Pilaf in a pressure cooker is not difficult to cook. What is needed for this?
Observe the same phases and cooking modes that are provided for by the technology for making this dish in an ordinary cauldron. Then the pilaf in the Redmond-4504 pressure cooker will turn out to be just as tender and aromatic.
Selection of ingredients and overview of cooking phases
The classic recipes for this dish always contain lamb. Better if it is a loin on the bone. It must be taken in an amount of from half a kilogram. You can cook with other, less fatty meat. If you also reduce the amount of vegetable oil, you will get diet pilaf in a pressure cooker. But in this case, you still have to follow the sequence of actions:
- first prepare the meat by frying;
- then make a vegetable dressing (bearing the authentic name "zirvak");
- Pour the aforementioned components with water, add rice and bring the pilaf in the pressure cooker to readiness.
We will try to cook this dish in your existing kitchen unit. If we choose the right regimes, then pilaf in a pressure cooker or multicooker will turn out to be excellent. You should also consider some of the subtleties. For example, simply fried meat in butter will turn out tough, and if you add it to the rice half-baked and just cook longer, then the cereal will most likely come out overcooked. As a way out of this situation, we can name a preliminary short stewing of lamb in broth or ordinary water.
Getting down to cooking
Cut mutton in portions into large pieces, clean it of all veins and films. Put the meat in a bowl of a pressure cooker, pour two glasses of water with salt and, having closed the lid, set the mode "Cook / Stew". Pressure number 3. Time must be set 40 minutes. If you do this, then the resulting meat will be tasty, soft, not fully cooked.
Now you should prepare the so-called "zirvak". To do this, in a pressure cooker set to "Baking", you need to pour vegetable oil, heat it. Put the stewed lamb on hot fat , after drying it, fry until crisp. Cut onions and carrots (4 pieces each) into large strips. Add to the meat, stew. Then put 2 tsp. spices. Special mixes for pilaf or grill are suitable. When the vegetables soften and the liquid component of the dish evaporates, it is time to lay rice (one and a half glasses) and garlic (one head). By the way, cereals need to be taken not steamed. Then the pilaf in the Unit pressure cooker will get the desired consistency, and the grains will not be too soft. Pour the cereal with water. Note that its level should be one and a half centimeters above the level of rice. Place the head of garlic in the center of the bowl. Try the resulting liquid to taste and, if necessary, add salt. Now, having closed the lid, it is necessary to set the “Porridge” mode, the first level, time - half an hour. After the signal, do not open the vessel immediately, wait 10 minutes. Then mix well, at the same time checking the readiness of the rice, and put it on the plates, serving a salad of freshly chopped fresh vegetables or sauerkraut to the dish.