Pilaf

A dish that leans on cooking oil and long grain rice.

Uzbek

contains meat

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Ingredients

Units: 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

  1. 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.
  2. Throw coarsely chopped meat into the cauldron and let it boil until it's golden brown, then add a pinch of salt.
  3. Add the chopped onions, then wait 2 minutes and add the sliced carrots, boil for another 2 minutes.
  4. Add 2⅛ cups of water diluted with tomato paste, boil for 5 minutes.
  5. Rinse the rice and put it into the cauldron but do not mix.
  6. Add another 2⅛ cups of water diluted with tomato paste and wait until it is boiling.
  7. Reduce the heat to minimum, then add two table spoons of salt.
  8. Close the cauldron and leave it on low heat for 1.5-2 hours.
  9. 1 hour before it is ready(or when you can't see water above the rice), add the garlic.
  10. You can now turn over the rice if it is undercooked and add some raisins.
  11. Keep boiling until all water is evaporated.
Nutrition (estimated, per serving)
Calories461
Protein26.8 g
Fat12.3 g
Carbs60.1 g
Fiber2.4 g
Sodium1095 mg

Source

based.cooking (community recipes, public domain) — unlicense