Estamboli Polo

Estamboli Polo is very delicious and easy to make a dish of rice from Persian cuisine. To make it you need rice and tomatoes. Moreover, you can add potatoes and ground meat in some regions.

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Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Persian

Keyword: Estamboli Polo

Prep Time: 20

Cook Time: 45

Servings: people

Calories: 201kcal

Ingredients

3 cups of Persian or Basmati rice
1 big onion
2 big tomatoes
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon pepper
½ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoon tomato paste
2 potatoes (optional)
7 oz ground beef (optional)
1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Instructions

Slice or dice the onion and fry it with oil
Add turmeric
Add tomato paste and salt and pepper.
Dice and fry the potatoes
Shred onion to the beef and make meatballs
Fry the meatballs
Prepare the rice in Polo style, and after you boiled it, rinse it and mix the tomato sauce and potatoes with it.
Pout them into a pot and cover the pot’s lid with a piece of cloth.
Let them cook for 45 minutes.

Notes

Uniqop’s Advice:

Add 2 oz butter to the tomatoes while cooking for a better taste.
Instead of making rice in Polo style, make it like Kateh.
If you do not use meat, you can use fried eggs as a delicious garnish.
If you cook it for 1 hour on low heat, you can have a crust of Estamboli at the end.
Even if you omit the beef, do not skip the potatoes.

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