Azerbaijani pilaf

Azerbaijani pilaf is a national dish in Azerbaijan. There are many different recipes for how to cook this pilaf. Someone likes that dish was sharper, someone to have more meat there. But it unites everyone that nobody is indifferent to the Azerbaijani pilaf.

Azerbaijani pilaf is a recipe

Ingredients:

• long grain rice - 3 cups;
• lamb or pork - 1kg;
• butter melted - 300 g;
• onion - 2 onions (medium);
• raisins - 300 g;
• dried apricots - 300 g;
• prunes - 300 g;
• sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• eggs - 1 piece;
• sour cream - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• wheat flour - 1 st. a spoon;
• saffron - 1 pinch;
• pepper and salt - to taste.

Preparation

1. Rice soak in cold water for about an hour on 3. Then boil it to half-cooked in salted water.
2. In a deep bowl, beat the egg with sour cream, add the flour to make a dough. From the test we cut into small squares and lay them on the bottom of the cauldron, where our pilaf will be prepared.
3. We spread rice from above, pour all this with melted milk and put it on the middle fire.
4. While the rice is being stewed, let's take care of the meat. To do this, cut the lamb (pork) into small pieces and fry in a frying pan along with the onion rings. Then all this is mixed with the braised rice.
5. For taste, you can put out the prunes with dried apricots and serve separately from pilaf.

Now popularity is gained by the nonclassical recipe of pilaf, namely, sweet pilaf in Azerbaijani. When a variety of fruits are added to the standard recipe, they are usually turmeric, grape or chestnut. For the sake of taste, you can also add nuts, together with fruits, they will add a special spicy and unusual taste to the dish.

If you do not have fresh fruit on hand to add them to pilaf, then you can cook a dish like Azerbaijani pilaf with dried fruits. Most often plums are added to plov, prunes and dried apricots. Dried fruits you can fry separately from pilaf and serve on the table just before the tasting, or they can be slightly extinguished and mixed with rice. There are many more kinds of pilaf with dried fruits .

How to cook Azerbaijani pilaf?

In fact, in order to make the pilaf tasty, you do not need any special culinary knowledge. You just need to observe all the necessary proportions and, of course, you need to cook with pleasure. Preparing the Azerbaijani pilaf is a very interesting and to some extent painstaking process, but the resulting dish will please the guests and the household.