Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make bulgur pilaf with turkey? Wash the turkey breast fillet under running water and dry with paper towels. Cut the fillet into small portions.
Step 2:
Heat the sunflower oil in a non-stick frying pan with high sides, and fry the turkey on medium heat until golden brown on all sides.
Step 3:
Since we have pre-dried the fillet, it should not shoot much on the sides. Use a spatula to stir the meat periodically so that it does not burn. I fried the turkey for about 5 minutes.
Step 4:
Then add the onion, cut into half rings, and sweet carrots, chopped into thin strips. Traditionally, a lot of onions and carrots are put in pilaf, and we will not spare them. Stir and fry for 5 minutes.
Step 5:
Pour dry bulgur into the pan (you can pre-rinse it). Add salt and pepper to taste, add cumin, turmeric and barberry. Sour barberry is a perfect match for any pilaf. Mix it up.
Step 6:
Pour boiling water over the pilaf and add the peeled garlic cloves. Why pour it with boiling water? Thus, the heat treatment process will not stop, which will inevitably happen if the pilaf is filled with cold water. Cover with a lid and simmer the pilaf for about 40 minutes.
Step 7:
You may have to pour water into the pan during cooking, which I did. But since everyone's plates and dishes are different, be guided by the situation. The pilaf will be ready when the bulgur increases in volume, the water boils, and the garlic becomes soft.
Bulgur pilaf with turkey turns out to be less caloric than traditional. Bulgur itself is more elastic than rice. And the rest of this pilaf is very similar to the traditional one. It is delicious, fragrant and satisfying.
Serve with fresh vegetables and herbs.
Bon appetit!
If you use ready-made spice mixes for pilaf, be sure to read the composition on the package. Often, salt is already present in such mixtures. Keep this in mind, otherwise you risk over-salting the dish.
Turkey can be replaced with chicken or any other type of meat at your request. But in this case, the cooking time and calorie content of the dish will change.
Wash the meat, be sure to dry it with a paper towel, otherwise excessive moisture will not allow it to fry - it will stew.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Turmeric - 325 kcal/100g
- Zira - 112 kcal/100g
- Bulgur - 342 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Barberry - 29 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Ground hot pepper - 21 kcal/100g
- Turkey breast - 84 kcal/100g