Chicken Pilaf With Pine Nuts And Currants Food

COUSCOUS WITH PINE NUTS

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large saucepan. Add the shallots and cook them over medium-low heat for 3 minutes, until translucent. Add the chicken stock, salt, and pepper and bring to a boil. Turn off the heat. Stir in the couscous, cover the pan, and set aside for 10 minutes. Add the pine nuts, currants, and parsley and fluff with a fork to combine. Serve hot.

CHICKEN PILAF WITH DILL & PINE NUTS

Steps:

• Rinse the rice until the water runs clear, then drain. Heat the oil in a medium pan and fry the onion for 5 mins. Stir in the chicken, allspice and tomato purée, and cook for 2 mins more. Add the rice, stock and half the dill, then bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat slightly and simmer for 8 mins.
• Stir in the beans and cook for 2-3 mins more until the rice is cooked and liquid has been absorbed. Stir in the pine nuts and remaining dill with some seasoning.

RICE PILAF WITH PUMPKIN, CURRANTS AND PINE NUTS

Steps:

• Warm olive oil in a heavy-bottomed pot with a lid or Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add pumpkin, season with salt, and cook, stirring, until pumpkin begins to brown, 5 to 8 minutes. Remove and set aside, leaving oil in pot.
• Add onion and cook, stirring, until quite brown, about 5 minutes. Add pine nuts and let them brown a bit. Add currants, pepper, allspice and cinnamon.
• Stir in the rice and cook for 2 minutes more, making sure rice is well coated with oil. Add broth or water and 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to a bare simmer. Taste broth and adjust for salt - it should be quite well seasoned. Add reserved pumpkin, cover with a lid, and cook over very low heat until all liquid is absorbed, about 20 minutes. Turn off heat, and let rice steam with lid on for 10 to 15 minutes. Add butter and fluff rice gently with two wooden spoons.

RICE PILAF WITH CURRANTS AND PINE NUTS

Steps:

• Melt butter in skillet. Add the rice and brown till slightly golden. Add broth and water carefully. Add the currants, bring to a boil and cover and cook on low heat for about 45 minute to an hour. Don't peek at it. Serve with the pine nuts on top.

RICE AND CHICKEN PILAF WITH DRIED CURRANTS AND TOASTED ALMONDS

Steps:

• Heat oil in heavy large deep skillet (preferably nonstick) over medium-high heat. Add onion and sauté until golden, about 5 minutes. Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. Add chicken and garlic to skillet; sauté until chicken is no longer pink, about 4 minutes. Stir in rice, currants, and cinnamon sticks. Add broth and bring to boil. Reduce heat to low; cover and cook until rice is tender and most liquid is absorbed, about 20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer to bowl. Discard cinnamon. Sprinkle with almonds.

CHICKEN PILAF WITH NUTS AND CURRANTS

Steps:

• sprinkle 1/2 teaspoon of salt and black pepper all over chicken, in large nonstick skillet heat half of olive oil over med-high heat, brown chicken about 10 minutes, transfer to plate, pour off fat from pan.
• add butter and remaining olive oil to pan, heat until butter foams, add onion and garlic, cook 2 minutes. stir in almonds and currants, cook, stirring until nuts darken about 3 minutes. add rice, allspice, cinnamon, cumin, and remaining salt, cook for 2 minutes, stirring to coat grains.
• add stock and 1 1/4 cups water.
• nestle chicken in rice mixture, bring to a boil. reduce heat to low, cover and cook until rice is tender and juices from chicken run clear when chicken is pierced, about 30 minutes.
• remove from heat, let stand covered for 10 minutes. fluff rice with fork.
• sprinkle with dill (if using) and serve.

CHICKEN LIVER PILAF

Steps:

• Cook the livers in 1 tblsp of the butter, and when firm outside, cool and mince into small cubes.
• Saute the onion and livers in the remaining butter.
• Add the rice and stir to coat the rice with fat.
• Cook like this for 2 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Add the water, currants, pine nuts and spices and bring to the boil.
• Cover and cook for about 20 minutes, when all the water has been absorbed and the rice is cooked.
• Remove lid of pan, cover with a clean dish towel and replace lid.
• Allow to steam for 10 minutes.
• Remove lid and fluff rice with a fork.
• Note: if you have chicken stock, replace the water with that and forego the stock cube.

RICE PILAF WITH PINE NUTS AND GOLDEN RAISINS

Steps:

• In heavy saucepan cook the onion with the turmeric and coriander in the melted butter until the onion is softened.
• Add the rice and stir to coat. Add the broth, bring the liquid to a boil and simmer, covered, for 17 minutes or until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is tender.
• Stir in the pine nuts and raisins, add salt and pepper to taste.

CHICKEN PILAF WITH PINE NUTS AND CURRANTS

Steps:

• Chop chicken into bit size pieces. Sprinkle 1/2 tsp of the salt and pepper all over chicken.
• In large nonstick skillet, heat half of the oil over medium-high heat; brown chicken, about 10 minutes. Transfer to plate; pour off fat in pan.
• Add butter and remaining oil to pan; heat until butter is foaming. Add onion and garlic; cook for 2 minutes. Stir in pine nuts and currants; cook, stirring, until the pine nuts are browned, about 3 minutes (watch carefully as they can go from brown to burnt very quickly).
• Add rice, allspice, cumin and remaining salt, cook for 2 minutes, stirring to coat rice.
• Add the chicken stock. Place the chicken on top of the rice mixture, bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to low to very low (depending on heat of your stovetop), cover and cook until rice is tender, about 20 - 30 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand, covered, for 10 minutes. Fluff rice with fork.