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  • Then when the bake sale girls had a late summer reunion, the main course was a sultry dish of chicken roasted with fresh peaches and rosewater, so I made a sweeter riff on zereshk polo, which is usually made with tart barberries: Persian rice topped with a mix of slivered almonds, dried cranberries, and onions, sauteed together with saffron.

    more living less blogging tannaz 2007

  • Then when the bake sale girls had a late summer reunion, the main course was a sultry dish of chicken roasted with fresh peaches and rosewater, so I made a sweeter riff on zereshk polo, which is usually made with tart barberries: Persian rice topped with a mix of slivered almonds, dried cranberries, and onions, sauteed together with saffron.

    Archive 2007-09-01 tannaz 2007

  • Here's an online Persian Grocery that sells pomegranate paste and oh my heavens zereshk berries, too!

    Fesenjan Douglas Hoffman 2006

  • Here's an online Persian Grocery that sells pomegranate paste and oh my heavens zereshk berries, too!

    Archive 2006-01-01 Douglas Hoffman 2006

  • It is grown in many parts of the globe, but I ran is the largest producer of zereshk

    Rosa's Yummy Yums Rosa's Yummy Yums 2010

  • Last edited by zereshk on Fri Dec 18, 2009 7: 03 pm, edited 2 times in total.

    phpBB.com 2009

  • Last edited by zereshk on Fri Dec 18, 2009 7: 03 pm, edited 2 times in total.

    phpBB.com zereshk 2009

  • Less familiar picks were zereshk pallow, juicy chunks of Cornish hen (kebab style) served over basmati rice topped with berries and raisins.

    NYT > Home Page By JOANNE STARKEY 2009

  • She followed her husband to the United States, and initially, “You didn’t want to go into a store—even an Indian or Arab store—and ask for ingredients that might mark you as Iranian,” she says, referring to items like zereshk, the barberries eaten by Persians in one of the many pollos, or layered rice dishes, that are a key part of the cuisine.

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

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  • currants (more correctly barberries), saffron's complement - used allegorically like raspberry (bronx cheer) in English in Persian - to be current

    April 17, 2010

  • Actually, it's barberries.

    April 17, 2010

  • OK. I see that you edited your entry. Currants tend to be larger and not as tart. Barberries are smaller and very torsh (sour/tart). I have made zereshk polou hundreds of times.

    April 17, 2010