I only have one thing to say: I love mushrooms. Always have, always will. The day that I discovered Crimini and Portabella mushrooms my life became even better! With that said, I love Khoresht Gharch to no end. It really is yummy and super simple to make!
Ingredients
8 chicken thighs
2 medium onions
4 garlic cloves
24oz mushrooms
1 tbsp flour
2 tbsp brewed saffron
4 tbsp lemon juice
2 egg yolks
oil
salt & pepper
Small dice onion and mince garlic. Saute in some oil until golden.
Season chicken with salt and pepper. Add to onion and cook for about 3 to 4 minutes on each side. Add 1/2 cup of water, cover, and cook on medium for half hour.
In the mean time clean mushrooms (see post How to Clean Mushrooms). Cut off the bottom portion of the stem and depending on the size of each mushroom either cut into four section or nine. You can use any type of mushrooms you like, personally, I absolutely love cooking with Crimini mushrooms, which are baby portabella mushrooms.
I personally like to use all of my mushroom, including the stem. I cut the stem off then quarter, or cut into nice pieces, the cap then slice the stems.
Saute mushrooms in a thin layer of oil until their juices come out. Allow for the juices to evaporate.
Add flour to mushrooms and mix well. Season with salt and pepper.
Add brewed Saffron and lemon juice to chicken and mix well. Then add mushrooms and continue cooking uncovered for about 10 minutes. Beat egg yolks in a bowl and carefully taper in the egg yolks with a bit of the juices from the stew. Add tapered egg yolks to the pot and continue cooking for another 15 minutes. Make sure to adjust seasoning if needed.
You will have a fantastic stew in just under one hour to serve over rice!
June 17, 2011
Sanam,
You said tapered in the recipe and I believe you meant tempered. Just wanted to let you know.
This Khoresht looks awesome, I love mushrooms so much.
Aaron
June 18, 2011
Hey!
I absolutly love all your recipes, i think it’s amazing how you know all of these different dishes.
My question is how long did it take you to manage all these dishes as in to master them.
I know that when i try out a new recipe it doesn’t always turns out perfect it takes sometime,, i guess practice makes a diffrence?
So long 🙂
June 18, 2011
look so yammmmyyy iam going to try it my friend
June 19, 2011
Thank you so much for this recipe! I just made some and I’m licking the plate clean. That’s how delicious it turned out:) I made it with button mushrooms for now, but I must try this with chantarelles come autumn. The lemon gives a wonderful “zing” to the stew (I also added a couple of bay leaves for taste). This is a wonderful and easy recipe, too–I’ll be sure to recommend it to all my friends:).
June 24, 2011
Thank you for this I love your recipes, Looks yummy can’t wait to try it!:)
June 29, 2011
Hi Sanam – your stew looks fabulous. That would disappear mighty quickly over here.
I was thinking of you as I posted a chilled Persian yogurt soup with rose petals.
Hope you are well.
LL
July 3, 2011
Looks awesome, my friend. Another thing we have in common–the love of mushrooms. Sorry I’ve been MIA–where the heck did the month of June GO? Hope you’re well.
July 22, 2011
I have made this today- I’m sure hubby and baby will love it – I tried it already and it’s yummy. Another thing I lOve about most Persian cooking it’s not too spicy like Indian cooking (which is what is my origin of cooking) so perfect for my 10 month old to eat but it’s not bland at all so I can cook the same dish for everyone and we love the flavours. Btw I added fresh lime juice instead of lemon juice- what is the difference really? I though u migh know since Persian cooking requires both quite often.
March 20, 2012
I just finished cooking this dish and I love it. The saffron and lemon are just amazing with the mushrooms. My husband should be home soon to try it I can’t wait to see what he thinks. He said he has never had it before. I want to try more dishes that my husband can’t compare to his Moms.Only joking.
Thanks!
November 19, 2013
This is the first time I’ve tried one of your recipes and I was a little afraid it might be bland. Instead I’m practically rolling on the floor, it is so delicious. I can’t wait to try out more from your site. Thanks so much!