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How to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Simple Pilau

 ·  ☕ 5 min read  ·  ✍️ Mae Lamb

Simple Pilau
Simple Pilau

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, simple pilau. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Simple Pilau is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Simple Pilau is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

Pilau is a specialty along the Swahili Coast in which Rice is flavored with spices and cooked in a well seasoned broth of Meat, Poultry or Fish. It is also a festive Dish which never misses at every special occasion. It is usually cooked on special occasions and holidays but can also be enjoyed as an everyday meal. EASY PILAU RECIPE Hey Lovelies, Here is a fool proof simple cheat's way of cooking Pilau.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have simple pilau using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Simple Pilau:
  1. Take 2 cups white rice
  2. Get 500 gms beef with bone
  3. Get 3 cups beef stock
  4. Get 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  5. Make ready 3 large onions
  6. Take 8 garlic cloves crushed
  7. Make ready 2 teaspoons Pilau masala
  8. Make ready 1 teaspoon cardamom powder
  9. Prepare 1 teaspoon ginger
  10. Prepare Salt

I always order it when we get an Indian takeaway or supermarket ready-made curry (yes I do like a break from cooking, occasionally!) Easy Pilau Rice. Pilau (or pilaf) rice is so much more interesting than plain boiled rice. Spiced with cardamom, cumin, turmeric, cinnamon and bay leaves, it's a delicious accompaniment to both spiced, curry dishes and un-spiced, savoury main dishes. Now scroll down to check out the simple pilau masala recipes we have provided for you.

Steps to make Simple Pilau:
  1. Cut up beef into big cubes. The size should be bigger than the size for beef stew. Put in a pressure cooker or cooking pot with 1 teaspoon of ginger and boil until meat is tender but not falling apart. Remove the meat from the stock and save the stock for later
  2. Peel and cut the onions in half and then finely slice them into semi circles.
  3. Peel and crush/pound the garlic in a pestle and mortar or use a garlic press if you have
  4. In a cooking pot pour in the vegetable oil and let it heat up slightly before putting in the onions. Fry the onions on high heat stirring frequently
  5. When the onions turn transluscent, add the spices and stir to coat in the oil. Reduce the heat/flame to medium to avoid the spices burning and becoming bitter. Keep stirring while allowing the spices to cook in the oil (about 2 minutes)
  6. When the onions start turning a nice pale golden brown, add the boiled beef (without the stock) and salt to your desired taste and stir to mix everything together. Cover and reduce the heat to medium. (At this point you can wash the rice). Keep checking and stirring the meat every so often until it turns brown (should take about 15 minutes)
  7. Once the beef has browned, create some space in the middle of the pot and put in the crushed garlic. Let the garlic cook in the oil for about 30 seconds before stirring it into the meat. Stir for another 30 seconds
  8. Add the washed rice and stir to coat it in the beef and spices. Make sure everything has mixed well. Cover and keep checking every 2-3 minutes, stirring each time you check.
  9. After about 20 minutes the rice will have turned translucent and everything will have been incorporated well together.
  10. Switch on the oven to 100 degrees. Reheat the beef stock in a pot and measure out 3 cups. Pour the stock into the rice mixture and stir to mix everything together. Turn up the heat to medium high and let it come to a boil and then reduce to medium. Cover and let it cook until the stock has completely reduced. Reduce the heat to low then cover the pot with foil then with the lid for another 5 minutes. After 5 minutes transfer the pot to the oven (lower rack) and let it finish cooking (30 minutes)
  11. Serve the pilau when still hot.

Spiced with cardamom, cumin, turmeric, cinnamon and bay leaves, it's a delicious accompaniment to both spiced, curry dishes and un-spiced, savoury main dishes. Now scroll down to check out the simple pilau masala recipes we have provided for you. How to cook rice with pilau masala- Simple chicken pilau recipe. Quick and very easy chicken pilau recipe you will definitely love. what makes pilau brown? The brown color of the pilau comes from caramelizing the onions, browning the meat until it becomes really browned.

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