# Pilau

This video shows how to cook pilau, a Swahili dish, with beef, peas, potatoes, carrots, and spices.

- Cuisine: Indian
- Category: Drink
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- capsicum
- carrots
- 2 large onions
- 1 cup peas
- a few potatoes cut in half or not
- 3 tbspn pilau masala
- few cardamom pods
- 2 tbspn cumin powder
- 1 tbsp garlic
- beef stock
- 500 grms beef
- 500 grms rice
- 0.66 cup oil
- to taste salt
- to taste lemon juice
- sliced onion
- bell pepper
- carrots
- ripe tomatoes without seeds

## Instructions

1. Place the meat in the hot oil and fry until it turns light brown.
2. Put in the onions and fry until golden brown.
3. Add crushed garlic.
4. Add pilau masala,iliki nzima, uzile wa unga, and kitunguu saumu and cook for 2 minutes on medium heat.
5. Add the rice.
6. Make sure all the rice is covered in spice and cook for 1 minute.
7. Pour in the stock.
8. Add salt to taste.
9. Put in the potatoes and peas.
10. Bury in the potatoes, put the lid on and let it cook.
11. When the water dries up put in the veggies and continue cooking.
12. Mix the rice, put the lid back on and cook for 7 more minutes.
13. Serve pilau.
14. Add sliced onion, thinly sliced bell pepper, chopped pepper and thinly sliced carrots.
15. Add medium ripe tomatoes thinly sliced without seeds.
16. Add salt and lemon juice to taste.

## Tips

- The recipe uses pilau masala and uzile (cumin), adding flavor and aroma.
- Adding fat meat provides extra taste to the pilau.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvcOY6e_k3g&pp=ygUMa3VwaWthIHBpbGF1
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/b7aa0df9-b198-44fc-83a4-028784592855
- Extracted: 2025-05-14

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