Ash-e Anar

Description

Ash-e Anar - Authentic recipe from Iran. Ready in 80 min. Try it now!

1. 1

   Prepare 250 g beef (or small meatballs) and 100 g rice. Add 200 g pomegranate (juice/seeds). Prepare plenty of herbs and yellow split peas.

   ⏱️ approx. 12 min

   💡 Tip: Ash-e Anar is a festive Persian pomegranate soup — a thick, sweet-and-sour soup made with pomegranate, rice, legumes, herbs, and meatballs. Sweet-and-sour, herbaceous, hearty, and festive. A celebratory ash (for the Yalda festival).

2. 2

   Simmer the rice, split peas, herbs, and meatballs, then add pomegranate juice/pulp and often pomegranate molasses.

   ⏱️ approx. 12 min

   💡 Tip: Ash-e Anar ('pomegranate soup') is a festive Persian ash — made with pomegranate juice/pulp and seeds (sweet-and-sour, red), rice, yellow split peas, plenty of herbs, and small meatballs (koofteh), often finished with pomegranate molasses and a little sugar (sweet-and-sour balance). Sweet-and-sour, herbaceous, hearty, and festive. Finished with a mint tarka. Sweet-and-sour and herbaceous.

3. 3

   Season with salt, pomegranate molasses, and sugar (sweet-and-sour balance), then garnish with mint oil.

   ⏱️ approx. 12 min

   💡 Tip: Ash-e Anar is served hot (with a mint oil tarka and pomegranate seeds) as a festive Persian pomegranate soup. Sweet-and-sour and festive. A celebratory ash (for the Yalda festival).