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Befarmaeed Sham @azreen's : Zereshk Polow ba Morgh (Barberry Rice with Chicken)

Chicken

Ingredients:

~ Half chicken cut into 2

~ 1 large onion diced

~ 1 tbsp tomato paste

~ 1 tsp turmeric powder

~ 1 cinnamon stick, 1 star anise, 2 clove, 2 cardamom

~ Juice of 1 lime

~ Salt and pepper to taste

~ Water

~ Oil

Methods:

1. Heat oil with cinnamon stick, star anise, clove and cardamom until fragrant smell arise. Saute onion until golden brown, add in chicken, sprinkle turmeric and pepper. Add in also tomato paste.

2. Add in water, let it boil. When boil, slow heat, close lid and simmer for about 30minutes.

3. After 30 minutes, the amount of liquid should be decrease and thicker. Add in juuice of lime.

4. Let it simmer another 15 minutes. Taste with salt. Done

Rice

Ingredients:

~ 1 half cup of rice, soak with some salt at least 20 minutes

~ A handful of barberry (zereshk), soak in water

~ 2 tbsp saffron liquid

~ 1 tbsp sugar

~ Oil

~ Bread for tahdig

Methods:

1. Cook rice according to Persian rice recipe. Can be found here.

2. In a pan with low heat, heat some oil, add in zereshk and sugar. The sugar will balance the sourish taste of zereshk. 

3. Stir for about 1 minute or until the zereshk plump up.

To serve the rice, put the cooked rice on a plate, top with some rice combined with saffron liquid and on top of that sprinkle the zereshk. Previously I put aside the zereshk because of the sour taste. But not anymore because I learned that zereshk is full of vitamins and my way to lessened the sour is by adding extra sugar. This time to balance the food, I made shalad shirazi too! And look the tahdig, it was yummy because I used thin lavash breaf.

Khoda hafez!

Mantou..or lupush.. or magnae..

Whatever it is called, it refers to the long dress i wear on below photo. All of my collections are from iran. I love to wear mantou becoz it covers my body well. Suit with hijab style. Here in malaysia, it is not easy to find this kind of dress. If have, it usually using thick material meant for winter and it is pricey. The best time to buy mantou in iran for malaysia wearing purpose is during summer and autumn bcoz the material is meant to cope with hot weather.

Some of my friends love to have mantou. Maybe i can start my business then!

Sobhaneh (Breakfast) azreen's style 1; chicken and button mushroom sandwich (sandwich -e- morgh ba gharch)

Let me share some farsi words relating to "eat":

1. Sobhaneh: breakfast . The way i remember this word at first was "sobh" = subuh which means dusk in malay
2. Nahar: lunch; i hava a friend named nahar but i dont remember him to remember this word T___T
3. Sham: dinner.

This is my favourite sobhane menu;

Ingredients:
1. One medium onion slice
2. Some button mushroom, slice
3. Chicken breast which i boil with onion,turmeric,salt an pepper for an hour. Cool it down and cut into small pieces. Normally i made this in advance and keep in freezer in small batches, so that everytime i wana use it i just take one batch and defrost.
4. Salt and pepper
5. Some mozarella cheese
6. Bread

Methods:
1. In a pan, saute onion until golden, add in mushroom salt n pepper. Once the mushroom cooked, turn off heat.
2. On bread, put on some chicken, mushroom and top with mozarella.
3. Toast until golden brown at each sides.

Yummy..

Befarmaeed sham @azreen's

1. Persian rice with potato tahdig (berenj ba sibzamini tahdig)
2. Oven baked grouper thai style (bbq mahi)
3. Fresh spinach with meatballs soup (soup-e-esfanaj ba gusht-e-ghelgeli)
4. Crispy fried chicken wings (bala morgh sorkh karde)

Befarmaeed sham..

Oreo Cheese Cake (Cake Panir ba Biscuit Oreo)

I made this cake last week. I gave some to bff but unfortunately he couldnt consume panir (cheese) for the time being because of some health problem. Let me write the recipe for my reference later..

Ingredients:

~ 500 g cream cheese

~ 1 cup of yogurt

~ 2 eggs

~ 1 cup of castor sugar

~ 1 cup of butter

~ 30 oreo biscuits (but i substituted with cream-o brand)

~ 1/2 tspn vanilla extract

Methods:

1. Cover bottom of your baking tin with aluminium wrap to make sure water will not enter into the mixture. 

2. Separate the oreo fiiling. Divide the biscuits onto 3 parts. 1 at the left side, 15 biscuits for the cake crust, 5 biscuit for decoration and another 10 to mix with the cake mixture.

3. Melt butter

4. Finely crush the 15 biscuits.

5. Mix with butter and press to the bottom of baking tin for crust.

6. Whisk cream cheese, sugar and vanilla extract. Start with medium speed after 2-3 minutes change to fast speed until the mixture become fluffy

7. Add in egg one by one (no picture)

8. Add in roughly crushed oreo.

9. Decorate the cake as u wish. This time I put some oreo on top and the pattern i piped some chocolate extract and just prick the line with chopstick.

10. Steam bake for about 1 hour

11. After 1 hour, dont directly take the cake outside oven. Open the lid and let the cake cool down inside for about 30 minutes. After that, transfer to chill at refrigerator. Leave t least 4 hours before consume.

This is the result. Lets dig!

Tahchin (Saffron Layered Rice Cake) and Persian song by Malay child

I am drooling over Persian foods. Looking back at my photo folder which I titled "Ghazaha" makes me salivating. I can't wait for bff to come so that I can cook Persian meals. The reason I did not cook Persian foods when he's faraway is who's gonna eat? My family do not like it much. If I want to cook Persian foods for my family, the best choice is kebabs. Going to restaurant is not my choice because I feel awkward to walk into Iranian restaurant without bff as always. Plus everybody that knows bff will ask me questions about bff; when he will come back etc etc.

Above is tahchin which I really love and you can only find it in home as until now I never seen any in restaurants' menu. The crust (tahdig) drive me crazy!! The recipe can be found here Tahchin.

Before I end, here is my niece video mimicking mano bebaksh song from Kamran Hooman. Enjoyyy..

Khorak-e-kufteh ghelgheli (Meatballs stew)

Ingredients:
~ 2 medium onions
~ 500g minced meat
~ 1 medium carrot, sliced into thin rounds
~ 1 tsp turmeric
~ 2 medium potatoes, diced medium size
~ 1 tbsp tomato paste
~ oil
~ pepper, salt to taste

Methods:
1. For meatballs; grate 1 onion and mix with minced meat, salt and pepper. Roll into small meatballs, set aside
2. Heat oil in a pan, fry diced onion until golden, add turmeric, stir once.
3. Add in 3 cups of boiling water, slide the meatballs and carrot in. Simmer over low heat for an hour. Taste with salt and pepper.
4. After an hour, add in tomato paste and potato and let it simmer again for an hour, or until the sauce thickened.

Enjoyy..:)