Iranian New Year!

Traditional nooruz dinner is Baghali Shivid Polow, a rice dish with dill and lima beans served with white fish and mast khiar. But I like to feed the people! So I usually make ghormeh zabsi, but this year I did both! Yep believe it! Granted I didn't work that day so it was really nbd. The weather just turned so we ate outside on a long table with astromania flowers from trader joes in little jam jars with some sheer orange ribbon and twine with battery tealights in frosted votives. With the table set we shall discuss the food:

Ghormeh Zabsi
1 lb chopped frozen spinach (frozen but broken apart)
1 can of black eyed peas - do not use frozen, they taste weird!
1 lb sirloin cut into 1/2" cubes
1 onion diced
Couple handfulls of zabsi mix
Couple dried lemons
Lemon Juice 
1 can of chicken broth

In a large pot saute the onions and add beef, once beef is browned - add zabsi mix and black eyed peas
add one can of chicken broth and then fill with water and add that, a couple tablespoons of lemon juice (add extra water so all the beef and stuff is covered with liquid), pop in the dried lemons and cover to simmer for a couple hours.


Serve over basmati rice

Baghali Shivid Polow
2 cups basmati rice
Couple handfuls of Dill
10 oz or 1 bag frozen lima beans - thawed
Some kind of white fish - I like mahi mahi
Mast khiar - recipe below
 
Boil salted water
add 2 cups rice, boil 1/2 done, strain the rice return to the pot and mix in dill and lima beans, cover with 2 paper towels folded and lid, steam until done (I have no idea on the timing but I wait until the towels are wet around the edges).


Mast Khiar
1 qt Low fat or non fat plain yougurt
1 cucmber
dried mint, lemon juice, and salt to taste


Peel and grate cucumber and drain of juice, mix into yogurt with mint, lemon juice and salt to your liking.


Enjoy!