How to cook pilaf with turkey and vegetables

Probably, you will not meet a person who would not like pilaf - the real pride of several national cuisines. By the way, in the East it is rarely possible to meet a woman preparing this dish. He is engaged in men who are true connoisseurs of culinary subtleties. Back in the tenth century, it was served on great holidays. An indispensable component is rice. The rest vary. Today, we, as an option, will consider how to cook pilaf with turkey and vegetables in several ways.

The recipe and the benefits of pilaf with turkey

Today we will offer you a recipe for a chic pilaf, which is obtained not only very tasty, but also fragrant due to the excellent combination of spices such as coriander, cinnamon, caraway seeds and cardamom. Add to them a bouquet of flavors of juicy rice and tender turkey, enriched with the taste of nuts, add cranberry sauce - and we get a great flavoring composition. Everything else, turkey meat is incredibly healthy and is recommended by doctors for dietary nutrition.

In order to cook a delicious pilaf with turkey and vegetables, we will need: to taste - olive oil, one onion, one clove of garlic, four pods of cardamom, a teaspoon of ground cumin, one stick of cinnamon, one hundred grams of a mixture of wild and brown rice, 300 ml of vegetable broth, 300 grams of turkey meat, one handful of nuts, one bunch of cilantro greens, ground black pepper and salt to taste, cranberry sauce for serving.

Cooking pilaf

And now we offer the recipe for pilaf with turkey, step by step:

1. Wash turkey meat, dry, cut into small pieces.
2. We put a deep frying pan on the stove, pour olive oil, heat it and put the turkey in it. Fry on all sides until golden brown, pepper and salt.
3. Put the fried meat on a plate.
4. We peel, wash and finely chop the onion, peel the garlic, wash and crush with a knife, then chop finely and finely.
5. Open the pods of cardamom, select the seeds and push in a mortar.
6. We wash rice several times in water. Grind nuts.
   
7. We put the frying pan on the fire again, pour in the oil, warm and pour the garlic and onion, fry until the onion is soft, add the turkey, warm it up and pour in the broth, then reduce the heat to a small boil.
8. Add caraway seeds, cinnamon stick, cardamom, to taste the salt and mix well.
9. Stew pilaf until rice is ready.
10. In the meantime, cook the cilantro greens - wash, dry and grind.
11. When the dish is ready, remove it from the stove, arrange it on plates, sprinkle with herbs and nuts, serve pilaf with turkey and vegetables to the table with cranberry sauce.

Another interesting recipe for pilaf - in a cauldron

We present you the recipe for this diet dish. By the way, now we will post some data about him. Pilaf with turkey: calories - 416.5 kcal, carbohydrates - 235.7 grams, fat - 9.9 grams, protein - 69.9 grams. The calculation is given per serving weighing 236.7 grams. The weight of the ingredients, not the finished dish, is taken into account. It is considered dietary for the reason that, unlike lamb, turkey meat is absolutely not fat.

And we will need the following ingredients for four servings: turkey breast - 0.5 kg, one large onion, two carrots, one glass of rice, seasoning - zira, red pepper, garlic (three unpeeled cloves), vegetable oil and salt. And now we will tell you how to cook pilaf with turkey according to this recipe.

The process of cooking pilaf

Suggested recipe:

1. We send the cauldron to the stove, turn on the strongest fire.
2. While the dish is warming up, we are preparing the meat: wash it well and cut into small pieces.
3. We clean the onions, wash them and cut them into rings or half rings.
4. Pour vegetable oil about two centimeters into the cauldron, wait for the smoke to appear, and very carefully so that the boiling oil does not spray, put our meat and fry it.
   
5. Then we put onion to the meat, reduce the heat a little and fry everything together.
6. Quickly chop the washed and peeled carrots with straws, and also into the cauldron.
7. After the carrots go limp, we fall asleep seasonings: an incomplete teaspoon of zira, pepper - based on our own taste preferences, and salt. Now we mix everything and fry for five minutes.
8. It was the turn of rice. We wash it and pour it into the cauldron. Pour on top of hot water an inch and a half above the level of cereals. Reduce the fire, close the cauldron with a lid.
9. After 15 minutes, we drown the unpeeled garlic in the rice , return the lid to its place and reduce the heat. Half an hour - and the dish is ready.

Pilaf recipe in a slow cooker

Many multicookers are equipped with a program designed for cooking pilaf. But this does not mean at all that it is very easy to prepare a dish - I pressed the button and got the perfect pilaf. An accurate calculation of the ingredients is needed here so that the cereal does not stick together, as it happens, into one big lump. Therefore, the set of the multicooker necessarily includes measuring cups.

The recipe for how to cook pilaf with turkey in a slow cooker does not differ from the standard, but it will save you time spent at the stove. So, we need: 300-400 grams of meat, one glass (from the slow cooker) of steamed long-grain rice, the same amount of tomato and water juice, two carrots, two onions, three tablespoons of adjika, butter, a teaspoon of seasoning for pilaf, five cloves garlic, dill or feathers of green onions, vegetable / olive oil and salt.

The process of cooking pilaf in a slow cooker

Gotvim pilaf with turkey in a slow cooker , the recipe is also offered step by step:

1. We peel the onion and cut into medium-sized pieces.
2. Rub the carrot on a grater.
3. Cut the turkey fillet into cubes, if the meat is on the bone, then do not touch it.
4. Pour a little vegetable oil into a pot in which we will cook pilaf, and set the slow cooker to frying or baking.
5. Fry carrots and onions for ten minutes with the lid open.
6. Put the meat in a pot and fry for another 10-15 minutes.
   
7. Pour tomato juice along with pieces of tomatoes, as well as adjika, simmer the whole mixture for another 20 minutes, without changing the program. Then turn off the multicooker.
8. Rinse the rice and put in our bowl, add the cloves of garlic along with the peel, sprinkle with herbs, seasoning and add salt.
9. It's time to pour rice with meat and vegetables in boiling water.
10. We change the program to "Pilaf" or "Rice" and go about our business.
11. After the sound signal is triggered, open the lid, mix the mass and add a piece of butter.
12. We close the lid and leave it on “Heating” for another 20 minutes.

Pilaf with turkey and vegetables is ready, remove the garlic from it, mix, arrange on plates and serve.

Golden and crumbly pilaf with turkey

Ingredients for this recipe: 400 grams of turkey fillet, one and a half glasses of steamed rice, one large carrot, one large onion, three glasses of water, sunflower oil and to taste - seasoning, salt, herbs and garlic. Cooking this pilaf with turkey in a pan. Cut the turkey fillet into small pieces, pour the oil into the pan, put the meat in it, finely chop the onion and send it there.

Three carrots on a coarse grater and - to the meat. Stew together until golden brown. Pour clean water and boil, then add seasoning, herbs, salt. Then pour the rice. Stew for 25-30 minutes without a lid, after which another 10 minutes, closing the lid. Everything, our pilaf is ready, you can pour it into plates and serve on the dining table.

Enjoy your meal!