Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, ash-e-anar (split peas and pomegranate soup with meatballs). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
The Pomegranate soup from The New Persian Kitchen is outstanding with sweet and tart broth and savory beef (or lamb) meatballs. Then add the split peas and stock. Bring to a boil, cover, and reduce the heat to maintain a gentle simmer.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ash-e-anar (split peas and pomegranate soup with meatballs) using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Ash-E-Anar (Split Peas And Pomegranate Soup With Meatballs):
- Take 250 g chicken breast (minced)
- Get 3 cups yellow split peas
- Make ready 2 cups chicken stock
- Make ready 1 cup fresh parsley (chopped)
- Take 1 cup fresh mint (chopped)
- Make ready 4 cloves garlic (minced)
- Take 1 medium onion (halved and minced)
- Prepare 6 tbsp pomegranate molasses
- Take 1 tbsp turmeric powder
- Take 1/2 tbsp ground black pepper
- Make ready 2 tsp fennel seeds
- Make ready 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp chicken bouillon
- Take 5 cups water
- Make ready 3 tbs olive flaxseed oil
Throw in the split peas and stir-fry. Place your seasoned meatballs on top of the onion, garlic, split peas, and rice. Yes I almost forgot about it, but forget about that. Pomegranate Soup or Ash e Anar is a traditional Iranian soup.
Instructions to make Ash-E-Anar (Split Peas And Pomegranate Soup With Meatballs):
- On a heated pan or pot, add a tablespoon oil, toss in half the onion and fry until translucent. Add garlic and fry for about 2 minutes.
- Add the split peas and stir for 2 minutes. Add the turmeric, fennel seeds, cayenne, chicken bouillon, chicken stock and water. Cover and bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and allow to simmer for 1 hour 10 minutes.
- Combine the chicken breast, mint, parsley, onion, salt, black pepper and stir until well incorporated. Shape into small round balls (about 12 small balls). Add 2 tbsp oil in a heated pan and toss in the meatballs until they’re browned on each sides (about 8 minutes).
- Add the pomegranate molasses and meatballs to the cooking pot in step 2 (after the simmering time has been exhausted). Stir, cover and continue to simmer for additional 20 minutes.
Pomegranate is or was considered a divine fruit in ancient Persia. This recipe, a typical Persian food contains fresh herbs and pomegranate. Ash E Anar (Pomegranate soup) contains enough vitamins and protein along with minerals to put. Azarbaijan Pomegranate Soup With Meatballs (Asheh Anar) is another dish chef Hoss Zare makes for Persian New Year. This version of an Azerbaijani dish from Hoss Zaré uses French lentils instead of traditional split peas because, he says, they hold their shape better.
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