Sweet pilaf – recipe

The content of the article

• Secrets of making delicious sweet pilaf
• Sweet pilaf recipe
• Sweet pilaf with apples
• Classic sweet pilaf with dried fruits
• With carrots and walnuts
• With raisins
• In a slow cooker
• With pumpkin
• With fresh fruit

Every housewife knows the traditional recipes of pilaf with meat or chicken, but few know that there is an unusual variety of this dish – sweet pilaf, popular among many peoples of the East. Its recipes are found in Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Turkmen and Kazakh cuisines. Such a pilaf will delight children; it will suit both vegetarians and those who observe the fast, since the dish is prepared without meat.

Secrets of making delicious sweet pilaf

To get tasty and beautiful, as in the photo in the cookbooks, sweet pilaf, you need to know some tips from experienced housewives. Follow them, and the result will not disappoint you:

• For the dish, round or long steamed rice is suitable. It needs to be removed from starch, washing well.
• Do not add sugar, it will replace dried fruits. When choosing, pay attention to the appearance: raisins should be light and soft, dried apricots without spots and damage.
• Barberry, zira, ginger, caraway seeds, saffron, black pepper, hops-suneli, sometimes mint, coriander is undesirable for spices.
• Traditionally, the dish is cooked in dishes with thick walls: a cauldron, a stewpan, a cast iron, a cast-iron goose.
• In the process of preparing rice, the most difficult thing is to add liquid: pour a lot – the dish will boil, a little – it will burn. Strictly follow the recipe.

Sweet pilaf recipe

The preparation of sweet pilaf has several variations: with dried fruits, with the addition of pumpkins and carrots, with fresh fruits, with caramelized apples. Nuts are added, spices add an additional aroma. In addition to the difference in ingredients, the cooking technology is different: in Armenian products are combined and brought to readiness together, in Azerbaijani they “get to know” only when served on the table.

Sweet pilaf with apples

• Time: 50 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 3 Persons.
• Calorie content: 320 kcal per 100 g.
• Purpose: for breakfast, holiday.
• Cuisine: Transcaucasian.
• Difficulty: Easy.

Rice with the addition of fresh fruits is considered healthier than with dried. It’s all about vitamin C, half of which is lost when dried. Apples in the recipe will replenish the supply of a useful substance. The combination of fruit and cinnamon will give a festive, advent Christmas fragrance. You can serve pilaf at the table on Christmas Eve or at children’s gatherings with friends.

Ingredients:

• sweet rice – a glass of 200 ml;
• apples – 150 g;
• olive oil – 3 tbsp;
• raisins – 0.25 glasses;
• sugar (brown priority) – 1 tsp;
• salt to taste;
• saffron – to taste;
• ground cinnamon – to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Rinse thoroughly, put to dry.
2. Pour olive oil into a skillet, heat, add rice, fry it for 4 minutes over medium heat, stir occasionally.
3. Scald raisins with boiling water, drain the water.
4. Add salt, cinnamon, saffron, processed raisins.
5. Add hot water to the products in small portions. Pour every time rice absorbs liquid.
6. Between sets with water add diced apples, sugar, mix.
7. Continue adding water, stirring the porridge until it becomes a consistency.

Classic sweet pilaf with dried fruits

• Time: 20 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 4 Persons.
• Calorie content: 319 kcal per 100 g.
• Purpose: for lunch.
• Cuisine: Uzbek.
• Difficulty: Easy.

The classic recipe for pilaf implies the presence of dried fruits. This is mainly dried apricots and raisins, but you can add dates, dried bananas, figs, and other types to taste. The sweetness of the dish adds honey. Products are selected so that pilaf is suitable even for dieters. Optionally, chopped nuts sprinkle on top of a classic recipe before serving.

Ingredients:

• steamed rice – 1.5 cups;
• raisins – 50 g;
• water – 3, 5 glasses;
• honey – 4 tbsp;
• barberry – 1 pinch.
• dried apricots – 150 g;
• olive oil – 3 tbsp;

Cooking method:

1. Wash, chop dried fruits, rinse rice.
2. In a casserole, warm the oil, add dried fruits, stew for 3 minutes.
3. Add rice, simmer for a couple of minutes, stirring constantly.
4. Add remaining ingredients, fill with water, cover.
5. Cook for 25-35 minutes over low heat, checking readiness. After removing from heat, cover for another 15 minutes.

With carrots and walnuts

• Time: 35 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 4 Persons.
• Calorie dishes: 395 kcal.
• Purpose: for lunch.
• Cuisine: Armenian.
• Difficulty: Easy.

In the pilaf recipe with the addition of walnuts, rice acquires a rich color due to the addition of carrots. For a full flavor disclosure of all ingredients, the products must be properly processed: prunes and dried apricots are simply chopped, raisins are left in boiling water for 15 minutes, and nuts are pre-fried in a dry frying pan without oil for several minutes.

Ingredients:

• rice – 200 g;
• water – 2 glasses;
• raisins, prunes, dried apricots – 50 g each;
• chopped walnuts – 100 g;
• butter – 100 g;
• finely ground carrots – 75 g.

