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)

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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. Sabzi Polow (herb rice) and Mahi (fish) is traditionally served for the Persian new year Norooz.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook 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. Make ready Ingredients for the rice
  2. Take 200 g rice
  3. Take 150 g mixed herbs (parsley, coriander, dill, spring onions), finely chopped and washed
  4. Make ready 1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
  5. Take 3 cloves garlic, peeled and diced
  6. Take to taste Salt
  7. Prepare Tortila bread
  8. Take Vegetable oil and butter
  9. Prepare Ingredients for fish
  10. Make ready 200 g haddock fish
  11. Get 4 Tbsp plain flour
  12. Prepare 1/2 Tsp turmeric
  13. Get 1 egg
  14. Get 1 Tsp saffron water
  15. Take 4 Tbsp bread crumbs
  16. Prepare to taste Salt- chilli powder
  17. Make ready 1 lemon or lime
  18. Prepare Vegetable oil

I first shared this recipe in the post Persian herb rice with fish for Nowruz on the Sunday Supper. Sabzi Polo is a traditional Persian herbed rice pilaf. This dish in particular is eaten during the Persian New Year (Nowruz, late March) and served with white fish. The type of white fish varies from rare local fish like Caspian kutum to something more accessible, like halibut or tilapia.

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

The Sabzi Polo va Mahi is a traditional Persian dish served at their New Year, which comes at the beginning of spring. The celebration happens every year to signify the beginning of spring. One of the traditional dishes is herbed rice and fish, or Sabzi Polo. The cooking of Persian rice is an art, quite different from other rice traditions. The rice is first parboiled and then steamed with other ingredients.

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