Probably everyone knows that pilaf recipe has been known since ancient times. It was served at major festivals of many nations, often it was considered a cure for exhaustion. And in the East, whence he came to Russia, he was usually prepared by men. This article does not talk about traditional pilaf, but about dessert, which is prepared with fruits. So let's see how to make sweet pilaf.
Fruit pilaf: recipe with dried fruits and spices
We will cook this pilaf in the oven, so we take a baking dish and put 200 g of Basmati rice in it, fill it with water (1 to 2) and put a pinch of saffron. 100 g of prunes, the same amount of dried apricots and ½ stack. grind light raisins and put on rice. Sprinkle with 10 peeled pistachios, put the butter cut into small pieces (50 g is enough), be sure to cover and bake for 30 minutes. Then pour 100 g of cream mixed with vanilla, and another 5 minutes. languish in the oven.
The set of dried fruits and spices in this recipe can be changed to your taste and the availability of products. You can add cinnamon, apricot, figs or dried plums, and use sesame or almonds instead of pistachios. In a word, there is room for imagination.
Fruit pilaf: recipe with syrup
Boil a half cup of rice in slightly salted water until half cooked. Be sure to rinse it with cold water to make it friable. At the bottom of the enameled pan put a thin layer of regular dough, on top - half a glass of rice mixed with 50 g melted butter, smooth the layer. Then lay out the remaining rice, put another 50 g of oil on top, be sure to cover and simmer over very low heat for about 30 minutes. (rice should turn out completely ready).
In a deep frying pan in butter, fry 200 g of raisins and dried apricots, 3 peaches, 100 g of almonds, a glass of cherry plum. Cook syrup in a stewpan. It consists of 2 tablespoons of honey, ½ stack. grape or pomegranate juice, 2 tablespoons of sugar, a small spoon of cinnamon and 2 clove inflorescences. Put the fruits in the syrup and boil for 5 minutes, after which we pour the rice with the resulting syrup with fruits and mix.
Fruit pilaf: recipe with dried fruits and spices in corn oil
For this dish you will need 2 stacks. long-grain rice (preferably pink). You need to wash it, be sure to dry it and put in a pan with corn oil. Fry with constant stirring until golden brown. Then we add 70 g of chopped dried apricots to rice, the same amount of white raisins, 50 g of chopped figs and 100 g of dried and chopped dates. There we put 2 tablespoons of dried barberry and 50 g of almonds. It can be slightly salted. Then the rice needs to be poured with boiling water (so that the water is 3-4 cm higher than the rice). Close the pan tightly and simmer over low heat until rice is cooked.
Pilaf with vegetables and fruits.
When cooking pilaf, it is quite possible to combine fruits with vegetables. Boil 120 ml of water, throw 50 g of rice and 20 g of butter there. Cook for 15 minutes, and then put on a steam bath, where we simmer until cooked. 20 g of carrots, 10 g of green peas and 30 g of cauliflower are boiled separately, cut into small pieces. We put 20 g of prunes and 5 g of raisins in a pan, add rice and vegetables to the same place and put in a water bath for half an hour.
Fruit pilaf: recipe with rice cooked in Azerbaijani
2 stack rice thoroughly washed and 15 min. soaked in warm water. Next, mix 1.5 stacks. water with 2.5 stack. fat milk and cook rice in them. When it is almost ready, we rinse with boiling water, dry it, laying it on a cloth, and put it in a deep pan, the bottom of which is laid out by a kazmag. Put a piece of oil on top and simmer for about 5 minutes so that the oil is absorbed.
Kazmag for sweet pilaf is prepared in this way: 1.5 stacks. mix flour with 1 egg, 25 g butter, 1 spoonful of sugar, the same amount of cinnamon ground and dilute with a spoonful of water. Knead the dough, roll out a thin layer, which we put on the bottom of the dishes. Then grease with oil and spread the rice. Kazmag protects rice from burning, and it is perfectly fried. It is served with pilaf along with butter and cinnamon.
Fruits are added to the cooked rice : raisins, peaches, cherry plum, dried apricots and any others of your choice. Finely chopped walnuts and cinnamon will serve as an excellent addition.