Persian jeweled rice

This lovely, Persian-style jeweled rice dish serves a crowd and will delight and impress everyone that tries it. Best of all, this dazzling beauty is a lot easier to make than you think and will make the perfect addition to any table.

Persian Jeweled rice (Javaher polo), also known as Bride’s rice, or Morasah rice, is a popular dish across all Iran. Traditionally served in large amounts at weddings, festivals, family gatherings, and new year’s celebrations. It usually served on a big round white copper tray by placing the steamed

Persian/Iranian Recipes

Morasa Polo is a gorgeous Persian jewelled rice dish with a delightful sweet and sour taste. This fragrant and beautiful dish doesn’t only look stunning, it tastes heavenly too! A variation of this jewelled rice dish is Shirin Polo, which translates to “sweet rice”. The only difference is that Mora

A magnificent Persian rice dish called jeweled rice (javaher polow) fit for a wedding banquet or a Thanksgiving table. This rice is studded with slivered pistachios (representing emeralds), almonds, barberries (representing rubies), slivers of sweetened orange and carrot peel and golden raisins. I used Najmieh Batmanglij’s New Food of Life directions for preparing the ingredients...Read More »

Persian Jeweled Rice is a gluten free, vegan rice pilaf topped with fruits and nuts ~ a show stopping side for Thanksgiving and Christmas!

Jeweled Rice recipe: This is as delicious as it is gorgeous.

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There's a mighty long list of ingredients in this stunning dish. But once you start reading, you'll find that most ingredients are pantry items. And therein lies the beauty of this magnificent, flexible centrepiece. This recipe has a nice flow to it. Make the kofta mixture first, then prepare the jewelled rice. Form the kofta balls while the rice is cooking, then cook the koftas while the rice is resting. Then you can plate it up while everything is piping hot!

This Persian-Style Jeweled Rice is lush with its intriguing aromatic spices and fruits, and is the perfect accompaniment for many entrees or it can be a vegetarian main course.