Authentic Recipe Of Shirin Polo. Delicious Iranian-Persian Traditional Sweet Rice. - Agoralia Recipes (2024)

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Cooking Time Time: Less Than 4 Hours to be made Recipes

Main Ingredient Group Grain – Seeds Based Recipes, Rice based Recipes

Spice Level No Spicy Recipes

Dish Type Sweets Recipes

Main Cooking Method Boiled, Fried, Fried (Stir) – Wok

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• 3 cups Basmati Rice or white long grain rice
• 1 tbsp Salt For the rice
• 1 pc Onion Large, thinly sliced
• 3 tbsp Oil For the onion
• ½ cup Carrot Julienne
• 2 tbsp Butter For the carrots
• ½ cup Pistachio Slivered, chopped
• ½ cup Almond Slivered, chopped
• ⅓ cup Raisin Mix of black and gold
• 1 cup Orange Peel Julienne
• ½ cup White Sugar – Regular Sugar – Granulated Sugar
• 1 cup Water For boiling the orange peel
• ½ tsp Saffron Powder
• 4 tbsp Water Warm, for the saffron
• 1 pinch Salt
• 4 tbsp Oil For layering
• 2 tbsp Butter For layering

Saffron

• Mix the saffron powder with warm water and set aside.

Orange

• Peel orange skin with a peeler; make sure to remove the white part.

• Slice it into julienne. And soak in water for 10 minutes. Then boil for 5-7 minutes.

• Drain the water. Add more water and repeat the process. Drain and set aside.

• If you have dried peels, soak them a night before cooking the recipe, drain twice, and add fresh water.

• Boil the water and add the sugar.

• Add orange zest and slowly boil over low heat until only a quarter of syrup remains.

• Then transfer and spread orange peels into a large plate and let it cool.

• Reserve leftover syrup in a pan.

Carrots

• Heat oil in a pan and sauté the onion.

• Use leftover oil and add the butter, caramelize the carrots until golden brown over medium heat.

Rice

• Soak rice in cool water with salt after washing for 30 minutes. Drain.

• Fill half of the pot with water and bring to a boil.

• Add rice and cook for 7-10 minutes or until rice grain is soft at the ends but still hard in the center.

• Drain with a colander and run cool water over it.

Layering

• Take a large pot and add oil.

• Make a layer of rice.

• Cook for 5-7 minutes over medium heat.

• Then add diluted saffron with butter in two layers.

• Cover the pot with a kitchen towel and cook for 20 minutes over very low heat.

2nd Layering

• Heat the pan with caramelized carrots, add a bit of leftover syrup, and toss for 1–2 minutes.

• Then add pistachios, raisins, and almonds to the pan, add more syrup, and toss.

• Add a little butter for a better crunch.

• Open the steaming rice pot and layer carrots and nuts between two rice layers.

• Add more carrots and nuts at the top along with the orange zest.

• Make a pyramid shape.

• Let it steam for 20 minutes, then serve.

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