Pilaf with chicken in a pan - a very simple recipe

Kitchen appliances and utensils: knife, cutting board, pan with a thick bottom, hob, slotted spoon, spoon.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. To get started, prepare rice. Send it into a deep bowl, fill it with water, mix and drain it. We do this several times until the water becomes clean. Fill the pilaf with water and set aside for a while.
   
2. Be sure to add a little fat to the pilaf. It can be chicken or pork. But since today we are cooking pilaf from chicken, take 100 g of chicken fat, cut it into small pieces, put it in a pan and put it on a small fire.
   
3. While fat is being cooked, wash the chicken fillet, cut it arbitrarily, in small cubes.
   
4. We clean two onions, wash under running water, cut into half rings.
   
5. After the fat has melted, we send the chopped fillet into the pan, mix everything and fry for 5-7 minutes.
   
6. We peel two carrots, my, cut into small cubes. We send the carrots with onions to the pan with meat, mix, cover. Let it simmer for 15 minutes over low heat.
   
7. After this time, remove the lid, add salt to taste and spices. Spices can use any of your choice. It can be a mixture of spices for pilaf, or you can take coriander, zira, black pepper, cloves separately. Mix everything, cover and leave to simmer another 5 minutes.
   
8. Put the stew with vegetables in the pan, form an even layer. Spread the rice on top, also level it.
   
9. We clean 6 cloves of garlic, wash with a fork on each clove, make cuts and drown each in rice. So garlic will give its flavor better.
   
10. To maintain the integrity of the coating, we take a slotted spoon and pour 700 ml of water through it from above. Water should cover the rice with about 2 fingers.
    
11. We send the pan to the fire. It is better to put on a flame divider so that nothing burns. Bring to a boil, make the fire small and cook for about 25 minutes until rice is fully cooked. Do not mix pilaf during cooking. Only after full readiness can you mix.
    
12. When the pilaf is ready, pour it into portioned dishes and serve as a completely independent dish. If desired, you can sprinkle with chopped herbs.
    

Video recipe

There are many options for cooking pilaf, and each of them has its fans. This recipe is slightly different from the traditional one, but the end result is very tasty. If one step-by-step instruction is not enough for you, and you want to watch the process, then we offer you a video where each cooking step is described in detail.

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