Do you like pilaf? What is meant here is real Uzbek pilaf made of mutton and in a special large cooking pot. You are welcome to take part in the process of making and eating real pilaf from the city of Tashkent.
Pilaf is a dish in which rice is cooked in a seasoned broth. In some cases, the rice may also attain its brown color by being stirred with bits of burned onion, as well as a large mix of spices. Every region of Uzbekistan can boast of its own recipe of pilaf. To cook the dish one may need 2 kg of fat mutton, 2 kg of rice, red and yellow carrots 1 kg each, 2 kg of onions, raisins, pepperidge, peas soaked in water, jeera and red pepper.
Put rice in a plate with water and leave it for some time.
Cut meat into large pieces. Usually 1 kg of meat is enough for 4-5 people.
Wood-fire cooking of pilaf is advisable.
Add oil to the pilaf dish.
Cut onions into halves and don’t worry: just taste of onion will be there in the pilaf!
Add onions to the boiling oil.
As well as pieces of meat.
Together with peas soaked in water.
Wait until the ingredients are roasted enough.
Add some water to the pilaf dish…
… and leave it to boil for some time.
After that you will need jeera and red pepper.
Add carrots, yellow…
…and red.
Remove the water and add your rice to the pilaf dish.
A thick layer of rice must cover all the ingredients.
Adding curry.
And raisins.
More red pepper and jeera.
Be careful not to mix the rice and the carrots.
Some people add grape leaves to their pilafs.
Making salad.
As soon as the rice stops being gritty it is ready.
These are the dishes used to serve pilaf.
Enjoy!
via protchenkov
Damn that looks good.
Probably the best dish you will ever taste in Russia.
Delícica…
best food in the world
I love it! Even if it is not made by the recipe it is still very tasty. One of the best rice dishes you’ll ever taste
butiful dish..
You didn’t mention the whole bulbs of garlic seen in the last photos. Also, those “peas soaked in water” are called Chick-Peas, or garbanzo beans in English. Sure looks tasty! I’ve never seen yellow carrots before.
For once, that actually looks really nice
Looks tasty!
Paella clone?
Awesome post! Excellent photos!
I’m always impressed when I see so advanced dishes made in so simple kitchens. People in new apartment buildings have so advanced kitchens, and yet many people only use them to heat dishes in the microwave.
I would eat it straight out of the pot.
what is “carrie” as mentioned under picture 25?
Carrie = curry powder i guess?
curry powder?
yammy
Jeera is cumin, I would guess with the red pepper, onions and garlic, that this comes out tasting a bit like Indian curry. Awesome recipe though.
hmm, if i would add the grape leaves, shoud i cut them?
I made this on Saturday. Turned out pretty good! What’s are the other spices I see in the photos, and what does “pepperidge” refer to?
this is almost like Afghani qabili palow….
this is not a recipe for any of the people! first pilaf was made by chefs Alexander the Great! so this is a recipe Alexander of Macedonia!