The very first dish that is prepared after buying a multicooker is probably pilaf. This dish is very popular among lovers of tasty and nutritious snack. And chicken pilaf is prepared much faster and easier.
Chicken is quick to prepare and more affordable. Even if you have a multicooker (for example, Redmond, Polaris or Philips) has a "Pilaf" mode, you should not only use it in cooking. By adding all the ingredients and turning on the "Pilaf" mode, you can get ordinary rice porridge with chicken, but not pilaf with its exquisite taste.
Features of cooking pilaf with chicken in a slow cooker
To get a real tasty pilaf, you first need to cook zirvak. Zirvak is a base for pilaf or gravy. It must be cooked in a calcined multicooker bowl. Chopped onions, carrots and then chicken are added to the hot oil. Then everything is sprinkled with spices and fried, periodically half-mixing, so that the products do not burn. After that, rice is poured, salt, sugar if desired, turmeric are added and everything is poured with hot water. Now you can turn on the "Pilaf" mode. After the multicooker informs about the end of cooking, do not immediately open the lid - let the pilaf stand a little in the "Heating" mode. This will give the pilaf a more crumbly texture and flavor.
In addition to rice, meat and chicken, some gourmets also add dried apricots, prunes or raisins to pilaf. Such dried fruits can enhance the taste of chicken meat well. You can also add mushrooms, various vegetables and seafood to pilaf. Everything leans towards the taste of the chef who prepares this dish.
Step-by-step recipe for chicken pilaf with ginger
Components required for cooking:
- one chicken
- two cups of polished rice
- three onions
- one or two carrots
- one head of garlic
- two tablespoons of ginger
- 1.5 tablespoon dried barberry
- 6 glasses of water
- salt, pepper, spices, herbs and vegetable oil - taste.
- Here the glass is the glass of the multicooker.
Preparation
- Heat about four tablespoons of oil in a bowl in the "Fry" mode.
- Put the pre-chopped onion in the oil and fry until golden brown.
- Cut the chicken into pieces together with the bones, after removing the skins and put on the onion.
- Fry for another 15 minutes.
- Then add spices and three glasses of water and stand for 20 minutes on the "Stew" mode.
- Then add chopped carrots, salt and washed rice. Now you can pour in the remaining hot water.
- Set the "Pilaf" mode and add the head of garlic, ginger and barberry before the end of cooking.
- After the multicooker finishes cooking, let it stand for another 20 minutes in the "Heat" mode.
- The pilaf is ready.
- Serve hot with herbs.
The dish turns out to be very aromatic and tasty due to the combination of chicken meat, spices and barberry with ginger. This food will be appreciated by the whole family.
