How to Cook Perfect Turkish Pilaf . Turkish Rice Pilaf Recipes

Today our recipe is Turkish Rice known as “Turkish Pilav”. It is one of the irreplaceable recipe which on our tables.

It is served with all kind of dishes or salads and sometimes together with Yogurt. Hereby, I am going to show you the tricks of how to cook perfect Turkish Rice ( pilav) easily.

The most important thing of cooking pilav is type of rice. In Turkey we called it “Baldo Rice”. If You do not avalible to buy this kind of rice please try the recipe without adding so much water and prefer to replenish it according to the cooking time of rice slowly.

The second tip is leaving rice into the cold water with some salt and waiting 30-45 minute.

The third is roasting rice into the mixed olive oil & ghee (or butter) about 5 minutes.

And the last one is after the roasting step add hot water and not turn heat to low for 3 minutes. This allows keeping starch in the rice and also not blending to the water unless it causes the pilav to be mashed.

For the details please watch the video below , good luck !

Ingredients

2  Cup Rice

2 tbspn Olive Oil

3 Tbspn Ghee or Butter

2 Tspn Salt

3,5 Cup Hot water

Directions

Wash the rice 2 times.

Leave into the cold water with adding some salt for 30-45 minute.

Wash the rice again and drain whole water

Take a pan and turn heat on

Add olive oil and ghee in to the pan and mix  rice gently

Add hot water and wait 3 minute on heavy heat

Now turn heat low and close the lid. Cook for 20 minute more.

After 20 minute open the pan and turn upside down and cook 5 minute more.

Finally put a clean and uncented fabric to top and close the lid.

Wait for steep.

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