Feb 01

This Aash is very similar to Aash-e Reshteh, except in place of reshteh you use jo (barley). You should definitely make this Aash its really filling and tasty!

Aash e Jo

Aash e Jo

Ingredients (10-12 servings):
250 grams pearled barley
200 grams sabzi which is made up of: parsley, tareh (can use chives or ends of green onions instead), spinach, cilantro, dill (shevid) — use one bunch of each, or if using dry dill use 1 tablespoon
750 grams beans made up of: garbanzo beans (nokhod), white beans, kidney beans, and lentils
1 cup rice
5 tablespoons fried onion
3 - 4 cups Kashk
salt and pepper (desired amount)
turmeric 1 tablespoon

Directions:
Its best to soak the beans for a few hours prior to cooking the Aash since this will speed up the cooking time. Also, soak the rice in water after rinsing the rice a few times.

In a large pot add the fried onions (or you can fry them at this time in the pot with a tiny bit of oil), the beans (after draining out the water they were soaking in), and the turmeric. Saute the ingredients for a few minutes then add about 5 cups of water, cover, and leave on medium heat for contents to cook for approximately 30 minutes. After 30 minutes add the barley and the rice and mix the ingredients together, then cover the pot again and place on medium low heat. Every now and then stir the aash. Then clean and chop up the sabzi and add to the aash.

aash-e-jo

The aash will need to cook for a couple hours before it is ready. I had the aash cooking between approximately 6 - 7 hours before it was thickened and completely ready (ja oftadeh).

After it is prepared remove the aash from the heat and add part of the kashk. When you are serving the aash you can add some more kashk on top and then place some on the table for guests to add extra as desired to their bowl. You can also add some fried onions and fried mint to the top of the kashk you are serving as well.

Enjoy!! :)

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Sep 15

Many times Abgoosht is referred to as Dizi, but this has to do with the dish it is cooked in. For many of us we use pots, slow cookers, or even pressure cookers for convenience and the amount of time we have. The traditional recipe for Abgoosht is what I am sharing with you here.

goosht-Abgoosht

Ingredients:
Lamb meat ba ostokhan (with bones), or other meat as long as it has bones.
3-4 potatoes (depending on size of potatoes)
1 medium onion
Salt/Pepper
Turmeric
1 cup Nokhod (garbanzo beans)
1 cup lobiya sefid (white beans)
1-2 Limoo Amani (dried limes)
1 Tablespoon tomato paste
Lemon Juice (optional)
Cinnamon

Directions:

These directions are specific to a pressure cooker, but may be modified for a regular pot or slow cooker.

tilit-Abgoosht

Place the meat, onion, white beans, garbanzo beans, and dried lime(s) in the pressure cooker. Pour in water to cover everything, you may just want to pour in the water used to soak the beans and maybe some more if its not enough. Cover the pot and place it on med. heat. Once it steams you can release some of the steam, but allow it to stay on the stove for 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes you will open the pressure cooker (steam will need to be released first if not done so completely). Add the washed potatoes (do not peel the skin off yet), tomato paste, and a little bit of cinnamon. At this time if you feel it is necessary you can add some lemon juice.
Cover the pressure cooker again and allow everything to cook for another 15 minutes on med. heat (it should steam up). Once it has steamed up, let the steam out and open up the pressure cooker.
When ready to serve you will pour the water into a separate bowl and then prepare the meat to be mashed up.

Preparing the Mashed meat (goosht koobideh):
You will peel the skin off the potatoes, clean the meat off the bones, and take out the dried limes. Mash the meat, potatoes (maybe not all the potatoes), and beans all together. Then you can pour some of the water on it is you desire. It is ready to eat with bread.

Preparing the tilit (water/bread):
You will want to tear up pieces of pita or barbari bread (or a combination) and pour the water over the bread. The bread pieces become soaked and this part of Abgoosht is called Tilit.

Note: The maghz (center) of the bones is really good. When I was young my siblings and I used to fight over who gets to eat it…in fact we still do. So if you want to extract it after you are separating everything, beat the contents of the bone out.

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