How to Prepare Any-night-of-the-week Swahili Beef Pilau(Quick fix)
by Beatrice May
Swahili Beef Pilau(Quick fix)
Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, swahili beef pilau(quick fix). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Swahili Beef Pilau(Quick fix) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Swahili Beef Pilau(Quick fix) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook swahili beef pilau(quick fix) using 9 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Swahili Beef Pilau(Quick fix):
Make ready and 1/2 cups of rice
Make ready beef(more or less depending with your liking)
Get large potatoes. (Halve them)
Get whole pilau spices(Grind to make fresh pilau masala)
Get garlic and ginger paste
Get cumin spice powder
Take large onions
Get coriander
Get cooking oil
Steps to make Swahili Beef Pilau(Quick fix):
Chop onions and fry the till golden brown
Add garlic and ginger paste and cook for about 1 minute. Make sure they don't burn
Add pilau masala and cumin spice and mix well
Add your boiled beef and mix well. Let it cook through for about 2 mins on medium heat
Add salt to your preference
Add your potatoes and mix well. Let it cook for about 2 mins also so that the oil,spices and beef marry nicely with the potatoes
Add coriander and mix for 1 min
Add your rice and mix well
Pour in the beef broth measured as 2 and 1/2 cups. Mix everything well
If using gas cooker, cover the sufuria with a lid and reduce the heat. Let it cook for about 15mins. By now the aroma must be torturing you like crazy :)
If using a jiko,put aside your sufuria and scoop out some hot charcoal and place it on top of your lid
Take two sheets of newspaper,dip them in water and drain off dripping water then cover the top part of the sufuria with them
Place the sufuria lid which has hot charcoal on top and let it cook
The concept of using damp newspaper sheets and covering the lid with hot charcoal is to make the pilau get its authentic infused aroma and make the rice come out one by one(direct translation :D)
You will know your pilau is ready when the potatoes and rice are cooked
Serve while hot and garnish with some lemony kachumbari,chopped dhania and cooked pilipili(will do a recipe on this. No wahala)
Teremsha the sweet pilau with a glass of cold juice or your preferred beverage
Please try this beef pilau recipe and let me know how it turned out. Its a sure quick fix for those days you crave for authentic Swahili pilau
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