Pilaf with dried fruits

There are a lot of recipes for pilaf. In the general typology, you can distinguish such a variety as pilaf with dried fruits. This dish can be cooked with meat and without meat - a wonderful option in lean days and for vegetarians. Of course, if you include meat in the ingredients, pilaf should be cooked without the addition of sugar or honey. It is best to use a young lamb, veal or poultry for cooking such a dish. There are many ways how to cook pilaf with dried fruits - consider the most popular.

Pilaf with meat and dried fruits- recipe

Ingredients:

• young lamb or veal - about 1 kg;
• onion - 1 pc .;
• dried apricots - 150-200 g;
• prunes without pips - 150-200 g;
• raisins - 100 g;
• rice yellow long grain - 300-400 g;
• sweet pepper - 1-2 pieces;
• garlic - 5-8 denticles;
• seeds of zira - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• Spices for pilaf (saffron or turmeric, barberry, mixture of peppers, cloves, etc.);
• fresh greens - to taste;
• vegetable oil - 50 ml;
• salt.

Preparation

We clean the onion and heat the oil in a cauldron or saucepan. Fry the chopped onion to a golden hue, along with senenamikumin (zira) iminutch through 5 add the cut into small cubes meat. Stew under the lid for 20-30 minutes, stirring occasionally with a shovel. Rinse rice and dried fruits with boiling water, remove pits from the sinks. Cut the peppers into short straws. After the specified time, add rice, fruits and vegetables to the cauldron, pour water to cover everything on the finger. We mix 1 time (no more). Cook for 20 minutes on low heat, covering the lid. By the end of the process, we put garlic in the plov (in the grooves in the rice). Serve with chopped herbs and fresh tea.

Sweet pilaf with dried fruits

Ingredients:

• pure rice-400-500 g;
• dried apricots -200 g;
• Prunes without seeds -200 g;
• raisins - 150 g;
• garlic - 5-8 denticles;
• butter, natural - 100 g;
• Spices for pilaf (saffron or turmeric, barberry, mixture of peppers, cloves, etc.);
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• salt.

Preparation

Ways how to cook pilaf from dried fruits without meat, too, there are several. For example, you can cook rice separately, dry fruits steamed, and then mix and season with butter, add spices. But it's better to act in a different way.

Fry the rice in the cauldron in vegetable oil. Steaming dried fruit, salt the water and add them to the rice. We mix it with water, mix again and cook until the rice is ready on low heat. Finished sweet pilaf dress with butter, chopped garlic and spices. Serve with tea.