Chicken Pilaf
A more delicious and nutritious way to eat your chicken and rice.
Nutrition Facts
Ingredients
- 1 whole chicken or 5 chicken legs with bone
- approx. 5L water
- 2 onions (about 200 g)
- 5 carrots (about 500 g)
- 3 red bell peppers (about 300 g)
- 600 g rice
- 1 large or 2 small cans of sliced mushrooms (about 300 g drained)
- 1/4 teaspoon of curry
- 2-3 tablespoons Vegeta seasoning (about 25 g)
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper (about 2 g)
- 3 bay leaves
If you like to eat chicken breast, rice, and broccoli every day, good for you. I don't! I also don't like to eat the traditional chicken pilaf that is full of fat. What makes this pilaf superior? It has little fat as I threw away all the chicken's skin (mostly fat) and fat. Also, it has flavour and lots of vegetables. The big secret is the full chicken as the bones provide lots of flavour and collagen. I am lucky enough to have chicken from the country, but we all do what we can.
What I like the most about this recipe is that it lasts my wife and me four days. If you have kids, it will last 2-3 days.
If you have a food processor and pressure cooker, it is also easy to make and most time is spent doing nothing as the pressure cooker does most of the job. I am repeating myself in every article, but please do yourself a favor and buy a food processor and pressure cooker. If you don't have these what are you doing here anyway? Enough said.
Instructions
- 1.Cut the chicken into smaller pieces, remove the skin and fat
- 2.Put it in the pressure cooker for 30 minutes with about 2L of water (until the chicken is soaked in water). If you don't have a pressure cooker, boil it in a big pan for 1 hour. If the meat is tougher (farm-raised chicken), you will need to cook it for about 1 and a half hours.
- 3.Put the onions, carrots, and peppers in the food processor and chop in small fine pieces
- 4.When the chicken is finished, remove it and put it in a separate bowl to cool a bit.
- 5.Remove any extra fat from the water where the chicken was cooked until you can see the liquid relatively clear.
- 6.In the water where the chicken was cooked, put the rice, the chopped vegetables, the mushrooms, the additional water (until about 5L), the spices, and the herbs
- 7.Set the rice program at the pressure cooker and cook (approx. 9 minutes). If you don't have a pressure cooker, you may need to cook for 30 minutes. I recommend putting it in the oven so the rice doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan.
- 8.Remove the bones from the chicken and chop the meat into smaller pieces. I used my hands, not a knife.
- 9.Mix the cooked vegetables with the chicken after they finished cooking.
- 10.Enjoy!
