Persian cooking: recipes · Ash & soups
Ash-e Jo آش جو
Warming stew of barley, pulses and herbs, with kashk and mint oil.
Ingredients
- 750 g pearl barley
- 500 g chickpeas (soaked overnight)
- 500 g pinto beans (soaked overnight)
- 400 g brown or green lentils
- 5 tsp turmeric
- 2000 g herbs for ash (parsley, coriander, leek, spinach)
- 750 g kashk (fermented whey)
- 10 onions
- 10 tbsp dried mint
- 30 tbsp oil
- salt (to taste)
- black pepper (to taste)
Method
- Boil the barley, chickpeas and beans with 2 l water and turmeric for 1 hour.
- Add the lentils and finely chopped herbs and simmer for 45 minutes until thick. Season with salt and pepper.
- Finish with kashk.
- For the garnish fry onion rings until crisp and briefly sizzle dried mint in hot oil (nana dagh).