Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, special pilau rice. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Pilau is commonly known as a Kenyan delicacy but this rice dish is commonly eaten all around East Africa. Just as Jollof rice is the most famous and most common dish of West Africa, so is pilau for the East Africans. This dish is usually served during special occasions.
Special Pilau Rice is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Special Pilau Rice is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook special pilau rice using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Special Pilau Rice:
- Make ready 8 oz basmati rice
- Prepare 2 vegetable stock cubes
- Get 16 fl oz boiling water (for the vegetable stock cubes)
- Get 3 pinches cloves
- Get 6 cardamom pods
- Make ready 1/2 tsp turmeric
- Get 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare Few strands of saffron
- Take 1-2 large cloves garlic
- Make ready 1 tbsp olive oil
Pilau can be made with or without meat. Pilau also freezes well and can be frozen for several months. Sharon's tips: The consistency of this pilau is somewhat like a thick stew and is best served in a bowl. Be sure to use long-grain rice in this recipe.
Steps to make Special Pilau Rice:
- Dice up the onions and garlic cloves.
- Heat up pan with olive oil. Add onions on low heat and cook until soft, not brown, stirring regularly. Add garlic and cook for 5 minutes.
- Add in all the spices and fry for 2 minutes, while stirring.
- Add rice (rinsed) and stir in.
- Add stock and boiling water mixture and bring to a boil. Then reduce and simmer uncovered for 7 minutes.
- Transfer to ovenproof dish if you need to. Cover with lid and place in the oven at 100 C for 20 minutes.
- Fluff rice with fork and remove cardamom pods before serving.
Short-grain rice is sticky when cooked and best used to make sushi, and medium-grain is best to use in making risotto. Make the side dish extra special with this rice dish. It is better then any store bought package mix.—Barianne Wilson, Falfurrias, Texas Rice Pilaf Recipe photo by Taste of Home Delia's Spiced Pilau Rice recipe. I've always loved the fragrant flavour of spiced pilau rice, and could easily eat it just on it's own, adding nuts to give it some crunch. However, it's also an excellent accompaniment to any spiced or curried dish.
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