Aush Armenian cucumber recipe in Hamedan Iran
This delicious and fragrant food called aush Armenian cucumber is a local food in Hamedan from Iran, which is cooked as follows. Follow the continuation of this cooking article in Koolleh magazine.
INGREDIENTS :
- Chopped meat = 200 g
- Wheat semolina = 150 g
- Lentils = 200 g
- Cucumber = 1 kg
- Chopped garlic = 1 plant
- Onion = 3 pcs
- Dried mint = 2 tbsp
- kashk = 1 glass
- Salt and pepper = as needed
INSTRUCTION :
Soak the lentils and wheat for a few hours and then cook with 3 glasses of water.
Fry the meat with a chopped onion in some oil. After the meat changes color, add 3 glasses of water and let the meat cook on low heat.
When the meat is cooked and a glass of water is left, add the cooked lentils and semolina to the meat.
Peel a squash, grate it and squeeze the seeds. Then chop into rings.
Pour some oil in a pan to heat. Then fry the sliced cucumbers in it until it becomes a little soft. Just be careful not to crush it.
Chop onion and garlic and fry separately in oil until golden.
Fry the dried mint in oil for about 1 minute.
Put half of the fried garlic and onion with the roasted cucumber and a little salt and pepper in the aush pot until all the ingredients are cooked together. After the aush settles, add the curd in the last 5 minutes and then Remove the aush from the heat.
Garnish the cooked aush with the rest of the fried garlic and onion, hot mint and some kashk.
Hints:
Preparation time of raw materials and supplies is about 30 minutes
And the cooking time and waiting time is about 3 hours.
aush Cucumber can be served for lunch, dinner, appetizers.
It can also be eaten as iftar during Ramadan.
Note that the amount of raw materials and preparation order is suitable for 4 people.