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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pilaf

oriental dish of rice boiled with meat, 1610s, from Turkish pilav, from Persian pilaw. Spelling influenced by Modern Greek pilafi, from the Turkish word.

Wiktionary
pilaf

n. A dish made by browning grain in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added.

WordNet
pilaf

n. rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes [syn: pilaff, pilau, pilaw]

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Pilaf

Pilaf is a dish in which rice is cooked in a seasoned broth. In some cases, the rice may also attain its brown colour by being stirred with pieces of cooked onion, as well as a mix of spices. Depending on the local cuisine, it may also contain meat, fish, vegetables, pasta, and dried fruits.

Pilaf and similar dishes are common to Balkan, Middle Eastern, Caucasian, Central and South Asian, East African, Latin American and Caribbean cuisines. It is a staple food and a national dish in Afghan, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bangladeshi, Balochi, Bukharan Jewish, Cretan, Indian, Iranian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Kurdish, Pakistani, Swahili ( Kenyan, and Tanzanian- Zanzibari), Uyghur, Uzbek, Tajik and Turkish cuisines.

Usage examples of "pilaf".

I heated and reheated your veal cordon bleu and rice pilaf with the fluted mushrooms?

There was a compote of fresh melon and passion fruit sorbet, spinach salad with raspberry vinaigrette followed by breast of chicken in a vermouth and ginger cream sauce, and an exotic rice pilaf containing little bits of dried fruits and pistachio nuts.

They dined on marinated tuna steaks, rice pilaf, and a mixed green salad.

He keeps saying I gotta stop drinking ouzo or anything else, throw away the cigars and the roast lamb, and steaks, and pilaf and kibbe and any damned thing that tastes good, gotta live on nothing but plain salads and broiled fish and dry chicken meat and skim milkeechh!

The colored boxes contained dehydrated potatoes and wheat pilaf, precooked peas, lentils, rice mix.

Marr and Senn arguing over the relative merits of pine nuts in Lebanese pilaf.

He keeps saying I gotta stop drinking ouzo or anything else, throw away the cigars and the roast lamb, and steaks, and pilaf and kibbe and any damned thing that tastes good, gotta live on nothing but plain salads and broiled fish and dry chicken meat and skim milkeechh!

After that we each had half a pheasant with raspberry vinegar sauce and a kind of salon pilaf that Susan made from white and wild rice with pignolia nuts.

Lou was married to a Chinese woman who did the cooking, so the place served an eclectic menu of egg rolls, chow mein, shaslik, rice pilaf, hot and sour soup, baklava and fortune cookies.

Nutmeats, dried fruit, diced vegetables, and even cubes of cooked meat, sausage, seafood or fowl tossed in near the end of the process can turn your pilaf into a complete meal, a biriani or jambalaya.

She had been told five different ways of preparing the gastropods themselves, and had heard four different recipes: boiled snails, fried snails, Cretan snail stew, and snails pilaf.