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Main dishes · Iran

Fesenjan

Duck or chicken in a thick sauce of ground walnuts and pomegranate molasses.

◷ 180 minutes♧ 6 servingsSave as cookbook PDF ↓
Fesenjan

Ingredients

For 6 servings · tick what is ready

Use the scaled ingredient list. Steps and temperatures stay unchanged; use a larger pan or dish if needed. Seasonings to taste stay to taste.

LET’S COOK

How to make it

01

Toast the walnuts in a dry pan for five minutes, cool them and grind them almost to a paste.

02

Fry the onion until golden, add the turmeric and the meat and brown it all over.

03

Lift out the meat, add the walnut paste to the pot and pour in a litre of hot water.

04

Cook the sauce an hour on a low heat, stirring every ten minutes; it darkens and starts releasing oil.

05

Add the pomegranate molasses, cinnamon, sugar and saffron and return the meat to the pot.

06

Stew an hour more, until the sauce turns dark brown and thick and oil shows at the edges.

07

Taste and adjust the balance of sour and sweet, and serve with rice and pomegranate seeds.

About this recipe

By UniTools · Source: UniTools — theunitools.com. Recipe content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Photo: stringparts · CC BY 2.0