear my mother. I brand ash reshteh all the fourth dimension together with chances are if you lot opened upwards my fridge you'll honor a bowl tucked inward somewhere. Not to mention, afterward all these years living inward America, it's entirely late that I've been finding large, ruby-red, juicy pomegranates inward the marketplace yesteryear where I live.

You tin brand this soup alongside brownish or greenish lentils if you lot are non a fan of yellowish dissever peas. If you lot pick out to use لپه lapeh (yellow dissever peas) I would advise boiling them for 7-10 minutes on medium heat, withdraw whatsoever of the foam that comes to the surface, drain together with and then add together to the stew. When making the کوفته قلقلی koofteh ghelgheli -mini meatballs endeavor to brand them equally tiny equally possible. They should last easily scooped upwards yesteryear a tablespoon. If you lot honor the recipe a petty sour you lot tin add together a petty saccharide to the stew. This recipe serves 6-8 people but if you lot wishing to brand less you lot tin easily cutting the total of ingredients inward half. And I retrieve you lot should definitely serve this ash with نعنا داغ nana dagh - fried dried mint together with crude mixture.

Ash-e Anar - Pomegranate Soup

Ingredients:
Serves 6-8

i pound seat down meat (lamb, beef or turkey)
i loving cup rice, rinse well, drain
1/2 loving cup yellowish dissever peas, rinse well
i large onion, chopped
2-3 cloves of garlic, minced
i bunch parsley, withdraw the stems, finely chopped
i bunch cilantro, finely chopped
i bunch scallion, greenish parts only, finely chopped
two tablespoons finely chopped fresh mint leaves
i tablespoon finely chopped fresh tarragon
1/2 loving cup pomegranate molasses, to a greater extent than if you lot like
Turmeric Powder
Salt together with pepper to taste
two tablespoons dried mint
2-3 tablespoons pomegranate seeds
Vegetable oil
Water

Method:

1. Combine the yellowish dissever peas together with  2 cups of water in a medium saucepan, convey to a boil over medium-high heat, skimming the foam from the surface, lower the rut together with cook for almost 10 minutes. Drain together with laid aside.
2. Heat three tablespoons of crude inward a large pot over medium heat, add together the onion together with gear upwards until until golden brown, add together the minced garlic, saute for 2-3 minutes, stirring frequently. Add 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder, stir well.
3. Add the rice, dissever peas, together with 8 cups of H2O to the pot. Bring to a gentle boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the rut together with gear upwards over medium-low rut for xxx minutes alongside the lid slightly ajar, stirring occasionally. 
4. In the meantime, combine the meat alongside 2-3 tablespoons of the chopped vegetables, 1/4 teaspoon turmeric, tabular array salt together with pepper. Mix thoroughly. Take modest slice of meat mixture together with shape into meatballs. Continue shaping until all the meat is used.
5. Heat two tablespoons of crude inward a skillet over medium rut together with shaver the meatballs until brownish on all sides. 
6. Add the meatballs, pomegranate molasses, chopped vegetables, tabular array salt together with pepper to the pot. encompass together with simmer on depression rut for some other 30-40 minutes.
7. In a modest pot, rut 2-3 tablespoons of crude over medium heat, add together a pinch of turmeric together with two tablespoons of dried mint, stir together with withdraw from stove. 

Pour the ash into a large serving bowl, drizzle alongside nana dagh together with garnish alongside pomegranate seeds, if desired.  Serve alongside warm bread.

Enjoy!

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