Persian Adas Polo (Lentil rice with raisins & meat or mushrooms) - بهترین عدس پلوی ایرانی

Adas Polo (عدس پلو) is a popular Persian (Iranian) rice dish made using the Polo/Polow technique. Rice is par-cooked (boiled and strained to wash the starch out of it). Then prepared lentil and ground meat are mixed with par-boiled rice and steamed to perfection, yielding an extremely delicious Persian classic. You can easily replace the meat with your favorite mushrooms to make it a vegetarian dish!  This dish can be made with almost any kind of meat (usually ground and sautéd ahead of time) or it can be made with mushrooms instead of meat. Adas Polo can be served as a side dish (when made with no meat) or can be the main attraction. I like to make my Adas Polo with 80/20 ground beef and serve  it with a Shirazi Salad. You can customize this recipe in many ways; add additional or alternate dried sweet fruits and nuts.
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Full recipe for Adas Polo is placed in first comment under this video.

0:00 Introduction
0:20 Three different ways to cook rice
0:50 Lentil is a Legume
2:00 Prepare, wash and brine the rice
3:55 Prepare, wash and soak the lentils
5:40 Boil the rice
6:51 Finely dice the onion and divide
7:30 Strain cooked rice and wash the starch out of it
8:45 Strain the water out of lentils
9:15 Sauté first half of onion and strained lentils
12:05 Sauté second half of onion and the ground meat
14:58 Add turmeric and raisins
15:06 Optional way to cut up the raisins for a better distribution of their sweetness
16:56 Add the cooked meat and raisin mixture to the cooked lentils
17:17 Add cooked rice, meat and lentils all together in a large bowl and stir well
18:32 Make the saffron butter sauce
20:46 Prepare lavash flat bread for Tahdig layer
22:00 Lay down oil/butter, spices, bread, the lentil rice mix and the butter saffron sauce
24:10 Steam lentil rice in the pot for 50 minutes on low temp
26:55 Adas Polo is ready after 50 minutes
27:30 Flip the rice out of the pot onto a round serving platter
28:29 Trying the delicious Adas Polo
29:54 Outtro

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