Mani Polo

The traditional dish is tried in Damghan, a desert region in Semnan Province. Usually, the high-calorie foods are prepared without meat.
Ingredients
Rice, 3 cups
Split peas, 1 glass
Sultana raisins, 250 g
Barberry, 75 g
Brewed saffron, 2 tablespoons
Fresh lamb meat or calf fillets, 300 g
calorie Polo Reshteh noodles, 200 g
Fried onions, 2 to 3 tablespoons
Salt, pepper and turmeric, for seasoning
Black caraway, 1 tsp, if desired
Oil
Ingredients for Tahdig
Brewed saffron, 1 tsp
Yogurt, 1 glass
Yolk of one egg, 1
Procedure
Drizzle 1 to 2 tablespoons oil in a pot and set over the heat till hot. Sauté stewing meat or calf fillets in oil. Add in fried onions as well as turmeric and pepper. After 1 or 2 minutes, pour in 2 glasses of water. Put the lid and allow to cook. Once the meat is done, sprinkle in salt. You can apply ground meat and make meatballs, if desired.
In a saucepan, put the split peas filled with 2 glasses of water and bring to a boil. After 2 minutes, strain. This way, its no more flatulent. Transfer to the saucepan and pour in another glass of water along with a little salt and let it cook.
Soak the rice in salted water for two hours. Put in a pot of boiling water, before straining add in Persian Reshteh noodles as well as cooked split peas. Once it simmers, do straining. This way, noodles will be soft and split peas won't crumble. Furthermore, the rice seeds won't stick together.
Pour some oil at the bottom of the pot and heat. In the meantime, take a mixing bowl and combine together yogurt, brewed saffron, the Yolk and 1 or 2 skimmers of strained rice. Mix well and put in the oil at the bottom of the pot. Place the remaining rice over and put the lid wrapped in a piece of cloth.
Put a few drops of oil in a saucepan and place the clean and washed raisins and barberry. Sauté a bit.
Once the rice is almost ready, pour in the brewed saffron.
Remove the rice to a nice platter and after each layer of rice arrange the mixture of sautéed raisins and barberry. Continue to the top. Arrange the pieces of meat all around the dish and in the center.
Cooking points,
If desired, you can add caraway to the strained rice.
The cuisine can be made without meat or chicken.