Cooking method:

1. Fry the carrots grated in oil, add dried fruits, simmer for 3 minutes.
2. Add rice, a little salt, pour hot water, leave it under the lid for 25-30 minutes.
3. Remove from heat, add nuts, let stand for another 15 minutes under the lid.

With raisins

• Time: 20 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 5 Persons.
• Calorie content: 175 kcal per 100 g.
• Destination: for the holiday.
• Cuisine: European.
• Difficulty: Easy.

A simple, economical, dietary option for pilaf is rice with raisins. By consistency, porridge should be boiled, and dried fruits should be soft. The recipe is simple and in the use of spices and additives: housewives use vanillin, flavored with sugar. Cinnamon lovers are allowed to add it for flavor, but don’t be zealous so as not to lose the basic taste.

Ingredients:

• white rice – 1 tbsp .;
• water – 2 tbsp .;
• butter – 50 g;
• raisins – 50 g;
• vanillin – 0.5 g;
• salt – 2 g.
• sugar – 0.5 tbsp;

Cooking method:

1. Rinse rice and raisins.
2. Add rice, water to a pot with a thick bottom, cook for 8-10 minutes.
3. Add the remaining products, mix, cook for 15 minutes.

In a slow cooker

• Time: 1 hour.
• Servings Per Container: 3 Persons.
• Calorie content: 150 kcal per 100 g.
• Purpose: for a children’s afternoon snack.
• Cuisine: Central Asian.
• Difficulty: Easy.

You can cook pilaf not only in containers with a thick bottom, but also in a slow cooker. The device will help to save personal time. For cooking, you only need to prepare the products and put the slow cooker in the desired mode, which is called “Pilaf”. The dish turns out friable, fragrant due to spices and sweet because of dried fruits. No sugar added.

Ingredients:

• rice – 1 cup per 200 ml;
• olive oil – 10 ml;
• water – 400 ml;
• carrots – half;
• dried figs – 3 pcs.;
• prunes, dried apricots – 5 pcs.;
• raisins – 30 g;
• turmeric – 0.5 tsp;
• salt – 0.5 tsp.

Cooking method:

1. Lubricate the crock-pot with olive oil, add chopped carrots, raisins, dried apricots, prunes, figs, add turmeric.
2. Rinse rice, put in products in a bowl, salt, pour water, start the slow cooker.
3. Cook until multicooker signal.

With pumpkin

• Time: 1 hour 10 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 4 Persons.
• Calorie content: 221 kcal per 100 g.
• Purpose: for lunch, dinner.
• Cuisine: Transcaucasian.
• Difficulty: Easy.

Pilaf with pumpkin will appeal to lovers of healthy and satisfying food. The dish is rich in vitamins due to fresh ingredients, and rice makes it non-nutritious. Children will also enjoy the treat: the combination of quince, apple and pumpkin gives the rice a sweetness. Products must be properly processed: peel, rinse well. Pumpkin should be thoroughly cleaned, remove grains.

Ingredients:

• rice – 1.5 cups;
• pumpkin – 500 g;
• apple – 3 pcs.;
• quince, raisins – 100 g each;
• butter – 120 g.

Cooking method:

1. Prepare the fruit, peel the pumpkin, wash the raisins and rice.
2. Melt 60 g of oil in a pan, cover the bottom with even slices of pumpkin with the pulp up.
3. Pour a portion of rice onto a pumpkin, put slices of fruit, and cover with rice. There will be three layers in total.
4. Top with salt, put the remaining oil, completely fill with water to the last level.
5. Cook under the lid in 50-60 minutes.

With fresh fruit

• Time: 1 hour.
• Servings Per Container: 5 Persons.
• Calorie dishes: 210 kcal per 100 g.
• Purpose: for a children’s holiday, lunch.
• Cuisine: Asian.
• Difficulty: Easy.

Pilaf can be prepared without the use of dried fruits, completely replacing them with fresh fruits. Instead of peaches and cherry plum, which are used in the recipe, you can independently choose a set of fruits (apricots, plums, raspberries, pineapples). Pomegranate juice syrup, which pours rice before serving, will give a special piquancy.

Ingredients:

• rice – 200 g;
• vegetable oil – 150 g;
• saffron infusion – 1 tbsp;
• peaches – 3 pcs.;
• cherry plum – 1 glass;
• peeled almonds – 100 g;
• honey – 2 tbsp .;
• pomegranate juice – half a glass;
• ground cinnamon – 1 tsp;
• cloves – 2 pcs..
• sugar – 2 tbsp;

Cooking method:

1. Rinse and boil rice until half cooked, then rinse it with cold water.
2. Put half in thick-bottomed dishes, add melted butter, level, cover, simmer for 30 minutes.
3. Fry washed, julienne fruits, almonds until golden brown.
4. Cook syrup from juice, sugar, honey. When the liquid boils, add the fried foods, cook for 3-4 minutes.
5. Serve the rice, pre-watering it with syrup, garnish with strawberries.