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

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, beef and green bean rice (loobia polo). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. 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. Persian Lubia Polo is a popular comfort dish - a mixed rice recipe layered with green beans, spiced ground meat, tomatoes, herbs, lemon and infused with saffron. The ingredients are common kitchen staples that are easily available.

Beef and green bean rice (loobia polo) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Beef and green bean rice (loobia polo) is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook beef and green bean rice (loobia polo) using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Beef and green bean rice (loobia polo):
  1. Prepare 350 grams lean minced beef
  2. Prepare 1 tbsp tumeric
  3. Take 1 onion (half diced/puréed, half chopped into strips for frying)
  4. Make ready 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. Take 1 tbsp butter
  8. Take 1 tbsp cinnamon
  9. Take 270 grams basmati rice (3 cups)
  10. Prepare 1/4 tsp saffron dissolved in 40 ml warm water (optional)
  11. Get Salt
  12. Take Pepper

You will need a nonstick pan so you can invert the dish onto a serving platter and preserve My Mother-in-law taught me how to Loobia Polow they way her Iranian mother-in-law taught her in Iran! Persian Green Bean Rice, as it is obvious from its name requires green beans and rice as its main ingredients. The traditional recipe for Loobia Polow requires boneless lamb shoulder as it's protein. However, it is more popular to be made with ground beef.

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.

The traditional recipe for Loobia Polow requires boneless lamb shoulder as it's protein. However, it is more popular to be made with ground beef. 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.

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