Pilau Rice

Pilau Rice is rice cooked with a lot of spices. It’s mainly eat with Kachumbari (Tomato and onion salsa) But can be prepared and eaten with any sauce. I will prepare Kachumbari and add it here in the next weeks when I get the time. Thanks!


Ingredients:


4 cups of normal basmati rice or jasmine rice (rinsed)
2 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 medium size onions (thinly sliced)
5 medium size potatoes (diced)
A handful of Raisins (optional)
1 lb meat cut into pieces (chicken, beef, or lamb)
5 fresh cloves garlic (minced)
1 medium size fresh ginger (minced)
A bit of salt
1 lime
4 tablespoons of pilau masala


Preparing the Broth:

• Grind garlic and ginger together to make paste and put aside.
• Clean your meat and cut to desired pieces, then add the Garlic/Ginger paste to it, add salt and a bit of lime, then mix well.
• Put it on the cooker for a short while turning the meat occasionally, and then just before it dries up add some water (this will be roughly like 5 cups of water) and put to cook.
• Let it cook until the meat is tender.
• Once done put aside (You should have some reasonable amount of liquid (broth)

Cooking Instructions:

• Choose a good size cooking pot. Add vegetable oil and fry your potatoes until light brown, then put aside.
• Take your thinly cut onions and fry until light brown as well. Then add spices. And add your meat as well, mix your spices with your meat well, once nicely mixed, add the broth.
• Let it heat up then add your rice. Stir carefully and cover to cook (heat of medium to high but not the highest) for about 5-10 minutes. Then uncover and turn the rice from bottom to top carefully then cover it back and let it simmer for about 10 minutes turning it once or twice again until dry and cooked.
• Last you can add your Raisins (if you like! not a must of course)