Albaloo Polo with Meatballs Recipe

Albaloo polo with meatballs is a Local Persian food that is prepared for special parties. Of course, it is not only a party, but it is very suitable when you have the necessary ingredients at home and enough patience to make a beautiful and tasty dish with cherries and minced meat.

Cherry is usually a fruit that is available fresh in the summer season and this dish is mostly cooked in the summer. If you are a fan of almost sour and sweet foods, don’t miss this authentic Iranian dish.
I am going to go to this very delicious and beautiful pilaf without any interruption and be sure to stay with me until the end of the article.

Preparing albaloo polo with meatballs is very simple and the same as albaloo polo with chicken. The only difference is that we use meatballs instead of chicken.

Ingredient :

Instruction :

1. To prepare this Persian dish, we first take the cherries’ leaves and tails, wash them, and pour them in a colander to remove the excess water.

Then we take out the cores of the cherries and (in the pot that we plan to cook the sour cherries and put them in a pot.

2. After removing all the kernels, we put the pot on the heat, pour the sugar on the cherries, and stir until it boils. The cherries boil for about 10 minutes, then remove the pot from the heat and place the strainer in a large bowl.

3. Then we pass the cherries through a strainer, pour the cherry juice back into the pot, and put it on the heat until it thickens.

When the cherry juice reaches the desired concentration, we take the pot off the heat, keep it aside until it cools down, and pour it into the desired glass.

4. We peel the onion, wash it, grate it, squeeze out its juice completely, add it to the minced meat, sprinkle a little black pepper and salt on the meat and onion mixture, and start kneading it until it is completely smooth. Add the spices to the meat.

5. At that time, we take the size of a small walnut from the minced meat, shape it like a meatball with the palms of our hands, and put it on a plate. We all make minced meat in the same way.

6. You can use chicken breast instead of minced meat and put it next to rice. Then, we put a pan on low heat, poured a little oil in it, and let it get a little hot.

7. Then we pour the minced meat into the pan, reduce the heat, and fry them in the pan until the color of the meatballs changes completely.

Then we wait until they are fried, and then we take the pan off the heat and keep it aside.

8. Pour half of the water into a pot, add a little salt, put the lid on the pot, and increase the heat until the water boils faster. When the water is boiling, wash the rice and drain the water.

9. Next, we pour the rice into the boiling water and let the rice boil in the water for 7 to 10 minutes until the initial cooking of the rice is done.

Then we test a piece of rice on the teeth; if the surrounding area is soft and the rice core is hard, we should drain the rice.

10. We drain the rice and put the pot we have prepared for cooking albalu polo on low heat and pour oil on the bottom of it; we can put bread or potatoes on the bottom of the pot and then put 1-2 ladles of rice on the bottom of the pot.

11. Pour some of the meatballs and sour cherries on the rice and again add the next layer of rice, meatballs, and sour cherries. Until the rice and meatballs are finished. Pour half a glass of cherry syrup and 1 tablespoon of liquid oil on the rice and close the pot lid.

12. First, we increase the heat until the steam inside the pot wraps, and then we reduce the heat to a very low temperature until this polo is completely cooked.

Cover the albaloo polo completely in the pot with a spatula, pour it into a dish, decorate it with a little cherry and meatballs, and enjoy.

This dish is suitable to be placed next to the Yalda night foods along with morasa polo.

This baked meatballs recipe is incredibly versatile and can be served a number of ways! You could use it to make…

• Spaghetti and meatballs: Pair the meatballs with a 1-pound package of spaghetti (cooked until al dente) and a batch of my favorite marinara sauce recipe to make Italian meatballs.
• Swedish meatballs: Pair with your favorite Swedish cream sauce recipe to make Swedish meatballs.

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Notes

• Chicken meat can be used instead of minced meat. Cook the chicken with onions, half of the brewed saffron, salt, and 1 glass of water. When the chicken is cooked, remove the bones from the meat, cut the meat into small pieces, and use them as decoration when serving rice. You can use chicken broth and oil on steaming rice.
• In the cities of Azerbaijan, sour cherry rice is prepared with meatballs, and in the northern cities of the country, minced meat is replaced by chicken.

• It is suitable to cook sour cherries for 10-15 minutes because the longer the time, the darker the color of the sour cherries.
• In making albaloo polo, the best time to drain the rice is when the rice kernel is not cooked.
• You can use potato slices or bread at the bottom of the pot as a tahdig.
• Rice must be cooked on low heat and a spreader flame because albaloo polo has cherry syrup; it burns quickly.
• The amount of sugar used in cherry rice pilaf depends on your personal taste.
• It is necessary to know that if you wish, you can not mix the fried meatballs with the ingredients of albaloo polo, but you can eat them separately when serving.
• Note that the rice should not be too soft when draining because the presence of sour cherries during brewing will make the rice soft and sticky.
  
• It is better not to boil the sour cherries too much so that they are not crushed.
• Heck, this dish and khoresh ghormeh sabzi are known as banquet dishes for parties and important events.

Conclusion

Albaloo Polo with Meatballs is a traditional Iranian dish, ideal for special gatherings. It combines sour cherries and minced meat, offering a unique blend of sweet and sour flavors.

This dish is typically prepared during summer with fresh cherries and can also be made with chicken instead of meatballs. The preparation involves layering cooked rice with sour cherries and fried meatballs, resulting in a visually appealing and delicious meal.