There are a lot of recipes for pilaf. It is cooked with various types of meat and cereals. The main ingredient is rice, but chickpeas, pumpkin or beans can also be added to it. Let's look at a few cooking methods.
Dagestani pilaf with beans
To prepare it, we need:
- Lamb - 500 grams.
- Rice - two glasses.
- Red beans - 300 grams.
- Ghee - 200 grams.
- Salt, ground black pepper - to your taste.
- Garlic - four cloves.
- Water boiling water - two glasses.
- Greens - to your taste.
The recipe for pilaf with beans is very simple, and the dish is prepared very easily:
- Soak the beans for eight hours, after which it needs to be boiled and cooled.
- Rinse the rice several times, boil and, throwing it in a colander, rinse with hot boiled water.
- Rinse the meat, remove the films and veins. Cut it into portioned slices.
- Place 100 grams of melted butter in a cauldron, fry the lamb on it until golden brown. After that, pour boiling water with boiling water and cook for about 30 minutes. During cooking, you can add water.
- After half an hour, we send rice, beans and a mixture of the remaining oil to the meat with garlic and spices passed through the press. To mix everything.
- Close the lid, put a slow fire and simmer everything for half an hour.
Pilaf with beans is ready. Arrange it on plates and decorate with greens. This fragrant and simple dish will appeal to everyone.
Pilaf with beans and pumpkin
This is a very unusual recipe, it is suitable for those who are fasting or dieting. Need such products:
- Rice - one and a half glasses.
- Beans - one glass.
- Pumpkin - 350 grams.
- Tomato paste - one tablespoon.
- Onions - one large head.
- Barberry, zira, coriander - half a teaspoon.
- Bay leaf - a pair of pieces.
- Vegetable oil - 50 milliliters.
- Salt is for your taste.
The algorithm for preparing pilaf with beans and pumpkin is as follows:
- Soak the beans overnight. Then rinse, fill with cold water, salt and boil. Cooking time is about two hours.
- Rinse the rice several times and cook until incomplete. Rinse with hot water.
- Now mix the rice with beans, add a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil and spices.
- Peel the pumpkin, cut into medium cubes.
- Chop the onion and fry in a mixture of vegetable oil and tomato paste.
- Pour a little oil into a deep pot or cauldron and dip the onion frying and pumpkin into it. Pour everything in half a glass of warm water and top with a mixture of rice and beans. Put out all together for a quarter of an hour.
Kidney and Pork Recipe
To prepare such a dish we need:
- Pork - 400 grams.
- Beef kidneys - 700 grams.
- Rice is one glass.
- Beans - half a glass.
- Onions and carrots - in two pieces.
- Hot pepper - one pod.
- Garlic - one large head.
- Dried apricots and raisins - half a glass each.
- Fat - 50 grams.
- Salt is a teaspoon.
- Coriander, zira, peppercorns - half a teaspoon of each spice.
And how to cook pilaf with beans and kidneys, you will learn by reading the following information:
- Before you start cooking, the kidneys need to be well washed, remove the veins, fat and soak for eight hours, changing the water every hour. Then they need to be boiled for five minutes.
- Soak beans too, like kidneys. After boil it.
- Finely chop the onion, cut the carrots into cubes.
- Pork and kidneys cut into small cubes.
- We cut the fat, put it in the pan and weep out the fat from it, throw out the cracklings. We send pork there and fry until golden brown.
- Reduce the heat and add onion to the meat, and after five minutes - carrots. Tomim about 10 minutes, pouring seasonings and salt.
- We move the whole mass to the cauldron, add dried apricots with raisins, kidneys and fill everything with water. She should cover the meat for a centimeter. Close the lid and simmer everything on low heat for about 20 minutes.
- Now we fall asleep on top of the rice, insert the head of garlic in the middle, put the hot pepper on top, salt and pour everything gently with water. It should cover rice by five centimeters.
- Put the beans on top, put the medium heat, close the lid and cook for another 15 minutes. Then reduce the heat and simmer the pilaf with beans for about 20 minutes.
After the pilaf is cooked, let it brew a little. Arrange on serving plates and decorate with greens.
Mistresses note
There are several rules that will make your cooking easier:
- Always soak the beans for six to eight hours before boiling it.
- You can use canned beans, this will significantly reduce the cooking time.
- Rice is better to use long-grain, steamed. An ideal variety is considered basmati.
- If you cook pilaf with mushrooms, it is better to take mushrooms. They do not require long pre-treatment.
- If you took fresh forest mushrooms, be sure to soak them and boil them.