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Green rice (Zamarod pilaf) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Green rice (Zamarod pilaf) is something which I have loved my whole life.
Zamarod pulao, or some call it, green rice, spinach rice, palak pulao, is a very aromatic and healthy, afghani dish. But are made differently in some. recipes. You need day-old rice to make this vibrant, springy pilaf recipe, but it's worth planning ahead.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have green rice (zamarod pilaf) using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Green rice (Zamarod pilaf):
- Make ready 3 cups rice, soaked in salted water for 1-2 hours before cooking
- Prepare 1 large bunch of fresh spinach, washed, drained and chopped
- Take 1 large onion
- Prepare 300 g diced beef or lamb meat and broth, Cooked
- Make ready 1 tsp cumin
- Make ready Pinch pepper
- Take to taste Salt
- Take Olive oil
The spinach imparts its signature green color to the dish, so it is usually incorporated into the rice before the baking process begins. In a large pot, heat the oil over high. Stir in the rice, garlic and the cilantro mixture. A beautifully fragrant Rice Pilaf with pistachios, almonds and dried fruit.
Steps to make Green rice (Zamarod pilaf):
- Wash the rice and soak in the salted water for 1-2 hours before cooking time. - In a pot with meat, add chopped onion, season with pepper. Pour water into the pot and cook it until tender. Keep meat broth for mixing with spinach.
- Heat the oil in a pan and sauté spinach for 2-3 minutes. Remove it from the heat.
- Add salt, cumin powder and meat broth to the fried spinach (for the extra flavour) and blend the spinach mixture well in blender.
- Use a sieve and strain it in order to separate juice from leaves. Now we have puree and filtered spinach juice as a colouring agent for our rice.
- Now for cooking rice, bring the water to a boil in a pot. Drain the salted water of rice and pour the rice into the boiled water. Allow to cook for 10 minutes. Remove from the heat. Use a colander and drain the rice.
- Turn the rice back into the pot. Add spinach juice to the rice and mix it well. There is no necessity to use all of the spinach juice. Just add enough to give good green colour to the rice. Place the cooked meat among the rice. Cover the pot with a lid and allow to steam for 20 minutes.
- Serve the rice with herbs or fresh vegetables.
Perfect for your holiday feasting table or a side for a Middle Eastern meal! This Rice Pilaf recipe is a terrific side dish for Thanksgiving or Christmas with the festive spicing, dried fruit and nuts. Or try it on the side of Lamb or. Rice pilaf is a delicious way to make a plain rice side dish better. It's really just rice cooked in broth P.
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