If the dishes from rice stuffed you to the point, then try to replace it with bulgur - wheat cereal, which has a neutral taste and is perfectly combined with any vegetable additives. More on how to prepare bulgur in different manners, we'll talk further.
How to cook bulgur on a garnish - recipe
As we noted earlier, bulgur is an excellent replacement for rice, and therefore can be used as a basis for one of the most popular rice dishes - pilaf . Together with bulgur, within the framework of this pilaf, one of the basic ingredients will be chicken meat.
Ingredients:
- raisins - 35 g;
- lemon juice - 25 ml;
- onion - 175 g;
- garlic - 2 teeth;
- chicken thighs - 940 g;
- cardamom - 8 pcs .;
- cloves - 4 buds;
- cinnamon - 2 sticks;
- bulgur - 1 1/2 items;
- for a handful of dill and parsley.
Preparation
Pour raisins with lemon juice and set aside. Half-rings of onions, save about 15 minutes, add garlic for the last half-minute, and then shift the frying pan to a plate. Instead of onions in the same dishes, send roasted and chicken thighs, previously flavored with ground cardamom and cloves. When the peel on the thighs browned, remove them from the fire, and in the same dish mix the bulgur with the melted fat. Add to it chicken, raisins, cinnamon sticks and pour all with two cups of boiling water. Pour in the salt. Cover the dish and leave to languish in the weakest heat for half an hour. After removing the pan from the fire, bulgur should be left for another 15 minutes under the lid and then try, without forgetting sprinkle with fresh herbs.
If you do not know how to make bulgur in a multivark, you can also try this method, however in this case, fry the chicken along with the onions, then immediately pour the bulgur and after repeated mixing leave in the "Pilaf" mode until the signal.
How delicious to cook bulgur in Turkish?
There are a lot of Turkish Bulgur recipes and they are all interesting in their own way, but among others this one stands out especially. Such a variation of the dish is noteworthy because in it the company is made of bulgur vermicelli and lentils.
Ingredients:
- butter - 45 g;
- vermicelli - 35 g;
- bulgur - 1 item;
- boiled lentils - 1 item;
- greens onions;
- handful of parsley;
- tomato paste - 25 g;
- lemon juice - 15 ml.
Preparation
Melt the butter for roasting the vermicelli for 4-5 minutes. After a lapse of time add to the vermicelli bulgur and continue roasting for 5 more minutes. Pour all the water, add salt with tomato paste and leave to simmer on low heat for 12 minutes. After leave the dish to stand under the lid the same time period, and in the finale, add it with lemon juice and herbs, mix with boiled lentils and serve.
How to cook bulgur with vegetables - recipe
Ingredients:
- eggplant - 430 g;
- onion - 115 g;
- garlic - 4 teeth;
- tomatoes - 440 g;
- Ground cumin, coriander - 1 teaspoon;
- bulgur - 1 item;
- parsley greens - 1/2 tbsp.
Preparation
Pour the bulgur with two cups of boiling water, cover and leave to swell for 20 minutes. In the meantime, brown the pieces of onions, at the very end add the ground spices and garlic to it, and in half a minute mix everything with the sliced tomatoes. Eggplants, if they are old and bitter, soak in concentrated brine before frying, and then throw the pieces to the vegetable fry.
Remove excess moisture from bulgur and mix the rump with vegetables. Distribute the garnish over several earthenware pots and place them in a preheated 180 degree oven for 25 minutes. Serve the dish with parsley and a glass of white wine.