Pilaf
Channel: the aleatoric learning channel
Date: 2021-08-18

History Although the cultivation of rice had spread much earlier from South Asia to Central and West Asia, it was at the time of the Abbasid Caliphate that methods of cooking rice which approximate modern styles of cooking the pilaf at first spread through a vast territory from Spain to Afghanistan, and eventually to a wider world. Lapa is an Armenian word with several meanings one of which is a "Watery boiled rice, thick rice soup, mush" and lepe which refers to various rice dishes differing by region. Gara is put on the rice when eating plov, but it is never mixed with rice and the other components. Rice pilaf examples from Azerbaijan Bangladesh In Bangladesh, Polao, Fulao, or Holao, is a popular ceremonial dish cooked only with aromatic rice. The dish "Is something like a version of Italian risotto, except that it involves a long-grain rice, instead of sticky, short-grain arborio. Also, unlike risotto, a pilaf is neither stirred nor simmered on the stove top; it is cooked in the oven, covered by a circle of parchment paper, and achieves a surprisingly delicate puffy texture, as if it has been gently but moistly roasted." Greece In the Greek cuisine, piláfi is fluffy and soft, but neither soupy nor sticky, rice that has been boiled in a meat stock or bouillon broth. Rice pilaf examples from India Iran Persian culinary terms referring to rice preparation are numerous and have found their way into the neighbouring languages: polow, chelow, kateh and tahchin. There are four primary methods of cooking rice in Iran: Chelow: rice that is carefully prepared through soaking and parboiling, at which point the water is drained and the rice is steamed. Pulao is a rice dish, cooked in seasoned broth with rice, meat, and an array of spices including: coriander seeds, cumin, cardamom, cloves and others. To make the best rice according to Turkish people, one must rinse the rice, cook in butter, then add the water and let it sit until it soaks all the water.