Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, jeweled rice pilaf. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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.
Jeweled Rice Pilaf is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Jeweled Rice Pilaf is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook jeweled rice pilaf using 17 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Jeweled Rice Pilaf:
- Get 4 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- Get 1 medium onion - finely chopped
- Get 500 g basmati rice - washed,soaked and drained
- Make ready 1/4 tsp ground cardamom
- Take 50 g lentils - washed,soaked and drained
- Prepare 1/4 tsp ground cumin
- Make ready 1 medium carrot - julienned
- Get 1 pinch salt
- Get 1/4 tsp ground turmeric
- Get 600 ml water - to cook rice
- Take 1/4 tsp saffron threads - soaked in a little hot water
- Prepare 50 g dates - pitted and chopped
- Make ready 50 g unsalted pistachios - toasted
- Make ready 50 g slivered almonds - toasted
- Take 50 g raisins
- Get 50 g dried cranberries
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. Yes, making this rice is a time commitment and a labor of love. But the ingredients aren't difficult to.
Instructions 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.
Persian Jeweled Rice is a spectacular rice pilaf topped with colorful gem-like fruits and nuts. This popular Middle Eastern wedding dish is a celebration in itself ~ it's gluten free, vegan, and incredibly delicious! This dish is called jeweled rice because it is golden and glistening, laced with butter and spices and piled with nuts and gem-colored fruits. In Iran, it is typically served at weddings or other celebrations. Great platters of it appear at banquets.
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