Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, cabbage rice (kalam polow shirazi). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Make rice according to Cooking Rice for Polow post. Shake pot to mix them together and add a thin layer of rice. It's called Shirazi kalam polowکلم پلو شیرازی, one of traditional classic rice dish from Shiraz. Kalma means cabbage کلم and polow پلو means rice/pilaf.
Cabbage rice (kalam polow Shirazi) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Cabbage rice (kalam polow Shirazi) is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cabbage rice (kalam polow shirazi) using 10 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Cabbage rice (kalam polow Shirazi):
- Get 200 g rice
- Get 200 g cabbage leaves (or turnip cabbage)
- Prepare 100 g fresh herbs (dill- tarragon- basil-mint-spring onion)
- Prepare 1 medium onion
- Get 300 g minced meat (beef/ lamb OR mixture of both)
- Prepare 1 tbs saffron water
- Prepare 1 tsp turmeric
- Take 1 tsp Cinnamon
- Get 1/2 tsp red pepper powder
- Get Salt and olive oil
Kalam means cabbage in the Persian language, and Polo, as you might know, means rice. Therefore, Kalam Polo is a fantastic mixture of rice and cabbage with Persian herbs and spices. There are different kinds of ingredients that you can use for Kalam Polo. However, if you want to make the Shirazi version of it, you need to know what to look for.
Steps to make Cabbage rice (kalam polow Shirazi):
- Wash the rice, soak in 4 cups of salty water for one hour before cooking.
- Shred lengthwise cabbage leaves. chop finely all herbs. peel off onion and chop it finely.
- Put a pan over a medium heat, add some olive oil and add chopped onion and allow to cook for about 10 minutes, stir it occasionally.
- Add minced meat, stir it and breaking up any large chunks with spoon. Once color of meat is brown, add some red pepper and salt and saffron water.Remove it from the heat.
- Put a pan on a medium heat and add 2tbs of olive oil, and add shredded cabbage leaves. Add all spices to cabbage leaves. cook for about 10 minutes or until have softened.
- Then, add chopped herbs to cabbage leaves. Stir it until herbs have softened, and then remove it from the heat.
- Put a pot with water on a high heat, bring it to boil. Drain salted water of rice and pour it into the boiled water. Let it to cook for about 10 minutes or until slightly is soft. Drain the rice in a colander under running water.
- In a nonstick pot, add 2tbs of olive oil,
- Place 3-4 cabbage leaves on the bottom of pot.
- Then add some of parboiled rice.
- Cover it with a layer of herbs
- And next layer with minced meat and finish with a layer of rice. Cover the pot with lid. Allow to cook on a medium heat for 15-20 minutes. Once it is cooked, remove it from the heat, and serve it with pickles, salad.
- Ingredients
There are different kinds of ingredients that you can use for Kalam Polo. However, if you want to make the Shirazi version of it, you need to know what to look for. Cabbage being the main ingredient in kalam polo, is rich in vitamin C. It's known for its ability to detoxify or purify the blood. Kalam polo is very high in vitamin C and it is low in cholesterol.
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