Khoresh Gheysi Recipe _ Dried Apricot with Chicken Stew
How to prepare a sour summer stew with apricots and meat
khoresh gheysi is an authentic Iranian food that belongs to the city of Gilan. The main ingredients of this stew are dried apricots and chicken. Of course, in other cities of Iran, this dish is also prepared with meat.
Because this stew is prepared with apricots, it is part of the summer season. Because apricot fruit season is in summer.
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Khoresh Gheysi Recipe
This stew is a very delicious dish made from a combination of chicken and apricots. An interesting and delicious combination. If you are tired of repeating dishes, stay with me until the end of this article.
Ingredient:
| Onions | 2 pcs |
| Chicken thighs or chicken breasts or fillet | 6 pcs |
| Sloe | 7 pcs |
| Dried Apricot | 8 pcs |
| Saffron | 1 tbsp |
| Garlic | 2 cloves |
| Salt, black pepper, cinnamon sticks, turmeric, paprika | 1 to 2 tbsp |
| Walnut | 8 pcs |
Instruction:
1. To prepare this delicious food, we first fry the chicken with turmeric and butter. While the chickens are frying, we wash, peel, and finely chop onions.
2. We add pre-fried garlic, cinnamon sticks, and paprika to the chicken and pour the chopped onions. We fry a little until the color of the chicken turns golden, and then we let it cook.
3. Now, we add 1 liter of orange juice to the chicken and let it cook. Orange juice sweetens the taste of chicken, so if you don’t like the sweet taste, you can use half a liter of orange juice and half a liter of water instead of 1 liter of orange juice, or you can use only water.
4. we add the pre-washed dried apricots and sloes after cooking the chickens. Then, we added the saffron that we put in the ice, melted it, and colored it to the chicken and walnuts.
We let the chickens boil a little with dried apricots, sloes, and saffron so that the flavor of the seasonings enters the food.
5. Now, the delicious khoresh gheysi is ready. You can serve it in your desired dish and enjoy eating it with your family or parties. This stew is served with Persian pickles and zeytoon parvardeh.
Health benefits:
Dried apricots have the necessary calories and can provide energy to the body. Consumption of this fruit is very useful for anemic people and is rich in vitamins C and K.
Fiber is enough to help improve the functioning of the digestive system. It can prevent diseases such as diabetes and cancer.
Apricots have been cultivated in Central Asia since antiquity, and dried ones were an important commodity on the Silk Road. They could be transported over huge distances due to their long shelf life. Before the 20th century, they were ubiquitous in the Ottoman, Persian, and Russian Empires.
Notes
- The sour or mellow taste of this stew depends on you.
- You can add some plums to make this stew more sour.
- Add saffron in the last stages to give a better aroma to the food.
- Khorsht Be is also very similar to this dish, and you can serve it with Iranian rice and vegetables.
- To get the huge taste of meat, you can add a cinnamon stick while cooking the meat and remove it at the end
Conclusion
This Persian food is an authentic Iranian food full of properties and vitamins. This stew is used at gatherings and parties because of its excellent color and taste. Gheysi stew can be prepared with both meat and chicken.
