Persian herbed rice with fish (Sabzi polow mahi) for Iranian new year (Nowruz)
Persian herbed rice with fish (Sabzi polow mahi) for Iranian new year (Nowruz)

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, persian herbed rice with fish (sabzi polow mahi) for iranian new year (nowruz). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Persian herbed rice with fish (Sabzi polow mahi) for Iranian new year (Nowruz) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Persian herbed rice with fish (Sabzi polow mahi) for Iranian new year (Nowruz) is something which I have loved my whole life.

Sabzi Polo Mahi Persian Herbed Rice. Sabzi Polo (Polow) Mahi, Persian Herbed Rice with Fish, is a traditional Nowruz recipe. Nowruz is the Persian spiritual New Year; celebrated not just in Iran, but in many other central Asian countries, and falls on the vernal equinox, the first day of spring.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have persian herbed rice with fish (sabzi polow mahi) for iranian new year (nowruz) using 18 ingredients and 29 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Persian herbed rice with fish (Sabzi polow mahi) for Iranian new year (Nowruz):
  1. Take Ingredients for the rice
  2. Make ready 200 g rice
  3. Prepare 150 g mixed herbs (parsley, coriander, dill, spring onions), finely chopped and washed
  4. Prepare 1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
  5. Take 3 cloves garlic, peeled and diced
  6. Make ready to taste Salt
  7. Take Tortila bread
  8. Make ready Vegetable oil and butter
  9. Take Ingredients for fish
  10. Take 200 g haddock fish
  11. Get 4 Tbsp plain flour
  12. Take 1/2 Tsp turmeric
  13. Prepare 1 egg
  14. Make ready 1 Tsp saffron water
  15. Get 4 Tbsp bread crumbs
  16. Get to taste Salt- chilli powder
  17. Prepare 1 lemon or lime
  18. Prepare Vegetable oil

Rice is quite ordinary in Iranian cuisine and serves as the centrepiece to many meals, like most other mix rice dishes, fresh herbs add a charm to. Sabzi Polo and the Persian New Year. We don't break out the champagne like we do in the U. S. or stay up for the countdown to midnight to celebrate nowruz.

Steps to make Persian herbed rice with fish (Sabzi polow mahi) for Iranian new year (Nowruz):
  1. Wash and finely chop the herbs, Set aside.
  2. Wash the rice. In a bowl with salted water add rice and let the rice soak for about 1 hour. Bring a pot of water to a boil. Drain the soaked rice and stir it into the boiling water.Allow to cook the rice for 7 minutes.
  3. Add chopped herbs and let to cook for 3 minutes more.
  4. Then drain the rice and discarding the water.
  5. Pour oil over the bottom of the pot. Place a sheet of thin bread on the bottom of pot.
  6. Spread half of the rice over the bread,
  7. Add diced garlic
  8. And some ground cinnamon
  9. Then repeat with remaining of the rice. Finally place small pieces of butter top of the rice.
  10. Cover the pot with a lid and set over high heat for 2-3 minutes and then simmer for 30 minutes. Once the rice is ready let rest for 5 minutes and serve it with fish and sabzi koko (herbed frittata).
  11. In a plate mix flour with turmeric, salt and chili powder. Crack the eggs in a bowl, add salt and chili powder and beat together.
  12. Coat both sides of the fish with flour,
  13. Dip in the beaten eggs
  14. And coat with bread crumb
  15. Fry in the pan.
  16. Dish is ready. So so soo delicious, healthy and aromatic.
  29. Ingredients for rice

Since it will occur in the morning, we will probably "ring in the new year" with my in-laws, take a break in the afternoon and then. Sabzi means "herbs" and Polo means "Rice, so Sabzi Polo means "herb rice" and it's usually served with stuffed fish with pomegranates and walnuts which is a Persian style fish usually served around the new year. We call the full meal "Sabzi Polo Mahi" which means "Herb Rice and Fish". Meanwhile, Esnault is preparing the fried fish for the sabzi polow ba mahi, meant to be eaten on New Year's day. In most cuisines, the rice supports the main attraction.

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