Zereshk Polo

Zereshk Polo is one of the delicious traditional Persian foods that served in the ceremonies with a colorful design.

Zereshk Polo is one of the classic Persian foods that served with fried chicken. It is served in the ceremonies because it is a yummy dish, and its colorful design plays with your appetite. When you hear Zereshk Polo, you will ask yourself what does it mean? Polo means rice, and Zereshk is red and sour that Barberry is its equivalent in English. Now, let’s talk about how to cook this delicious food.

• Ingredients of Zereshk Polo

  To test this tasty food, you have to know about its recipes. The ingredients which you may need are as follows: Rice, chicken, chopped onion, turmeric, tomato paste, lemon juice, barberry, pistachio slice, butter, salt, saffron, and sugar.

• Recipe of Zereshk Polo

  Cooking Zereshk Polo consists four steps as follows:
   
  • First step: At first, you need to fry the chopped onion with the chicken in hot oil over low heat. Put chopped onion in the pan then add salt and turmeric to it. After a while, add chicken and let to fry for about 20 minutes.
     
  • Second step: Now you have to add some cup of water that depends on how much chicken you use. Remember, the amount of water shouldn’t cover the chicken. Let it boil for about 15 minutes to reduce the water to half.
     
  • Third step: At this step, to flavor the chicken and make a particular taste, you need to prepare a sauce with tomato paste. Fry the tomato paste for two minutes, then add lemon juice and saffron. After five minutes, add them to the chicken water and let it cook for about 15 minutes over low heat.
     
  • Fourth step: During the cooking of chicken, you have to prepare Zereshk (barberry). Add butter in the pan with some amount of oil, then add barberries, sugar, and saffron and let it fry for about two minutes. After two minutes, add some amount of rice which has mixed with saffron to the barberries, then turn off the heat, and after a while, add pistachio slices.
     
  • Final step: You have to add a mixture of barberries to the rice and serve it with the fried chicken.

• Where can you test a delicious taste of Zereshk Polo?

  Zereshk Polo serves in the most restaurants of Iran. Some of the best restaurants in Tehran Province are as follows:

  • Moslem Restaurant

    • Moslem Restaurant’s working hours start from 11:00 AM Until 6:00 PM.

    • Address: Haj Rahim Khan Alley, next to the Sabzeh Meydan, Tehran Grand Bazaar.

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  • Shamshiry Restaurant

    • Shamshiry Restaurant’s working hours start from 11:00 AM Until 9:00 PM.

    • Address: Sabzeh Meydan, Tehran Grand Bazaar.

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  • Nayeb Restaurant

    • Nayeb Restaurant’s working hours start from 10:00 AM Until 3:45 PM.

    • Address: Panzdah-e-Khordad Streeet, Tehran Grand Bazaar.