Kookoo-Ye Marchoobeh - Persian-Style Asparagus Frittata Alongside Fresh Herbs, Walnuts Too Barberries

کوکوی مارچوبه (Asparagus kookoo) recipe came nearly equally a consequence of a recent trip to my local vegetable marketplace set where I noticed bundles of fresh dark-green asparagus neatly tied and arranged on the shelves. I savor the gustation of fresh asparagus either steamed or grilled apparently amongst only a little bit of coarse salt. However, equally I reached to pick a package up, it dawned on me that I had never cooked a Persian-style asparagus repast together with amid seemingly endless options I conduct maintain decided to brand a novel version of kookoo/kuku incorporating asparagus.

Growing upwards in Iran, I retrieve hearing my woman rear verbalize nearly marchoobeh (asparagus) but I don't retrieve eating or fifty-fifty seeing whatsoever asparagus dorsum then. Perhaps asparagus wasn't really pop or vastly cultivated together with hence it was non available amid the broad make of vegetables then.

To savor the in-season asparagus I conduct maintain combined fresh herbs, chopped walnuts together with barberries amongst eggs together with I'm very happy with the results. For this recipe, I conduct maintain added a affect of cayenne together with cumin to choose only the correct amount of flavor to the egg and asparagus combination. I must betoken out though that the traditional kookoo/kuku sabzi, similar most dishes inward the Persian cuisine, is non spicy at all.  I besides did non chop the vegetables equally finely equally I unremarkably would for the traditional kookoo. For those unable to notice barberries yous tin substitute it amongst dried cranberries instead.

Kookoo-ye Marchoobeh - Asparagus Frittata

Ingredients:
Serves 4-6

1 pound fresh asparagus (about xx medium sized stalks), ends snapped together with cutting into 2-inch pieces
8 large eggs
1 loving cup chopped fresh apartment leafage parsley
1 loving cup chopped fresh scallion (green parts only)
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few sprigs fresh mint, chopped
1/2 loving cup chopped walnuts
1/2 loving cup dried barberries (can live on flora inward most Western Farsi grocery stores), picked over together with rinsed well
1/4 teaspoon turmeric
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pinch of cayenne pepper (or to taste) *optional
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 generous pinch of cumin *optional
Salt together with pepper to taste
Olive fossil oil (extra virgin) or vegetable oil

Method:

1. Heat 4 tablespoons of olive fossil oil inward a large skillet over medium heat. Saute the asparagus pieces lightly for nearly v minutes. Sprinkle a flake of tabular array salt over the asparagus.
2. In the meantime, combine the chopped herbs, walnuts, barberries together with the spices together inward a large mixing bowl.
3. In a medium-size bowl, rhythm out the eggs until yolks together with whites are completely blended. Add tabular array salt together with pepper to taste.
4. Pour the egg over the herbs together with walnut mixture inward the large bowl together with blend well.
5. Add the egg and herb mixture over the sauteed asparagus inward the skillet. With a spatula flatten the surface of the kookoo. As eggs foremost to gear upwards conduct maintain the spatula together with function it around the edges together with brand iv large wedges or 8 small-scale ones inward the skillet. Cover together with produce for 25-30 minutes on medium-low heat.

To serve, cutting the kookoo into small-scale wedges together with house onto a platter. May live on served hot or at room temperature with yogurt, salad shirazi, torshi together with bread.

Enjoy!

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