Plov is so beloved that fantasies about itThe preparations are endless, there are a thousand and one recipes for pilaf in the world. Classic and sweet pilaf with dried fruits can be divinely prepared in Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, but both the Turkmen and Kazakhs consider it a national dish, and have practically achieved culinary perfection in preparing the dish. Despite the strict principles of preparation, pilaf in different preparations and serving methods differs greatly in taste.
A one-to-one combination of two main products.The first and main product is cereals, their presence in pilaf is invariable. Traditionally, it is rice, but peas, wheat, corn, and a mixture of different cereals are also used. The second component of the dish (zirvak) can be meat, minced meat in grape leaves, fish, chicken, vegetables and dried fruits. Of the spices, only saffron, cumin, hot pepper and barberry are added to the dish. And in no case - coriander, bay leaf or celery.
Cooking technology: one of the two parts of the pilaf is prepared separately, and the croup is stewed (not cooked).
How to choose and cook rice correctly.Only firm and transparent medium-grain rice varieties with low starch content are suitable - Jasmine and Basmati, Devzira, Oshpar, Belay alanga, Dastar-saryk, Barakat, Akmarzhan, round Krasnodar. Long-grain, wild or steamed rice is not suitable for pilaf.
Amount of water for stewing: not too much and not too little. More than necessary, and the rice will turn into mush, too little - the dish will burn.
Cookware. The recipe for any pilaf contains the condition - cast iron cookware with thick straight walls, enameled or thin-walled will not work.
Sweet pilaf: rice and dried fruits
Pilaf with dried fruits - it's delicious and veryuseful. Rice is 80% complex carbohydrates, 8% essential amino acids for humans. B vitamins in rice are food for the central nervous system, lecithin is for the brain, potassium is for the heart. But rice does not contain gluten, which makes it universally useful. Dried fruits are berries or fruits dried in the sun or in a dryer. They contain vitamins, minerals, proteins, and can be stored for a long time at room temperature. Dried fruits are inferior to fresh fruits and berries only in vitamin C content, most of which is lost during the drying process.
A simple recipe
The recipe is popular and simple.To prepare pilaf with dried fruits, you will need: rice - 2 cups, dried apricots, raisins, prunes, dates, figs (half a cup each), melted butter - half a cup, sugar, salt.
Melt melted butter in a cast-iron pot.
Add the dried fruits to the butter, stew for 20-30 minutes.
Rinse and rinse the rice.
Put the rice in stewed dried fruits, add salt and pour cold water, two fingers above rice, put sugar. Do not mix rice and dried fruits.
Bring to a boil, reduce the heat to a minimum.
When the water evaporates, collect the rice from the edges to the center of the hill.
Cover the pilaf with a lid, wrap the pan in a blanket, insist 10-15 minutes.
Remove the lid, cover the pan with a dish and drastically turn it upside down, so that the dried fruits are at the top of the pilaf.
Armenian recipe
This is a holiday recipe.To prepare Armenian pilaf, you will need: rice - 2 cups, dried apricots, raisins, prunes and pitted dates, figs, almonds (half a cup each), melted butter - half a cup, sugar, salt 1 tsp, lavash.
Pour in a cast-iron pot (cauldron) 6 glasses of water (3 times more than rice), put on fire, bring to a boil and salt.
Rice to sort, rinse and pre-soak for 2 hours. Drain the water and pour the croup into a colander.
Rice to fall asleep in boiling salted water, stir and cook for 10 minutes until half ready.
Water drained, pour the rice into a colander and cool with cold water (then the rice will turn out to be crumbly).
Put lavash in a cast-iron pot (Kazan), pour oil over it.
Put half the rice on lavash, smooth and pour with oil (2-3 tablespoons), lay out the second part of rice and pour oil again.
Cover the pan with a lid and put on a minimal fire.
Dried fruits, rinse, add almonds and put them in a sieve for 30 minutes on a water bath under a closed lid.
Steamed dried fruits and almonds put in a saucepan, pour the remaining melted butter, mix.
Place the broken lavash on a plate, place rice on the lavash, and dried fruit and almonds on the rice.
Bon appetit and good health!
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