Estamboli Polow - Persian Love Apple Tree Rice Amongst Potatoes

This recipe is perfect all twelvemonth circular since most pantries are ever stocked amongst fresh tomatoes together with canned tomato plant products. However, I waited for the atmospheric condition to warm upwardly together with for the peak tomato plant flavour to larn inwards to hopefully create amongst vine-ripened tomatoes together with non the irksome together with tasteless tomatoes that are picked green. This recipe is loosely based on my grandmother's recipe who was known for her delicious cooking. For a to a greater extent than tart استامبولی پلو - estamboli polow recipe, I searched the vegetable markets for a skillful torsh (tangy) tomato plant exactly to no avail. Among all the dissimilar varieties of tomatoes that were available I settled on the beefsteak tomatoes due to their nifty flavor. I prefer outdoor cooking inwards the hot summertime months together with endeavour to minimize my standing inwards the kitchen every bit much every bit I tin give the axe exactly this tomato plant rice is a perfect summertime dish that goes good amongst grilled chicken, fish or vegetables.

There are many recipes for estamboli polow from apparently tomato plant rice to a rice consummate amongst meat and green beans, depending on what business office of the province y'all are from together with how this was prepared inwards your home. For us, growing upwardly inwards Khuzestan, estamboli meant کته تماته/گوجه فرنگی - kateh-ye tamate which is slow-cooked rice inwards tomato plant puree amongst the add-on of modest cubed potatoes using the long together with narrow type of spud called estamboli inwards Iran. For a simpler estamboli y'all tin give the axe fifty-fifty brand it without adding the cubed potatoes. If y'all prefer a less acidic dish y'all tin give the axe skip the tomato plant paste. Ultimately, it depends on your taste, diet, together with nutrient restrictions.

Estamboli Polow

Ingredients:
Serves 4

ii cups long-grain rice, rinsed good together with drained
seven ripe medium tomatoes, blanched together with peeled
vi modest potatoes, peeled together with cubed
i modest onion, diced
1-2 tablespoons organic tomato plant glue (for added color together with a fighting of an extra sour flavor) *optional
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
H5N1 skillful pinch of crushed cherry-red pepper
Salt
Vegetable fossil oil or butter
Water

Method:

1. In a pot of boiling H2O blanch the tomatoes for v minutes or until the peel comes off. Let cool, take away the skin, essence the tomatoes together with puree using a nutrient processor. Yields nearly 4 cups.
2. In a medium bowl launder the rice thoroughly until completely clean, drain completely. 
3. In a mixing bowl combine the well-drained rice amongst the tomato plant puree, mix good together with allow it soak for 20-30 minutes earlier cooking the rice. Do non drain.
4. In a large pan, estrus three tablespoons of vegetable fossil oil over medium heat, add together the onions, create until golden. 
5. Add the potatoes, create for nearly 5-7 minutes or until golden on all sides. add together turmeric together with a pinch of salt. Stir well.
6. Push the potatoes to the side together with add together the tomato plant glue inwards the pump of the pan together with create for nearly v minutes over medium-low heat, stirring oft using a wooden spoon until it changes color. 
7. Remove the pan away from the estrus source, add together the rice together with tomato plant mixture to the pot, add together 1/4 loving cup of water, i teaspoon tabular array salt together with a pinch of cherry-red pepper, stir well.
8. Return the pan to the estrus together with select to a boil over medium-high heat, add together 1-2 tablespoons of butter or oil. Stir. Reduce the heat, encompass the lid amongst a newspaper towel or a construct clean dish cloth, closed the lid tightly together with create on depression estrus for xl minutes. Over cooking together with adding also much H2O makes the rice also mushy.

Serve amongst apparently yogurt or  mast o khiar, sabzi khordan amongst a bunch of fresh mint, and salad shirazi.

Enjoy!

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