Azerbaijani pilaf is a real national dish of the country of the same name. There are a lot of recipes for cooking it. Some people like the more spicy version, while others like this kind of food with a lot of meat. But Azerbaijani pilaf with dried fruits leaves no one indifferent, whether it is the person who tasted it for the first time, or the sophisticated gourmet. Now we pass from words to deeds. Now we will tell all the details of the preparation of the dish.
Recipe for Sweet Pilaf with Dried Fruits
What is necessary? The following ingredients will be required for preparation:
• three glasses of long-grain rice;
• one kilogram of meat (lamb or pork);
• salt and pepper to taste;
• three hundred grams of ghee;
• two medium onions;
• three hundred grams of raisins;
• a pinch of saffron;
• three hundred grams of prunes;
• two tablespoons without a hill of sugar;
• one egg;
• three tablespoons of sour cream;
• one tablespoon of flour;
• three hundred grams of dried apricots.
How to cook?
Sweet pilaf with raisins, the recipe of which we will describe below, will be an excellent breakfast or dinner for the whole family. So, let's start cooking.
Rice should be washed well and soaked in cold water for a while, preferably at least three hours. After it should be boiled until cooked about half in salted water. In a bowl with a deep bottom, beat the egg and sour cream, add flour and thus get the dough. From it you need to cut the squares and lay out exactly on the bottom of the cauldron, in which pilaf will be prepared.
Spread the rice evenly, pour over with melted butter or milk, as you like, and set to stew on medium heat. While he is preparing, we are engaged in cooking meat. Take a piece of lamb, cut into slices and fry a little with onions, sliced rings. Add this meat to the rice. Stew prunes with dried apricots separately and serve with pilaf for taste.
Options
Sweet pilaf with dried fruits is becoming increasingly popular, and there are many options for its preparation. Often, turmeric, chestnut, or grapes are added to a familiar recipe. Very tasty is a sweet pilaf with raisins, the recipe of which we will describe a little later. Sometimes nuts are added to this dish, and together with dried fruits they create an unusual combination of taste and add piquancy to pilaf.
By the way, dried fruits can be stewed separately, as we described above, or can be added directly to rice when you boil it.
Sweet pilaf with dried fruits is not necessarily made in Azerbaijani. There are other options. One of them we will tell you now.
Bukhara raisin pilaf
To prepare a dish, we need:
• 1 kg of rice;
• 300 grams of oil and fat;
• two onions;
• 600 grams of carrots;
• a glass of raisins;
• salt.
Cooking a dish
First you need to fry the onions in a highly calcined fat, after cutting the vegetable in rings or half rings. After the onion turns red, remove it from the oil. Next, you need to again allow the fat to warm up, after which it is necessary to add carrots, chopped by straws. Then everything should be mixed thoroughly. You need to fry until the carrots change color. Next, you need to pour water into the cauldron and wait for it to boil. Then add salt and raisins.
Cook over low heat until it swells, then increase the flame and pour in rice. If the cereal is not completely covered with liquid, then you need to add it. By the end of cooking, no water should remain at all. When the rice is almost ready, you need to remove the fire to a minimum, add the onions, which we previously got, and steam for another 25 minutes.
Pilaf with raisins
To prepare this dish, you need to take the following ingredients:
• half a glass of rice;
• a third of a glass of raisins and as much dried apricots;
• two glasses of milk;
• to taste butter.
Cooking process
How to cook pilaf with dried fruits? Rinse dried apricots and raisins, if the dried apricots are large, it can be cut into pieces. Wash the rice thoroughly, put in a deep container, pour water flush with the level of the cereal. About four to five minutes to warm well in the microwave, turning on full power. Pour milk into rice, mix with dried fruits. Then you need to cover with a tight lid and warm up at the same furnace power for about three to four minutes. Then mix rice with dried apricots and raisins. After that, warm up again under a closed lid at the same time. Ready food should be allowed to brew. Before serving, you can add a little butter. Sweet pilaf with dried fruits is ready!
Prune pilaf
Prunes can be used as dried fruits for pilaf. For such a dish we will need:
• 200 grams of prunes;
• 400 grams of rice;
• salt and sugar to taste.
How to cook a dish?
Rice must be boiled until cooked. Soak prunes in moderately hot water. Then you need to strain the liquid and cut the fruit into small pieces. In the prepared rice put the prunes, butter, pour salt and sugar to taste. Next, you need to mix everything well in a bowl for cooking (a pot is suitable). Then you need to close the lid well, put in the oven for moderate heat for twenty minutes. Sweet pilaf with prunes can be served with butter.
Conclusion
In fact, to obtain a delicious meal does not require special knowledge and skills, honed over the years. Do you know what are the main rules for creating a tidbit? If not, now they will become known to you. The first is cooking with pleasure. The second is maintaining proportions. Sweet pilaf with dried fruits is a delicious dish, and the process of its preparation is long and painstaking, requiring phased steps. However, as you know, the result will exceed all expectations, because with this dish you can please not only home but also guests by decorating them with a festive table. If you have never tried sweet pilaf with dried fruits, be sure to cook and try this dish!