Chicken Pilaf.
Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, chicken pilaf. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chicken Pilaf is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it's fast, it tastes yummy. Chicken Pilaf is something which I've loved my entire life. They're fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chicken pilaf using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Pilaf:
- {Make ready of large knob butter.
- {Make ready of banana shallots, diced.
- {Take of garlic, chopped.
- {Get of leek, sliced.
- {Get of celery, sliced.
- {Take of unsmoked bacon, diced.
- {Take of chestnut mushrooms, sliced.
- {Get of peppers (one each red & green), deseeded and sliced.
- {Get of cooked chicken, diced.
- {Prepare of long-grain rice.
- {Take of sumac.
- {Make ready of Salt.
- {Prepare of Ground black pepper.
- {Make ready of dry white wine.
- {Prepare of chicken stock.
- {Make ready of large tomato, cut into wedges.
- {Take of Coriander or parsley to garnish (optional - I omitted this time).
Steps to make Chicken Pilaf:
- Pre-heat oven to Gas Mark 3 or electric equivalent (Circotherm 150C).
- Melt the butter in a casserole and gently fry the shallots for 4 minutes,stirring only to avoid sticking..
- Add the garlic and fry for a further 2 minutes, stirring gently..
- Stir in the leek and continue frying for another 2 minutes. Then add the celery and bacon, stirring occasionally, and after 3 minutes stir in the mushrooms, then the peppers. Stir all gently but thoroughly for 1 minute..
- Add the chicken, rice, sumac, salt and pepper. Stir thoroughly again..
- Add wine and stock and bring to the boil. Cover and put in oven for 35-40 minutes, or until the liquid is absorbed and the rice cooked..
- Check after around 25 minutes that the rice mixture hasn’t “run dry”. It rarely happens but, if so, just add a splash or two of water. This is not a risotto so the aim is not to have a “wet” plate of food, just nice, fluffy, moist rice..
- Top with the tomato wedges and, if wished, coriander or parsley garnish. Serve onto warmed plates..
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