East is a delicate matter! And to understand it with our western mentality is almost as difficult as learning a traditional pilaf. If you have not been given this, at first glance, is not a difficult dish at all, try to cook it in the oven - you have to get it right. Meat, at last, will be juicy and gentle, and rice - surprisingly friable!
Recipe pilaf in the oven with chicken
Ingredients:
- chicken thighs - 800 g;
- rice - 2 items;
- onion - 2 pieces;
- carrots - 2 pieces;
- garlic - 2 pieces;
- vegetable oil - for frying;
- salt, seasonings for pilaf - to taste.
Preparation
Rice is washed to clear water and leave to stand a little soaked. My nipples, salt and fry in a well-heated frying pan until golden brown. We shift the meat to the scallop. And in the same pan fry finely chopped onions and carrots, cut into strips. We throw the rice into a colander and lay it evenly in the scallop. Top with carrots and onions. Solim, season with spices and pour 3 cups of boiling water. "Bury" in Figure 2 heads of garlic entirely, after cleaning them from the upper husks. We close the lid and send it to the preheated oven to 180 degrees. Pilaf in the grannies will languish for about an hour.
Sweet pilaf in a pumpkin in the oven
Hapama - sweet pilau in pumpkin - an obligatory treat at the traditional Armenian wedding. According to the legend, how rich and sweet the hapama will turn out to be, this life awaits a young couple, so the housewives did not skimp on its preparation - the honey poured down the river.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 1 piece;
- rice - 1 item;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- butter - 100 g;
- apple - 1 piece;
- raisins - 0,5 items;
- dried apricots - 0,5 items;
- dates - 0,5 items;
- prunes - 0,5 items;
- walnuts - 0,5 items;
- cinnamon - 1 teaspoon;
- salt - 0,5 tsp.
Preparation
A large pumpkin (about 1.5 kg) and my top and cut the "cap" with a tail. And so that it does not fall off, cut out at a slight angle, forming a cone. With the spoon we remove seeds, cut out a piece of pulp with a knife, making the walls of our vessel thinner. The flesh itself is cut into small pieces. Rice boil in salted water until half cooked. Dried fruits and rinse and pour for 5 minutes with boiling water. After we throw it back to the colander and cut it into small pieces. Large chop the nuts. The apple, peeled from the peel and seeds, is cut into thin strips.
Fruit, pumpkin and nuts are mixed with rice, add sugar and cinnamon and mix again. The resulting mass fill the pumpkin, pre-oiled. A minimum of 2 cm of rice should not reach the edge of this "vessel". We spread the pieces of oil from above and cover with a pumpkin cap. Bake in an oven, heated to 180 degrees, about 40 minutes.
We put the ready pumpkin on a large dish. We cut it from the top down, like a watermelon, to the skibki. We open the "petals" and water the fruit pilau with honey.
How to cook pilaf from a pork in an oven?
Ingredients:
- pork - 400 g;
- rice - 1,5 items;
- onion - 2 pieces;
- carrots - 2 pieces;
- tomatoes - 2 pcs .;
- garlic - 4 teeth;
- salt, seasoning for pilaf - to taste.
Preparation
My meat, we dip a paper towel and cut into small pieces across the fibers. Fry in a well-heated frying pan until crispy. Add the finely chopped onion, sliced carrot and cubes - tomatoes. Solim, add the spices, mix. Cover with a lid and simmer on low heat for 15 minutes.
Cut off the sleeve of the desired length, tie one end of the wire. Fill rice with meat and vegetables, level. Fill 3 glasses of water and tie it on the other side. Pilaf with pork in the sleeve will languish in the oven, heated to 200 degrees for about half an hour. After it we take out, carefully, so as not to burn yourself with steam, open the sleeve and lay out delightfully friable pilaf on the dish!