Beef and green bean rice (loobia polo)
Beef and green bean rice (loobia polo)

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, beef and green bean rice (loobia polo). It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baaghaali polo baa morgh (dill and fava bean rice with braised chicken) was my favorite dish during my childhood. So whenever I smell it, I'm instantly This is our family recipe for loobia polo. To put it very simply, it's made up of a mixture of ground beef, onions, green beans, and tomato paste, along.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook beef and green bean rice (loobia polo) using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Beef and green bean rice (loobia polo):
  1. Take 350 grams lean minced beef
  2. Get 1 tbsp tumeric
  3. Take 1 onion (half diced/puréed, half chopped into strips for frying)
  4. Get 4 tbsp (heaped) tomato purée
  5. Prepare 240 grams green beans
  6. Get 1 tbsp olive oil (plus enough to cover the base of a pan for crispy rice)
  7. Make ready 1 tbsp butter
  8. Take 1 tbsp cinnamon
  9. Make ready 270 grams basmati rice (3 cups)
  10. Take 1/4 tsp saffron dissolved in 40 ml warm water (optional)
  11. Make ready Salt
  12. Take Pepper

Rice is the most commonly eaten food in Iran. There are two methods of cooking rice in Iranian cuisine: Polow and Chelow. Polow consists of different kinds of vegetables or meat cooked and mixed with rice, such as Loobia Polow (Rice with Green Beans) and Adas Polow (Lentil Rice), whereas Chelow is. This low calorie green bean recipe with rice is an easy spicy rice and beans recipe with tomato.

Instructions to make Beef and green bean rice (loobia polo):
  1. Add beef and diced onion to a large pan, mix together well breaking up the beef with your spatula. Mix in salt, pepper, and turmeric. Don’t be shy with the seasoning! Put the pot on medium heat. The beef will release some of its own liquid as it’s cooking, when this liquid has evaporated cook for 2 more minutes. Finally add the tomato paste, stir and cook for 2 more minutes then remove from the heat.
  2. Gently steam green beans in a small pan with a lid for 10mins. Add a little olive oil and cook them for 2 more minutes to bring out the colour. Add beans to the beef mixture. (Optional: now fry the chopped onion in the pan used for the beans until golden, add these to the beef mix too.)
  3. Gently heat the beef/bean/onion mix over a medium heat. Add the cinnamon. Add more salt and pepper to taste. Once your happy with the flavour put to one side.
  4. Wash basmati rice thoroughly to remove the starch (rinse at least 5 times). Boil a large pan of water, lightly salted and add the rice. When half cooked (10 minutes) remove from heat, strain rice into a colander and rinse it with cold water to stop it cooking.
  5. Add enough olive oil to cover the base of the pot. Layer rice, saffron water (optional), and beef mix in the pan starting and ending with rice. Poke six holes to the bottom with the handle of a butter knife. Heat for 5-10 minutes on medium heat. When water appears on the lid stir the butter into the top layer of rice, wrap the lid in a tea towel and replace.
  6. Cook on low heat for 25-30 minutes. Your dinner is ready! Upturn the pot for dramatic effect.

Sabrina Ghayour takes a classic Persian recipe, loobia polow (rice cooked with green beans and meat), and made it veggie for a showstopping meat-free main. Loobia Polo is my absolute favourite dish! This delicious Persian rice dish with tender lamb and green beans might become your number one as well. If you ask me, delicious creamy yogurt is a must for the perfect Loobia Polo experience. For this dish you first prepare the sauce for the rice, then parboil.

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