Recipe: Perfect Pilau dish

Recipe: Perfect Pilau dish Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Pilau dish. On this video I demonstrate how to make Pilau dish which is a Kenyan favourite. I serve it with Kachumbari(tomato salsa with coriander). Pilau has a wonderful balance of flavors.

Pilaf (US spelling) or pilau (UK spelling) is a rice dish or, in some regions, a wheat dish, whose recipe usually involves cooking in stock or broth, adding spices, and other ingredients such as vegetables or meat, and employing some technique for achieving cooked grains that do not adhere.

Pilau is commonly known as a Kenyan delicacy but this rice dish is commonly eaten all around East Just as Jollof rice is the most famous and most common dish of West Africa, so is pilau for the East.

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You can have Pilau dish using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Pilau dish

1. It’s of Tomatoes.

2. Prepare of Onions.

3. You need of Vegetable Vinegar.

4. It’s of Lemon.

5. Prepare of Eggplant.

6. You need of Cucumber.

7. It’s leaves of Coriander.

8. It’s of Ginger.

9. Prepare of Cumin seeds.

10. It’s of Cooking oil.

11. It’s of Rice.

12. It’s of Tomato paste.

13. You need of Garlic.

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Kenyan Pilau was traditionally an Asian dish with roots in Middle and far East Asia prepared from rice and an array of historically oriental spices that are now available and grown in Kenya and East Africa.

The dish consists of rice that is flavored with a variety of spices and cooked in a broth made from meat or fish.

This pilau variety is traditionally prepared and served for special occasions and celebrations.

Pilau dish step by step

1. Cut your onions, tomatoes, eggplant, garlic into small pieces,.

2. Smash your garlic and ginger until soft, heat your cumin seeds for two minutes then remove and smash till forms a powder.

3. Cut your lemon into half and cut your cucumbers into small pieces.

4. Take a sufuria and start frying your onions, eggplant,garlic and ginger.

5. Add your tomatoes and cucumbers then simmer then add a spoon of tomato paste and cumin powder.

6. Add your rice to the mixture and continue to simmer to avoid sticking then add water and even after adding water continue simmering then you cook at a low heat for about 20 minutes.

7. Once its done Serve your Pilau while hot, I'm sure you'll love it👌.

Pilau is a common dish especially at the Kenyan Coast, Mombasa.

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Pilaf , pilaff, and pilau are all different spellings of one famous Uzbek dish.

Although a Uzbek pilaf is very delicious food, it is not difficult to prepare a pilaf.