Pilaf
A dish that leans on cooking oil and long grain rice.
contains meat
Ingredients
US
Metric
- ⅝ cup cooking oil
- 2¼ lb long grain rice
- 3⅓ lb meat (lamb or any other kind of meat)
- 1⅛ lb onions
- 1⅛ lb carrots
- 2 tbsp salt
- 5 cloves of garlic
- raisins, cardamom, paprika, coriander, cinnamon, cumin, turmeric (all optional)
Steps
- Put the cooking oil in a cauldron and heat it until the oil is boiling, add a head of onion until it is black, then throw it out.
- Throw coarsely chopped meat into the cauldron and let it boil until it's golden brown, then add a pinch of salt.
- Add the chopped onions, then wait 2 minutes and add the sliced carrots, boil for another 2 minutes.
- Add 2⅛ cups of water diluted with tomato paste, boil for 5 minutes.
- Rinse the rice and put it into the cauldron but do not mix.
- Add another 2⅛ cups of water diluted with tomato paste and wait until it is boiling.
- Reduce the heat to minimum, then add two table spoons of salt.
- Close the cauldron and leave it on low heat for 1.5-2 hours.
- 1 hour before it is ready(or when you can't see water above the rice), add the garlic.
- You can now turn over the rice if it is undercooked and add some raisins.
- Keep boiling until all water is evaporated.
Nutrition (estimated, per serving)
| Calories | 461 |
|---|---|
| Protein | 26.8 g |
| Fat | 12.3 g |
| Carbs | 60.1 g |
| Fiber | 2.4 g |
| Sodium | 1095 mg |
Source
based.cooking (community recipes, public domain) — unlicense