Tanzania / Main
Zanzibar pilau
Rice with beef on the island's spices: clove, cardamom, cinnamon and black pepper, and no turmeric at all.
Ingredients
- Beef, diced800 g
- Basmati rice600 g
- Onions, thinly sliced4
- Cloves10
- Cardamom pods8
- Cinnamon stick2
- Cumin seed2 tsp
- Black peppercorns1 tsp
- Garlic6 cloves
- Ginger40 g
- Potatoes3
- Vegetable oil100 ml
- Saltto taste
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 7 steps
Rinse the rice until the water runs clear and soak it twenty minutes.
Simmer the beef with half the spices for forty minutes, until tender. Keep the broth.
Fry the onion in oil over medium heat for twenty minutes, to a deep brown, almost black.
Add the garlic, ginger and the remaining spices and warm them two minutes.
Add the cooked meat and the diced potato, stir and warm through five minutes.
Add the rice, pour in broth at one and a half times the volume of the rice, and season.
Bring it up, cover and cook twenty minutes on a low heat without lifting the lid. Rest it ten minutes.
