Pilau rice using brown rice
This pilau rice is very easy to make and deliciously flavored that you'll be making this recipe quite often
Servings: 2 people
Calories:
Cost: 3€
Equipment
- Cooking spoon
- knife
Ingredients
Simple Pilau Recipe Using Brown Rice
- 2 cups boiling water or broth
- ½ teaspoon cumin seed, I used black cumin
- 4 pods cardamom
- I tablespoon 4 spice mix
- 1 teaspoon sweet paprika
- fresh ground pepper
- 3 cloves of garlic
- piece of ginger
- 1 medium onion
- 2 tablespoon olive oil /coconut oil
- 1 cup brown rice (ideally soaked for 6 hours)
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Soak your brown rice for about 6 hours to soften it. Rinse it about 10 and let it drain out all the water
- Boil water in your boiler, if you aren't using a boiler, boil water in a saucepan
- In another saucepan, put the cumin and cardamom seeds and put on the heat at low heat, and cover the pan.
- During that time, dice the onions
- Add them in the saucepan together with the other spices and stir well cover
- Mince the ginger and the garlic.
- Add the olive oil, to the cooking onions.
- Add the minced ginger and garlic, stir and cover, but stir now and then.
- Let them cook for 5 mins on moderate-high heat as you stir now and then
- Add the soaked rice, Make sure it's dry, it should not have extra water. Stir the rice and onions
- Cover and keep on stirring. This should take about 3 minute
- Slowly add 2 cups of boiling water or a broth into the cooking onions, scrape the base to get the stuck spices, add salt, stir and cover
- Increase the heat to start the boiling, after the boiling has picked up, lower the heat to low and let the pilau cook slowly till all water is absorbed
- Please don't stir anymore.
- Let the pilau rice cool before serving.
- Serve with veggies, in salad and guess what you can enjoy it as it is.
- This pilau rice with brown was served with garlic tomato soup.
- Please do rate and leave your comment to let me know how you managed with your pilau rice.
Notes
Depending on your heat source the cooking time can vary. I can sometimes cook this pilau longer in a very low heat when there's heat wave like today here in France.