Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, zanzibari pialu/pilaf. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Zanzibari Pialu/Pilaf is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Zanzibari Pialu/Pilaf is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook zanzibari pialu/pilaf using 20 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Zanzibari Pialu/Pilaf:
- Take Rice ingredients
- Prepare 1 kg beef
- Make ready 3 cups long grain rice
- Take 3 medium russet potatoes
- Make ready 3 medium cinnamon sticks
- Get 1 1/2 tbls black pepper corn
- Take 1 1/2 tbls cardamom seeds
- Make ready 1 1/2 tbls cumin seeds
- Get 1 tbls cloves
- Get 1/4 cup raisins
- Prepare 1 tbls garlic paste
- Make ready 1 tap ginger paste
- Prepare to taste Salt and pepper
- Prepare 2 tbls vegetable ghee
- Prepare Kachumbari salad
- Get 1 large onion
- Make ready 2 large tomatoes
- Take 1 large cucumber
- Take 1/4 lemon juice
- Get to taste Salt
Steps to make Zanzibari Pialu/Pilaf:
- Cut the beef in 1 inch chunks, marinate in salt & pepper and set aside
- Cut the potatoes into quarters and set aside
- In a bowl of water soak cinnamon sticks, cardamom seeds, black pepper and cumin seeds and set aside.
- In another bowl of water soak the raisins and set aside
- In a pot, add enough water to cover the meat and boil until soft and cooked through. Set aside. (Tip: for extra flavour make sure you have leftover beef stock to cook the rice in)
- In a bottom heavy pot over medium high heat, add ghee and fry potatoes until golden brown and cooked through.
- Drain the spices and add to the pot with cooked potatoes along with the garlic and ginger paste, stir well for a minute or so to release the fragrance from the spices
- Add the rice to the pot with potatoes and spices and stir to mix well.
- Once the rice is well coated with the spices, add in the meat and its broth to the rice. Mix until all ingredients are well combined. Allow the water to boil and then begin stirring occasionally until rice is cooked through. Add water if need be to cook the rice
- Make a well in the middle of the pilau and add drained raisins. Cover the raisins with some rice. Cover the pot and allow to simmer for the last 2 minutes.
- Remove the pilau from heat. Before serving, remove the raisins and set aside to be served on the side along with the Kachumbari salaa
- For the Kachumbari/Salad: in a bowl mix in thinly sliced onions, cubed cucumbers and chopped tomatoes, mix well to combine. Season with salt, pepper and lemon juice.
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