Dampokhtak Persian Recipe | Dami Baghali

Have you ever heard the name of the dish Dam Pokhtak in Persian food? This turmeric rice with fava beans is a great traditional Persian dish that is easily made. Just make this pilaf once and you will fall in love with it.

Dampokhtak | Persian Turmeric Rice with fava beans

DamPokhtak is a traditional Iranian dish, because of its simplicity to cook despite its magnificent, it is really popular in Iran. But, nowadays Persian Turmeric Rice is not cooked as frequently as it was before. Perhaps because modern types of food are becoming more popular in Iran. Despite all this, make sure to try cooking this dish at least once to enjoy its taste.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 45 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr

Course Main Course

Cuisine persian

Servings 4 people

Calories 636 kcal

Ingredients

  

• 3 cups rice
• 2.5 cups peeled Fava Beans
• 3 onions
• 60 grams butter
• Salt, pepper and turmeric as mush as required

Instructions

 

• About 4 hours before you want to cook this dish, leave the beans in some water so that they will absorb some water.
  
• Chop the onions and use some butter to fry it. Butter is used instead of oil. It gives the dish a more unique taste.
  
• When the pieces of onion get golden, add some turmeric and continue frying them.
  
• Separate the water from the beans and add the beans to the onions. Stir fry them for a short while.
  
• Add a glass of water. Wait for the beans to cook (and the water to evaporate|).
  
• In a separate pan, add the rice and 3 glasses of water and some soil. Wait for the water to boil and the rice to cook. When the rice has expanded in rice and the water is gone, the rice is ready to be mixed with the other ingredients, so mix them completely.
• To complete the process of cooking, the ingredients must be put in a different pot but first add some oil to the pot and to have some lovely, crunchy Tah Dig, cover the bottom of the pot with some bread and add the other ingredients. Leave the pot on the flame of the gas burner, and let the DamPokhtak cook for about 45 minutes.

Serving DamPokhtak (Persian Turmeric Rice)

• This simple-to-cook dish just like Etamboli is usually served with some yogurt, Torshi, Sabzi Khordan. Many people add some fried eggs to the dish when serving it. Do not forget Salad Shirazi next to it.

Tips for cooking Persian Turmeric Rice

• At the begging, when melting the butter, add a little oil to it. The oil won’t let the butter burn.
• The turmeric, gives the dish its yellow color. So the amount of it, must be more than usual.
• This type of bean cooks so quickly, so do not overcook it.
• For 500 grams rice, 250 grams Fava Beans are required.
• The amount of the calorie mentioned in the recipe has been calculated with one fried egg. Each fried egg has about 80 calories.

Since this dish doesn’t take much time to be cooked and prepared, it can be a good choice for when you are busy and do not have enough time for cooking. Tell us if you have ever cooked or tried this dish. We would like to know how you prepared and liked it.

Fava Beans Have Countless Benefits!

Fava beans are also called broad beans and they are little green legumes. There are many health benefits of fava beans that you can learn some of them below:

• Fava beans are rich in vitamins, fiber, minerals and protein. So, they can be a healthy source for nutrients. Fava beans have a lot of soluble fiber and can be a good helper for digestion.
• It has been said that fava beans can make the Parkinson’s disease better. It is because of dopamine being made by them. Though the research of this statement is not enough, but who can ignore the odds?