Adas Polo | Persian Rice with Lentils

Adas polo is one of the most famous Persian pilafs that is made by rice and lentils. This dish is very easy and tasty! You would not find any other better choice for a late dinner activity or a quick assemble lunch than Adas Polo.

Adas polo is also a fantastic yet satisfying option for vegetarians. If you are vegetarian and you are tired of rice and stews, you can go for pilafs and what better pilaf than adas polo? That is right! Adas Polo will make you happy and pleased because of its health benefits and amazing taste! Eat this awesome polo with Borani Esfenaj and enjoy.

Adas Polo Recipe

Adas Polo is one of those simple yet popular dishes which doesn’t take long to prepare, with a lot of benefits for our health. In general lentils can provide your body with a lot of nourishment. To have a tastier Adas Polo the topping is really important.

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Prep Time 30 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Total Time 1 hour hr 30 minutes mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine persian

Servings 4 people

Ingredients

  

• 1 cup lentil
• 2 cups rice
• 2 tbsp brewed saffron
• 150 grams minced meat 
• 200 grams raisins
• 1 soupspoon turmeric
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 5 cloves of garlic
• 1 onion
• salt as much as required
• oil as much as required

Instructions

 

• the night (about 12 hours) before you want to cook Adas Polo, leave the lentils and the rice in some water so that they will absorb some of it. This will help them cook better.
• The same thing must be done on the rice, so about 12 hours before you want to cook it, leave it in some water. Before leaving it in some water, it must be washed and rinsed for several times. The first time the water will look white. After washing it several times the color won’t change. Then, add some water (the level of water must be about 2 centimeters higher than the rice) and leave the rice in water for 12 hours.
• To start cooking separate the water from the lentils add put them in a pot. Add some water to the pot, the level of the water must be about 2 centimeters higher than the lentils.
• Put the pot on a low flame of gas burner, add some oil and turmeric to the pot and let the lentils cook gradually. This will make the lentils be more beautiful.
• After washing and peeling the cloves of garlic and the onions, dice them. In a frying pan and using some oil, first stir fry the onions and when the onions are a little softer, add the diced garlic. Before the garlic and the onions are completely fried, add the minced meat. Fry the meat for a short while and then add some salt, pepper and turmeric. Continue frying the meat.
• Use another pot to cook the rice. To do this, fill half of the pot will water and leave the water on the flame of the gas burner long enough for the water to start boiling. After it started boiling, add some salt.
• Separate the rice from the water and add the rice to the boiling water. Use a big spoon to gently stir the rice. After a while, when the rice is cooked and no longer hard, using a sieve, separate it from the water and rinse it with some warm water.
• To complete the process of cooking, in a different pot, add a layer of the rice, on top of that a layer of lentils and on top of that, a layer of meat. Continue making these layers until you run out of the ingredients.
• Pour ½ glass hot water, 1 tablespoon oil and the brewed saffron in the pot. For the heat to be spread properly, make sure to use a heat diffuser and apiece of cloth as an infuser on top of the pot. Cover the pot with its lid. After 25 minutes, the dish is ready.
• pot with its lid. After 25 minutes, the dish is ready.

Adas Polo topping

This dish is usually topped with raisins and fried onions. First clean and wash the raisins and wait for them to dry. Add some oil to a frying pan after the oil got heated, gradually stir fry the raisins. Their texture is really sensitive and will burn soon, so make sure to fry them gradually and slowly over a low flame of gas burner. The more resins you prepare, the more delicious this dish will get.

When the dish is ready, top it with some fried onions, fried raisins end pistachio slices.

You can also use some completely fried minced meat, next to the fried raisins as the topping.

You can serve this simple healthy dish with some Sabzi Khordan, yogurt and yogurt drink.