Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, green rice (zamarod pilaf). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Green rice (Zamarod pilaf) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Green rice (Zamarod pilaf) is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
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. Add the stock or water and a good sprinkling of salt and pepper and bring to a boil. You need day-old rice to make this vibrant, springy pilaf recipe, but it's worth planning ahead.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have green rice (zamarod pilaf) using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Green rice (Zamarod pilaf):
- Prepare rice, soaked in salted water for 1-2 hours before cooking
- Take large bunch of fresh spinach, washed, drained and chopped
- Make ready large onion
- Prepare diced beef or lamb meat and broth, Cooked
- Take cumin
- Take pepper
- Get Salt
- Prepare Olive oil
Just adjust cooking time if using a different kind of rice or pan size. Garnish with green onions and serve with a runny poached egg on top if desired. Transfer to bowl, and serve sprinkled with watercress leaves and pumpkin seeds, if using. In a large pot, heat the oil over high.
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.
Transfer to bowl, and serve sprinkled with watercress leaves and pumpkin seeds, if using. 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. Perfect for your holiday feasting table or a side for a Middle Eastern meal!
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