Adas Polo with Dates Recipe _ Persian Lentil Rice
The great taste of a Middle Eastern pilaf with lentils and the pleasure of the aroma of Iranian spices in Iranian lentil pilaf
Adas polo is a very nutritious food full of vitamins and proteins. It has many benefits, and it is recommended that teenagers and growing children include it in their weekly diet.
The combination of lentils and rice, along with minced meat, hot onion, raisins, and dates, is a perfect set full of energy for every person. From childhood to my son’s teenage years, I always made one meal a week of Persian lentil rice.
One day with meat, one day with chicken, and in different ways so that constant consumption is not annoying. This will improve vision and provide vitamins and iron needed by my children’s bodies.
Persian lentil rice is one of the most nutritious types of polo. Persian lentil rice with dates consists of Iranian rice, lentils, Currant, dates, and fried onions, and this food is cooked almost the same way in all cities of Iran.
In many cities of Iran, by adding deleting chicken and meat, barberry, Currant, and saffron, this food is cooked in different ways. Adas polo and loobia polo are two types of delicious and famous Iranian pilaf.
But all of them have one thing in common: tahdig sibzamini. Potato tahdig is the most lovely part of Persian lentil rice that every person with any taste cannot miss.
Unfortunately, the exact history of the origin of this food is not available.
For: 4 people
Preparation: 20 minutes
Cook for: 45 minutes
Ingredients :
| Lentils | 1 ½ cup |
| Turmeric | 1 tsp |
| Black pepper | 1 tsp |
| Thyme powder | 1 tsp |
| Cinnamon stick | 1 pcs |
| Rice | 3 cups |
| Medium onion | Two pcs |
| Cinnamon powder | 1 tbsp |
| Butter | 2.8 ounces |
| Saffron (brewed) | 1 tsp |
| Minced meat (mutton and veal) | 0.5 pound |
| Curry spice | 1 tbsp |
| Sugar | 2 tbsp |
| Liquid oil | optional |
| Dates (without seeds) | Eight pcs |
| Current (washed and drained) | ½ cup |
| Salt | optional |
Instruction:
1. Soak the lentils in water for 2 hours (changing the water 2-3 times during soaking).
2. Then pour it in a colander. Put the lentils in a pot with water and heat on medium heat until simmering. Then decrease the heat to low,add the cinnamon stick and a little salt, and cook for 50 minutes, then drain.
3. Soak the rice in water and salt for 2 to 4 hours. When cooking, drain the water and pour it into a pot containing boiled water. Heat on high for 7 to 14 minutes.Leave until ready, then drain.
4. Chop the onion and fry it (put half of it away to saute the meat). Then, pour a layer of rice, one spoonful of fried onion, lentils, and cinnamon into a hot oil pot.
Pour the rest of the ingredients on top of the rice in the same way, and finally, cover it with white rice.
Put the lid on the pot and increase the heat until the rice steam rises. Then, decrease the heat to low and let it cook for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
5. Melt the butter on low heat. When the rice’s steam rises, pour the butter over the rice, sprinkle half of the saffron on a corner of the rice, and cover the lid of the pot.
6. Put half of the fried onion aside in a frying pan and add a little liquid oil. Add the meat to it and put it on low heat. Then, add salt, turmeric powder, black pepper, and curry spices and saute the meat completely. Add the rest of the saffron and sugar.
7. When you want to serve, saute the dates and currants in separate fry pans with liquid oil, then pour them with the meat mixture and the rest of the hot onions on the adas polo and serve.
Notes :
- Adding cinnamon to this recipe gives it a double taste and aroma.
- Ada’s polo tahdig is an important part of this food for the lover of tahdig. You can use potato and Lavash bread for tahdig, but this food is popular with potato tahdig.
- Some people serve this food with chicken instead of minced meat, named adas polo ba morgh. It depends on your taste.
- Use enough saffron to make your Lentil and rice pilaf colorful and delicious.
- Cumin powder in the meat removes its bad smell and makes the food tastier.
- Use pistachio slices and almond slices to decorate Middle Eastern lentil rice.
- If you want to prepare Lentil and rice pilaf without meat, you must remove the steps for preparing the meat and follow the instructions for the rest of the steps.
- Keshmesh polo and Adasi are very close and related to this Iranian pilaf.
- To prepare Lentil and rice pilaf with chicken, you must first cook the chicken with chopped onion, salt, pepper, and saffron. Then, remove the bones, ve the chicken, and add it to the rice along with the lentils and hot onions.
- You can increase or decrease the amount of lentils according to your taste.
- Instead of minced meat, you can use mushroom sl, iced cooked meat, or sliced cooked chicken.
- You can also make this food with minced meat in a meatball shape.
- While boiling lentils, add cumin to them. This will give your food a great taste.
- When you pour the lentils on top of the rice, sprinkle a little cinnamon powder on each layer.
- The ingredients and recipe are suitable for four people, and you can change the sizes according to the number of people and by observing the proportions.
- You can use mutton, ve, al, or soy instead of meat.
- Adas polo calories are equal to 225 calories per 100 grams. Lentils have 16 grams of carbohydrates per 100 grams.
- To cook a professional Persian pilaf, in the first step, pour the lentils in water with a little salt and put them on a high flame. After 5 minutes, reduce the flame. This will prevent the lentils from falling apart and preserve the appearance of your food.
- One way to make this food tastier is to use fried onions. You can pour fried onions alone on rice or cook them with minced meat, raisins, and dates. To make this food more colorful, use a little saffron.
- This food is made from rice and lentils, both of which have a cold taste. Therefore, to balance the taste of the food, it is recommended to eat it with raisins and dates or spices such as cardamom, black cumin, and saffron, which have a warm taste.
- This food is rich in protein due to the presence of lentils. Eating Lentil and rice pilaf at noon and lunch is recommended because it is considered a heavy meal, especially if it is eaten with fried onions and minced meat.
3. Improve heart health
Folate protects your heart and supports the formation of red blood cells. It’s especially important for your baby’s development if you’re pregnant. Lentils have plenty of folate, iron and vitamin B1, which also support your heart health.
Lentils may be associated with a lower risk of heart disease, by lowering bad cholesterol and blood pressure. One study found that eating lentils led to greater reductions in blood pressure than eating chickpeas, peas or beans.
sourced: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/
Properties and benefits of adas polo:
Lentils are among the legumes that have many properties and are very useful for treating anemia and iron deficiency. Also, it does not have many calories and does not cause obesity. The properties of lentils are:
- Maintaining heart health
- Help to lose weight
- Improve the health of the digestive system
- Fight against high blood sugar
- Rich source of fiber and protein
- Cholesterol reducer
- Blood pressure reducer
- Strengthen the immune system
- Cancer prevention
- Prevention of anemia
- Heals the cells of the body
- Maintaining skin health
- Rich source of phosphorus, manganese, copper and potassium
- Increasing the activity of brain cells and strengthening memory
FAQ :
1. How many calories adas polo have?
Adas polo calories are 40kcal in 1spoon
2. What is Adas in English?
Adas in English means Lentils.
3. Is Adas polo healthy?
Middle Eastern lentil rice, because of having Lentlis, is full of vitamins and minerals.
4. What is adas polo served with?
Iranian Pickle Salad Shirazi, Mast o Khiar, and Sabzi Khordan are other options that you can use.
Of course, eating this pilaf with yogurt is not recommended because it prevents iron absorption in lentils.
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- If you want vegetarian food, I suggest this dish without meat.
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