Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
Prepare the ingredients. To prepare pilaf with prunes, we will need: 400 g beef pulp; 400 g rice for pilaf; 100 g seedless prunes; 100 ml vegetable oil; 1 onion; 1 carrot; 1 head of garlic; 1 tbsp seasoning for pilaf; 1 tsp dried barberry; 1 tsp paprika; ½ tsp cumin; ground black pepper and salt to taste.
Step 2:
Wash the beef, dry it, cut it into small pieces.
Step 3:
Peel carrots and onions. Grate carrots on a coarse grater or cut into small slices.
Step 4:
Rinse and dry the prunes. Rinse the rice in cold water.
Step 5:
In a cauldron or a saucepan with a thick bottom, heat part of the vegetable oil. Add the beef and fry, stirring, until a golden crust appears on the meat.
Step 6:
Add carrots. Fry, stirring, for about 5 minutes.
Step 7:
Sprinkle meat with carrots with pilaf seasonings, paprika, dried barberry (if it is not part of the pilaf seasoning); cumin, salt and pepper. Pour 600 ml of boiling water. Simmer for about 40 minutes over low heat.
Step 8:
Add prunes, rice, onion and a whole head of garlic to the cauldron.
Step 9:
The water should completely cover the rice, so pour in more boiling water if necessary.
Step 10:
Bring the water to a boil. Cover the cauldron with a lid and simmer for about 20 minutes until the rice is ready. Remove the finished pilaf from the fire. Let it brew for about 15 minutes.
Step 11:
Mix the pilaf before serving. Enjoy your meal!
Until recently, I always cooked pilaf from pork or - less often - from lamb. But of all the meat, I like beef the most. My favorite second course throughout almost my entire life up to today is pots with beef and prunes under a cheese-mayonnaise crust, and I consider the combination of beef and prunes to be the most successful. Therefore, when I decided to cook pilaf with prunes, the option with pork was not even considered. Thanks to frying on high heat, and then a long stewing on slow, the beef turns out very soft. Therefore, if there are doubts about the choice of meat because of the rigidity, then beef can be safely used.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Zira - 112 kcal/100g
- Prunes - 227 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Barberry - 29 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Spices dry - 240 kcal/100g
- Paprika - 289 kcal/100g
- Beef fillet (steak) - 189 kcal/100g
- Beef fillet (roast beef) - 381 kcal/100g
- Steamed rice - 123 kcal/100g