How to Cook Perfect Chicken pilau with coconut

How to Cook Perfect Chicken pilau with coconut Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Chicken pilau with coconut. Featuring a delicious East African pilau made with chicken, this Kenyan Chicken Pilau recipe is an elevated chicken and Kenyan Pilau dish that is very easy to make! While I might call this a Kenyan Chicken Pilau, pilau is honestly a staple dish eaten all over East Africa. Stir the lamb back in to the pan along with the chilli, coconut milk and stock, then bring to the boil.

East African Pilau is a traditional, beautiful fragrant rice dish made with many aromatic spices that adds an amazing depth of flavor to the rice.

Pilau has a wonderful balance of flavors.

It is a festive dish, which is never missing during special occasions or events.

You can have Chicken pilau with coconut using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken pilau with coconut

1. You need 1 1/2 tablespoon of Pilau masala.

2. You need 1 cup of coconut grated.

3. Prepare 1/2 of chicken, cut and boiled.

4. You need 3 cups of Chicken broth.

5. You need of Salt and pepper.

6. It’s 1 cup of rice.

7. You need 2 tbsp of Olive oil.

8. You need 1 of Onion finely diced.

9. It’s 2 tbsp of ginger garlic paste.

Mix it in two cups of mildly hot water. ¼- ½ cup of coconut milk.

This is a quick guide to cooking nice pilau with pilau masala.

Scroll down and check out the ingredients and method of preparation.

Garlic goes well with anything chicken and this chicken pilau was no exception.

Chicken pilau with coconut instructions

1. In a big pot, heat oil on medium heat and fry the onions till they turn to golden brown.

2. Add in the boiled chicken pieces until they start turning to golden color.

3. Add garlic, ginger, and pilau masala. Keep stirring until the garlic is cooked..

4. Add rice. Stir until the translucent color of rice starts to turn white.

5. Add garlic, ginger, and pilau masala. Keep stirring until the garlic is cooked..

6. In a separate bowl, mix the coconut with 1⁄2 cup of chicken broth..

7. Add the coconut mixture to the rice..

8. Cover the pot and turn heat to low. Adding chicken broth 1⁄2 cup at a time to the rice until it is cooked..

It brings everything together; compliments the flavor of the chicken and tempers the spices used.

Yes you can use store bought black pepper.

And, you cannot substitute heavy cream with coconut cream.

Coconut Pilau. photo by recipe author.

To make coconut milk - Blend warm water and dried coconut in a blender.