PILAU  (sorghum/cowpea)
PILAU  (sorghum/cowpea)

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pilau  (sorghum/cowpea). One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

PILAU  (sorghum/cowpea) is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. PILAU  (sorghum/cowpea) is something which I have loved my entire life.

Pilaf (US spelling) or pilau (UK spelling) is a rice dish or, in some regions, a wheat dish, whose recipe usually involves cooking in stock or broth, adding spices, and other ingredients such as vegetables or meat, and employing some technique for achieving cooked grains that do not adhere. On this video I demonstrate how to make Pilau dish which is a Kenyan favourite. I serve it with Kachumbari(tomato salsa with coriander).

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook pilau  (sorghum/cowpea) using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make PILAU  (sorghum/cowpea):
  1. Get 2 cups de-hulled sorghum (500gms)
  2. Make ready 2 cups cowpeas (500gms)
  3. Get 2 medium sized chopped onions
  4. Take 1 cloves crushed Garlic
  5. Prepare 1 small crushed fresh ginger
  6. Take 1 tea spoon ginger powder
  7. Take 4 tablespoons cooking oil
  8. Make ready 1 tablespoon pilau masala
  9. Make ready royco (optional)
  10. Prepare 1 bunch dhania
  11. Take to taste Salt

Sorghum is a crop grown for fodder, grain, parching grain, decoration and a sweet syrup. You can make wine from sorghum, liquor, beer, and other delicious fermented beverages. Sorghum, Sorghum bicolor is manganese and carbohydrate rich fruit support for Antioxidant Sorghum bicolor. Northern Africa and now widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions.

Steps to make PILAU  (sorghum/cowpea):
  1. Clean the cowpeas and soak in water for 1 hour (optional)
  2. Par boil the cowpeas
  3. Wash to sorghum and add to par boil cowpeas
  4. Boil together until tender
  5. Drain the water
  6. Fry the onions to golden brown
  7. Add the garlic and ginger and fry until brown
  8. Add the pilau masala and cook evenly
  9. Add royco (optional)
  10. Add the sorghum cowpea mix and simmer for 10 min
  11. Add the chopped dhania and serve hot with vegetables.

Sorghum ('Sorghum bicolor') belongs to the Poaceae family and is one of the most important cereal Sorghum is extremely drought tolerant, making it an excellent choice for semi-arid and dry areas. Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) belongs to the Poaceae family. In Kenya, it is grown in Western, Eastern, Northern Rift valley and some parts of Central province and it is cultivated majorly for its seeds. Download Pilau stock photos at the best stock photography agency with millions of premium high quality, royalty-free stock photos, images and pictures at reasonable prices. Sorghum beer is one of the most popular drinks in South Africa.

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