Ingredients:
Serving 4
500 g sour cherries, seeds removed
4 cups rice
400 g minced meat
300 g onions
1 tablespoon strong brewed saffron
300 to 500 g sugar, depending on your desire
Salt and oil
Lavash ( a kind of thin loaf of bread) for Tahdig

Procedure:
Wash the rice and soak in cold and salty water 2 hours.
In a pot, mix sugar and seeded sour cherries and allow it t least 1 hour till the juice of cherries come out and penetrate into sugar. Then put it over the heat and bring to a boil. After that, reduce the heat and let it another half an hour. If there is a foam and bubbles on top remove with a spoon or spatula.
After this time, remove the cherries and put the remaining juice in a wide dish. Increase the heat and wait till the water is gone off and there is a charming , strong, sticky syrup at the end.
Grate 1 onion finely and mix with salt and minced meat in a mixing bowl. Then shape the mixture to some meatballs, walnut-sized.
Chop up 200 g of the remaining onions and saute in a pan of oil. Add in the meatballs; keep sauteing. After a half an hour when the meatballs and chopped onions are almost done and the juice of the meat is entirely gone, stir n the cooked cherries and allow to cook another 10 more minutes.
Put the rice over the heat and wait till the seeds are half-cooked. Then strain finely.
Take a proper-sized pot and grease the bottom with 3 spoons of oil. Pour in 3 spoons of water as well. Put the pieces of Lavash at the bottom. Make sure to apply Lavash as a Tahdig or the food burns easily.
Place a layer of the strained rice over the bread followed by the mixture of cherries and meatballs. Repeat this till your ingredients are all over. One layer of rice and one layer of the mixture onto the top. The top layer must be rice. Put the lid on and allow it to cook over rather high heat for 15 minutes till it starts steaming. Then pour 4 spoons of the prepared syrup along with brewed saffron all over the pot. Wrap up the lid with a clean piece of cloth tightly and close it. Lower the flame. after 45 minutes to one whole hour, the dish is ready.
Serve with plenty of vegetables and drinks like Doogh.Bon Appetit!