Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, jeweled rice pilaf. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Jeweled Rice Pilaf is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Jeweled Rice Pilaf is something which I have loved my entire life.
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. Lightly spiced with cinnamon, cumin, and cardamom, then finished with cranberries, lemon, and pistachio, this is a touch of the Middle East.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook jeweled rice pilaf using 17 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Jeweled Rice Pilaf:
- Prepare 4 tbsp olive oil
- Prepare 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- Make ready 1 medium onion - finely chopped
- Make ready 500 g basmati rice - washed,soaked and drained
- Prepare 1/4 tsp ground cardamom
- Make ready 50 g lentils - washed,soaked and drained
- Prepare 1/4 tsp ground cumin
- Prepare 1 medium carrot - julienned
- Make ready 1 pinch salt
- Get 1/4 tsp ground turmeric
- Make ready 600 ml water - to cook rice
- Prepare 1/4 tsp saffron threads - soaked in a little hot water
- Get 50 g dates - pitted and chopped
- Make ready 50 g unsalted pistachios - toasted
- Get 50 g slivered almonds - toasted
- Prepare 50 g raisins
- Take 50 g dried cranberries
Spice up your rice tonight and try this flavor filled recipe with all kinds of textures and tastes going on. This popular Middle Eastern wedding dish is a celebration in itself ~ it's gluten free, vegan, and incredibly delicious! Sprinkled with dates, nuts, and cranberries, this Jeweled Rice Pilaf is flavourful on its own, while making a perfect base for curries and sides. This recipe was first published in Flavours magazine.
Steps to make Jeweled Rice Pilaf:
- 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.
In Iran, it is typically served at weddings or other celebrations. Great platters of it appear at banquets. It also goes beautifully with a weeknight roast chicken. Yes, making this rice is a time commitment and a labor of. I recently spent a few days with Najmieh Batmanglij — known to many as the Queen of Persian Cooking — who opened me up to the cooking of her native Iran, and in particular to a rice dish called Jeweled Rice, or Javaher Polow.
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