Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, swahili beef pilau(quick fix). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Swahili Beef Pilau(Quick fix) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Swahili Beef Pilau(Quick fix) is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook swahili beef pilau(quick fix) using 9 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Swahili Beef Pilau(Quick fix):
Get 1 and 1/2 cups of rice
Make ready 1 kg beef(more or less depending with your liking)
Prepare 5 large potatoes. (Halve them)
Make ready 2 tbsp whole pilau spices(Grind to make fresh pilau masala)
Get 2 tbsp garlic and ginger paste
Take 1 tbsp cumin spice powder
Take 2 large onions
Get 1 handful coriander
Make ready 1/2 (1 cup) cooking oil
Instructions 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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