Pomegranate paste is a popular flavouring in Persian cuisine, known as a basic ingredient of many delectable Iranian dishes with a mouth-watering aroma.
One can buy various brands of the delicious Iranian flavouring, pomegranate paste, at the supermarket, but still the homemade sauce is much more popular.
Adding flavourings to food is believed to be the most attractive part of cooking. A combination of courage and creativity would be enough to find the desirable taste by playing with the flavourings and create the yummiest foods.
Step 1
Remove seeds from pomegranate (Benefits) fruit carefully. Make sure that the pith is removed from the seeds. Put the seeds into a big pot, pour water onto them and allow it to simmer well for around 40 minutes. While the pomegranate seeds are boiling, crush them with a masher.
Step 2:
Run them through a sieve in order to strain out the seeds and collect the juice in a big pot. Crush the seeds on the strainer completely until only the kernels are left. Discard the kernels and strain the pomegranate juice several times to make sure that no kernel is remaining inside the sauce.
Step 3:
Pour the juice into the pot and stir it very well to reduce the base to a thick, paste-looking concentrate. Add salt and stir.
What matters is that the pomegranate must be juicy and red. The pomegranate seeds should not be old, rotten, decayed or dry, and its color should not be white or brown.
1. Keep in mind that pomegranate paste gets thicker after cooling down, so do not let it thicken excessively when on the stove.
2. The pomegranate paste gets too stiff if thickened too much, while it will get all moldy if it is too thin, so make sure you get it to the adequate level of thickness.
3. Avoid adding sugar or any other additives to the pomegranate paste you make at home. The reason is that doing so will cause the pomegranate paste to form molds more quickly.
4. There is an alternative method to prepare pomegranate paste and it is using a meat grinder. In this method, you should separate pomegranate seeds and put them in the meat grinder. This could be also done with certain home juice makers and industrial meat grinders. Using this method leaves no juice in the seeds so you can dispose of them.
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