Steps to Make Favorite Jeweled Rice Pilaf

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, jeweled rice pilaf. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Jeweled Rice Pilaf is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Jeweled Rice Pilaf is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook jeweled rice pilaf using 17 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Jeweled Rice Pilaf:

1. Make ready 4 tbsp olive oil
2. Get 2 tbsp unsalted butter
3. Make ready 1 medium onion - finely chopped
4. Take 500 g basmati rice - washed,soaked and drained
5. Take 1/4 tsp ground cardamom
6. Take 50 g lentils - washed,soaked and drained
7. Make ready 1/4 tsp ground cumin
8. Take 1 medium carrot - julienned
9. Make ready 1 pinch salt
10. Make ready 1/4 tsp ground turmeric
11. Prepare 600 ml water - to cook rice
12. Prepare 1/4 tsp saffron threads - soaked in a little hot water
13. Prepare 50 g dates - pitted and chopped
14. Prepare 50 g unsalted pistachios - toasted
15. Get 50 g slivered almonds - toasted
16. Get 50 g raisins
17. Get 50 g dried cranberries

Instructions to make Jeweled Rice Pilaf:

1. Heat oil and butter in a rice pot then add the onions and sauté it until fragrant and translucent. Stir in the rice and lentils, followed by the carrot, cardamom, cumin, turmeric and salt. Add sufficient water to cover the rice and leave to cook.
2. When rice is halfway done, pour the saffron with the water into the rice cooker and be mindful not to stir. Once rice is cooked, stir in half the dates, nuts, raisins and berries, and scatter the rest over the rice when serving.

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