Crossword clues for pilaf
pilaf
- Steamed rice dish
- Spiced rice dish
- Rice-and-broth dish
- Mideast dish
- Middle Eastern rice dish
- Kebab side dish
- Kebab bed
- Spicy rice
- Spiced rice
- Seasoned rice
- Savory rice dish
- Rice served with kebabs
- Rice preparation
- Rice cooked in seasoned broth
- Rice cooked in broth
- Rice --
- Mideastern mélange
- Mideast seasoned rice
- Mideast rice dish
- Lebanese dish
- Kebab accompaniment, often
- Grainy side
- Eastern rice dish
- Dinner side, perhaps
- Buttery rice preparation
- Mideastern jambalaya
- Rice dish with kebab
- Risotto alternative
- Rice dish with meat
- Kebab go-with
- Rice ___ (dish)
- Steamed dish
- Middle Eastern dish
- Dish cooked in seasoned broth
- Bed for some kebabs
- Starchy dish
- Rice dish cooked in broth
- Risotto relative
- Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes
- Dish served at Rice?
- Rice style
- Culinary creation
- Seasoned rice dish
- Rice recipe
- Dish with seasoned rice
- Rice side dish
- Potatoes alternative
- Turkish jambalaya
- Rice with spice
- Turkish rice dish
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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
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
Wikipedia
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.