Rice with Toasted Noodles (Reshteh Polow رشته پلو)
Rice with Toasted Noodles (Reshteh Polow رشته پلو)

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Great recipe for Rice with Toasted Noodles (Reshteh Polow رشته پلو). There are two main dishes that are traditionally served in the evening of the Persian new year (Nowruz). One of them is Reshteh polow.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have rice with toasted noodles (reshteh polow رشته پلو) using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Rice with Toasted Noodles (Reshteh Polow رشته پلو):
  1. Take 200 g rice
  2. Get 100 g toasted noodles (reshteh polowei)
  3. Prepare 1 medium onion
  4. Get 1 cup raisins
  5. Get 1 tsp orange skin, finely chopped
  6. Prepare 1 cup dates
  7. Make ready 2 tbsp saffron water
  8. Make ready to taste Salt
  9. Get 1 slice flat bread
  10. Make ready Vegetable oil

Reshteh Polo (رشته پلو, Noodle Rice) Print Recipe. Symbolic of a new beginning in life. Reshteh (noodles) also means string and eating reshteh polow, preferably on the eve of Eid-e Nowruz, helps sar-reshteh kar dastet biad which means to grab hold of your your life and destiny and to attain. In Iranian/Persian culture, noodles are symbolic of new beginnings in life.

Steps to make Rice with Toasted Noodles (Reshteh Polow رشته پلو):
  1. Peel off onion. Chop it finely. Saute it in a pan for 5 minutes over a medium heat. Add raisins and orange skin to onion and cook it for 2-3 minutes more. Set it aside.
  2. Remove pits from dates. Mash them with hand or put them into a microwave and add 1 tbs water and microwave for 20 seconds. Then, makes date pastes as size of small balls. Saute in the pan for 2-3 minutes. Set aside.
  3. Place the rice in a bowl and wash the rice with cold water and drain it. Then fill the bowl with 4 cups of cold water, add 3 tbs of salt and rice. Let it soak for an hour. Bring water to boil in a pot. Drain soaked rice and pour it into the pot. Let it to cook for about 5 minutes. Break noodles into small pieces and add toasted noodles to the boiled rice and let it to cook for 5 minutes more.Then, pour boiled rice mixture into a strainer and rinse under running water.
  4. Put the pot on the heat. Add 3 tbs of Olive oil to the pot. Cover bottom of pot with a slice of flat bread for making tahdig. Place the rice-noodle top of the bread. Cover the pot with a lid. Allow to cook for 20 minutes over how heat.
  5. Mix it. Keep it for garnishing rice. - Serve the rice with fried raisins and dates. This meal goes very well with pickles as well. - Enjoy1.
  6. Ingredients

In the old times, it was believed that noodles can bring good fortune and make new endeavors. Reshteh polo is a Persian dish of rice and noodles that is customarily eaten during Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Some families have it on the eve and others, for dinner on the day itself. Similar noodle and rice dishes, as well as couscous and rice, are to be found all over the region, like the Lebanese Riz bi Sha'rieh. Sauté onion until nice and golden.

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