Pilaf with beans - recipes and cooking secrets

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

There are a lot of pilaf recipes. It is prepared with various types of meat and cereals. The main ingredient is rice, but chickpeas, pumpkin or beans can also be added to it. Let's look at a few cooking methods.

Pilaf with Dagestanian beans

For its preparation we need:

• Lamb - 500 grams.
• Rice - two glasses.
• Red beans - 300 grams.
• Ghee butter - 200 grams.
• S alt, ground black pepper - to your taste.
• Garlic - four cloves.
• Boiling water - two glasses.
• Greens - to your taste.

The recipe for pilaf with beans is very simple and the dish is very easy to prepare:

1. Soak the beans for eight hours, then boil and cool them.
2. Rinse the rice several times, boil it, put it in a colander and rinse with hot boiled water.
3. Rinse the meat, remove the films and veins. Cut it into serving pieces.
4. Place 100 grams of melted butter in a cauldron, fry lamb on it until golden brown. After that, pour boiling water over it and cook for about 30minutes. During cooking, you can add water.
5. After half an hour, we send rice, beans and a mixture of the remaining oil with garlic and spices passed through the press to the meat. Mix everything.
6. Close the lid, put a slow fire and simmer everything for half an hour.

Pilaf with beans is ready. Arrange it on plates and garnish with herbs. This fragrant and simple dish will please everyone.

Pilaf with beans and pumpkin

This is a very unusual recipe, it is suitable for those who are fasting or dieting. Need these products:

• Rice - one and a half cups.
• Beans - one glass.
• Pumpkin - 350 grams.
• Tomato paste - one tablespoon.
• Onion - one large head.
• Barberry, zira, coriander - half a teaspoon each.
• Bay leaf - a couple of pieces.
• Vegetable oil - 50 ml.
• S alt - to your taste.

The algorithm for cooking pilaf with beans and pumpkin is as follows:

1. Soak the beans overnight. Then rinse, cover with cold water, s alt and boil. Boiling time is about two hours.
2. Rinse rice several times and boil until tender. Rinse with hot water.
3. Now mix rice with beans, add a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil and spices.
4. Peel the pumpkin, cut into medium cubes.
5. Chop the onion and fry in a mixture of vegetable oil and tomato paste.
6. Pour a little oil into a deep saucepan or cauldron and lower the frying fromonion and pumpkin. Pour everything in half a glass of warm water and put the mixture of rice and beans on top. Extinguish everything together for a quarter of an hour.

Recipe with kidney and pork

To prepare such a dish we need:

• Pork - 400 grams.
• Beef kidney - 700 grams.
• Rice - one glass.
• Beans - half a glass.
• Onions and carrots - two each.
• Hot pepper - one pod.
• Garlic - one large head.
• Dried apricots and raisins - half a glass each.
• Lard - 50 grams.
• S alt - teaspoon.
• Coriander, zira, peppercorns - half a teaspoon of each spice.

And how to cook pilaf with beans and kidneys, you will learn by reading the following information:

1. Before you start cooking, rinse the kidneys well, remove the veins, fat and soak for eight hours, changing the water every hour. Then they need to be boiled for five minutes.
2. Soak the beans too, like the kidneys. Then boil it.
3. Chop the onion finely, cut the carrot into cubes.
4. Cut pork and kidney into small cubes.
5. Chop the lard, place it in a frying pan and melt the fat out of it, discard the greaves. We send pork there and fry until golden brown.
6. Reduce the heat and add the onion to the meat, and after five minutes - the carrot. Simmer for about 10 minutes, adding seasonings and s alt.
7. Move the whole mass into a cauldron, add dried apricots with raisins, kidneys and fill everythingwater. It should cover the meat by a centimeter. Close the lid and simmer everything over low heat for about 20 minutes.
8. Now we put rice on top, insert a head of garlic in the middle, put hot pepper on top, s alt and pour everything neatly with water. It should cover the rice by five centimeters.
9. Put beans on top, set medium heat, close the lid and cook for another 15 minutes. Then reduce the heat and simmer pilaf with beans for about 20 minutes.

After the pilaf is cooked, let it brew a little. Arrange on serving plates and garnish with herbs.

Note to housewives

There are a few rules to make your cooking easier:

• Always soak beans for six to eight hours before boiling them.
• You can use canned beans, this will significantly reduce the cooking time.
• Rice is better to use long-grained, steamed. Basmati is considered the ideal variety.

• If you cook pilaf with mushrooms, it is better to take champignons. They do not require long pre-treatment.
• If you took fresh forest mushrooms, be sure to soak them and boil them.