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How To Make Pilau Rice

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How To Make Pilau Rice
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Pilau Rice Recipe. Colourful Pilau rice perfect as the base to any Asian curry or beef carbonade. The variety makes this recipe a must. Taste our Pilau Rice recipe. Enlarge Pilau Rice Recipe. Colourful Pilau rice perfect as the base to any Asian curry or beef carbonade. The variety makes this recipe a must. Taste our Pilau Rice recipe.
Serves:
4
Preparation Time:
5 minutes
Cooking Time:
20 minutes
Total Time:
25 minutes

Step 1: Prepare the ingredients

  • 250 g long grain rice
  • 120 g cashew nuts
  • 3 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 4 cloves
  • 2 cardamom pods
  • A 2cm piece of a cinnamon stick
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • 6 shallots
  • 120 g raisins
  • 1 tsp turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp saffron threads
  • 500 ml boiling water
  • salt
  • 1 bunch of coriander for garnish
  • oil for frying
  • 1 onion for garnish
  • 1 sharp knife
  • 1 cutting board
  • 1 small pot
  • 1 colander
  • 1 thick bottomed pan
  • 1 wooden spoon

Step 2: Get started

In the pan, heat the 3 tablespoons of oil on a high temperature. Add the nuts, cloves, cardamoms, cumin seeds and cinnamon and fry for 2 minutes.

Step 3: Add the other ingredients

Add the shallots and fry for 2 minutes, till they are translucent. Add the raisins, salt and turmeric and stir for a few seconds.

Step 4: Cook the rice

Add the clean rice and stir well until all the grains have been coated with the spices. Add the boiling water. Cover the pan and turn the heat to low, allowing the rice to cook gently in its spices. This should take about 12-15 minutes.

Step 5: Prepare the garnish

Whilst the rice is cooking, chop the coriander roughly. Slice the onion and brown in a little oil. Keep both aside, ready for garnishing at the end.

Step 6: Remove the rice

When the water is absorbed in the pan, test the rice by tasting it to see if it is done. If necessary, leave for another minute or two, with the lid on.

Step 7: Garnish

Garnish with the chopped coriander and the crispy browned onion slices, thereby adding extra taste and colour to this dish.

Serve straight from the pan, with any type of curry or a beef carbonade.
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Tips & Comments
  1. manarish

    Wonderfull, I kept this basic ingrediets as an idea and used some other spices instead, but for sure we need to put that suffron. I used normal white onion instead of chelots. wonderful ....taste gorgeous.....thanks

  2. HKhalif

    I cooked this yesterday. It was easy to cook and tasted fantastic!

  3. Dude1S

    Why do english always add raisins into indian dishes, it's horrible, especially in a salaan, or pilau dish. Nice web site

  6. island_gal

    I am new to this site and it's awesome! Having the video show you step by step exactly the method is invaluable. I am going to give this pilau rice a try soon. The narrator's voice is lovely and soothing too! lol

  7. silviyaisaac

    i like the way simplyfied complicated dish very easy to make now...

  8. shosweet

    by adding carrots and pigeon peas...taste instead of nuts...u get the caribbean taste

  10. flipper36

    ok going to try the pilau rice saturday night for 8 friends, will post back with feedback