• In Episode #46, co-hosts Bita and Beata provide strategies and tips to help with meal planning and prepping in anticipation of cooking during busy weeknights.  Fall means back to school for many, back to work for some, and back to routines and getting more organized for most.  Traditionally, cooking Persian food is a time and labor-intensive process taking hours and sometimes days.  With today’s modern life-styles, we need to be able to put a well-balanced, healthy meal on the table in an hour or less.   Planning tools A weekly meal planner or calendar Daily notes Grocery list   Batch cooking - cooking a larger portion of a food category with the intent to use it in multiples ways and meals, spanning across a few days and up to a week Batch cooking meats Roasting vegetables Cleaning and trimming fresh herbs   Batch cooking around a well-balanced meal Lean proteins Ancient grains (in Persian cuisine it’s mainly rice!) Fruits and vegetables   Batch cooking with Persian recipes in mind Boiling eggs for Persian potato salad | Salad Olivier Cooking chicken Chopping vegetables Making koo koo Cooking eggplant Persian stews and khoresh Soups such as lentil soup, ab ghosht, ash reshteh Ask the Beats! The Beats ask each other, what is your biggest challenge around cooking Persian food on a busy week night? Finding the time Having all of the components of the meal ready at the same time and serving them still warm Chopping vegetables Beats Cheats! What are some additional shortcuts for putting together a Persian meal on a busy night? Using canned beans Buying pre-cooked beets Ordering Persian food take out for part of the meal, for example order kabab and make the rice Resources and recipes from this episode:   All Modern Persian Food episodes can be found at: Co-host Beata Nazem Kelley blog: Co-host Bita Arabian blog:   Link to episode with “Ask the Beats” about meal planning. Episode 33: Persian Cucumbers Link to Episode 30: Tahchin   Persian Meal Planning Tips blog post How to Make Boiled Eggs in an Instant Pot Video for Roasting Whole Eggplant   Bita’s recipe for Koo Koo Sabzi Beata’s recipe for Persian Frittata Koo Koo Sabzi   Bita’s recipe for Salad Olivier   Bita’s recipe for Tah Cheen Bita’s recipe for Tahchin Bites Beata’s recipe for Persian Jeweled Tahchin   Podcast Production by Alvarez Audio
  • Release date: 2023-10-11
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