Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, jeweled rice pilaf. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Jeweled Rice Pilaf is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Jeweled Rice Pilaf is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have jeweled rice pilaf using 17 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Jeweled Rice Pilaf:
- Take 4 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- Get 1 medium onion - finely chopped
- Prepare 500 g basmati rice - washed,soaked and drained
- Take 1/4 tsp ground cardamom
- Take 50 g lentils - washed,soaked and drained
- Take 1/4 tsp ground cumin
- Take 1 medium carrot - julienned
- Prepare 1 pinch salt
- Make ready 1/4 tsp ground turmeric
- Get 600 ml water - to cook rice
- Prepare 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
- Get 50 g slivered almonds - toasted
- Get 50 g raisins
- Prepare 50 g dried cranberries
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.
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