Perfect Pilau Recipe
Easy to make pilau recipe. This recipe comes with meat. Pilau is the king of traditional rice cuisine among the Swahili community. Culturally, it is a must cook dish on Friday particularly during lunch. It is enjoyed by the entire family and often served with tomatoes, onions and chillies salad commonly known as (“kachumbari” or salsa) and accompanied with a ripe banana. This tastefully spiced dish is characterized by whole potatoes and meat chunks as key ingredients.
Ingredients
3 1/3 cups (595 g) raw white rice
½ kg beef
10 seeds (1 g) cardamom, whole
5 sticks (3 g) cinnamon, whole
5 seeds (1 g) black pepper, whole
5 seeds (1 g) cloves, whole
6 tsp. (30 g) salt, iodized
2 tbsp. (11 g) cumin
4 potatoes, unpeeled, raw (840 g)
3 onions, red skinned, unpeeled, raw (387 g)
5 cloves (17 g) garlic, whole
1 root (23 g) ginger
½ green capsicum (115 g)
62 g coriander, fresh
8 ¼ cups (1788 g) water
1 ½ cups (293 g) cooking oil
Preparation 20 minutes | Cooking 1 hour | Serves 4
- Cut meat into medium size chunks.
- Boil the meat in a large cooking pot with all the water for 30 minutes, drain the water and set both meat and water aside.
- Prepare and chop onions and potatoes, grate capsicum, pound coriander, crush garlic and ginger.
- Place each prepared ingredient in small separate bowls.
- Toast cumin seeds under medium heat on a dry pan until they start to brown. Remove from the heat and grind.
- Toast cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and black pepper together until they produce an aroma. Grind them.
- Put oil into the pan used to boil the meat.
- Add onions into the hot oil and cook for 5 minutes until they brown (a golden-brown colour).
- Add ginger and garlic. Stir.
- Add all browned spices; cumin, black pepper, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom after 3 minutes.
- Add capsicum, coriander and potatoes after 1 minute and stir. Meanwhile, wash the rice.
- Add rice and salt after 3 minutes and stir in to properly mix the ingredients.
- Add water drained from boiling the meat, stir the rice and bring the mixture to boil for 25 minutes.
- Add the cooked meat to the boiling mixture. Cook for 30 minutes and serve.
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Nutrition data per 100g of recipe: Energy 895 kJ/213 kcal | Fat 9.4 g | Carbohydrates 24.8 g | Protein 6.9 g | Fibre 1.1 g Vitamin A 5 mcg | Iron 1.3 mg | Zinc 1.24 mg
