Recipe: Tasty Jeweled Rice Pilaf

Name: Recipe: Tasty Jeweled Rice Pilaf
Prep time: 14 min
Cook time: 2 h
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 4 tbspolive oil; 2 tbspunsalted butter; 1medium onion - finely chopped; 500 gbasmati rice - washed,soaked and drained; 1/4 tspground cardamom; 50 glentils - washed,soaked and drained; 1/4 tspground cumin; 1medium carrot - julienned; 1 pinchsalt; 1/4 tspground turmeric; 600 mlwater - to cook rice; 1/4 tspsaffron threads - soaked in a little hot water; 50 gdates - pitted and chopped; 50 gunsalted pistachios - toasted; 50 gslivered almonds - toasted; 50 graisins; 50 gdried cranberries

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Recipe: Tasty Jeweled Rice Pilaf Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Jeweled Rice Pilaf. This gloriously flavored and fabulously beautiful Jeweled Persian Rice Pilaf makes the most superb side dish. The rice is soft and fluffy and cooked in stock to give it a great depth of flavor. Sprinkled with dates, nuts, and cranberries, this Jeweled Rice Pilaf is flavourful on its own, while making a perfect base for curries and sides.

The dried fruits that traditionally dot this golden and aromatic Persian rice dish are replaced here with roasted multihued.

One of the first recipes in the cookbook that caught my eye was Roasted Pork Chops with Jeweled Rice Pilaf.

I did not make the pork chops and cooked the pilaf on the stove instead of in the oven.

You can cook Jeweled Rice Pilaf using 17 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Jeweled Rice Pilaf

You need 4 tbsp of olive oil.
It’s 2 tbsp of unsalted butter.
It’s 1 of medium onion - finely chopped.
You need 500 g of basmati rice - washed,soaked and drained.
Prepare 1/4 tsp of ground cardamom.
Prepare 50 g of lentils - washed,soaked and drained.
You need 1/4 tsp of ground cumin.
It’s 1 of medium carrot - julienned.
Prepare 1 pinch of salt.
It’s 1/4 tsp of ground turmeric.
You need 600 ml of water - to cook rice.
Prepare 1/4 tsp of saffron threads - soaked in a little hot water.
It’s 50 g of dates - pitted and chopped.
Prepare 50 g of unsalted pistachios - toasted.
Prepare 50 g of slivered almonds - toasted.
It’s 50 g of raisins.
Prepare 50 g of dried cranberries.

Recipe: Iranian Jeweled Rice. by Sara Kate Gillingham.

Rice is a central and ancient staple of the modern Iranian kitchen, though the varieties traditionally cultivated in Iran are not easy to come by in.

Besides, an easy rice pilaf can be made in about the same time it takes to make one of those boxed salt licks.

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Jeweled Rice Pilaf step by step

Heat oil and butter in a rice pot then add the onions and sauté it until fragrant and translucent. Stir in the rice and lentils, followed by the carrot, cardamom, cumin, turmeric and salt. Add sufficient water to cover the rice and leave to cook..
When rice is halfway done, pour the saffron with the water into the rice cooker and be mindful not to stir. Once rice is cooked, stir in half the dates, nuts, raisins and berries, and scatter the rest over the rice when serving..

This rice pilaf is named for the colorful dried fruits and nuts that embellish the saffron-tinted basmati rice.

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Jeweled rice or shirin polo in traditional plate.

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