It must have happened to you that sometimes you are tired of cooking repetitive dishes and you have an idea for different dishes in your mind. If you are one of those people who are interested in trying new and delicious flavors, Piazo is a great choice for you.
Piazo is an Iranian traditional dish that comes from Zanjan (that is a city in Iran). Piazo means onion in Farsi; this food is cooked with onion, meat, and other new and interesting ingredients. Let’s start to cook that for our next meal.
Ingredients:
. 300g ground meat
. 1 cup lentils
. 1 cup split peas
. 1 cup dried apricots and plums
. 2 tablespoons ground walnuts
. 1 medium onion
. 2 tablespoons tomato paste
. 2 potatoes, chopped
. 1 or 2 tablespoons mint and tarragon – optional
. Salt, pepper, and turmeric to taste
. Oil
For preparing Piazo, wash the apricots and plums perfectly to clean them for your cooking, then soak them in a bowl of warm water for several hours. After that pour the lentils and split peas in a pot and cook them with water. On the other hand, in a suitable pot pour a little oil and add chopped onion to the pot and fry the chopped onion.
When the onion turns golden add ground meat to the pot and stir well to combine, add salt, pepper, and turmeric to the combination of onion and meat after a while add tomato paste to the pot and fry all ingredients together. During this time, lentils and split peas are cooked so that add them to the mixture of onion and meat. Again fry all ingredients well, following that pour the amount of water for cooking, and mix the taste of meat, tomato paste, and beans. Be careful that the flame should be in the medium level.
After some time, chop 2 potatoes and add them to the pot to cook with feed, at this stage allow the ingredients in the pot to thicken completely, at the end of cooking add soaked plums and apricots to the pot to make the food taste sour. The key is you should check the feed water from time to time so that it does not burn. When the feed completely cooked your Piazo is ready.
Side dishes:
Bread
you can serve this tasty feed with fresh and flavorful bread
Sabzi Khordan
Fresh herbs are the best option for serving with Piazo
Torshi
You can serve different types of pickles with your dish
