Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, chicken pilau. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Featuring a delicious East African pilau made with chicken, this Kenyan Chicken Pilau recipe is an elevated chicken and Kenyan Pilau dish that is very easy to make! Follow this simple step by step video to enjoy this delicious dish on all your special occasions. For those lamb lovers my lamb pilau recipe can be seen.
Chicken Pilau is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Chicken Pilau is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chicken pilau using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Pilau:
- Get rice
- Prepare chicken
- Take cooking oil
- Make ready Ginger
- Get Garlic
- Get Lemon zest
- Get Full Lemon
- Take Cinnamon
- Make ready Sprite Soda
- Prepare Salt
- Make ready Nutmeg
- Prepare Pilau Masala
- Prepare Dried Mint
- Take Onion
- Get Green Capsicum
The chicken will cook some more in the pilau so don't be t. Quick, easy and yummy chicken pilau. Legitimately, using ghee will transform your Chicken Pilau. Every grain of rice was moist and buttery… just what I like Also, I used this chicken stock/broth recipe as the base for the Pilau instead of water.
Steps to make Chicken Pilau:
- Grate ginger in a dish. Add lemon zest and squeeze the lemon leaving out the seeds. Add in Sprite soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and mint leaves.
- Cut and wash the chicken then place pieces in the marinade mixture made above in step one. Make sure the chicken is fully covered in the marinade then set aside or place in a refrigerator for a minimum of thirty minutes.
- After marinating the chicken. Boil the chicken in the marinade until it is cooked and the marinade has dried out. (This step is purely optional. Otherwise remove the chicken from the marinade it will cook at a later stage.)
- Wash rice and set aside. Take cooking oil and place in cooking dish.
- Chop the onions, green capsicum and garlic finely.
- When the oil is hot, pour in pilau masala and let it cook for a few seconds before adding the chopped ingredients.
- When the onions have turned golden brown add the chicken in the oil and let it brown over if it was cooked in the marinade. If the chicken is raw let it cook until it is well done.
- Add the water and rice and a little salt to taste. Let it cook over medium heat then reduce to low heat as the water evaporates. Once all the water has gone switch off the heat and let it sit for a few minutes before serving.
- Serve and enjoy with a glass of Sprite.
Chicken, rice, and greens fill one soulful pot of Chicken-and-Collards Pilau—our family-friendly take on a Lowcountry staple. Chicken Pilau, pronounced "perlo," is a Georgetown County meal that is made with chicken, sausage and the ever present southern component, rice. It is very similar to it's northern neighbor's. This dish is loaded with delicious, fragrant spices that add a wonderful, authentic flavour to the dish. There's cloves, cardamom, fennel and coriander which often feature in.
So that’s going to wrap this up for this special food chicken pilau recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I’m sure that you will make this at home. There’s gonna be interesting food in home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to bookmark this page in your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!
