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Pilav (Turkish Buttered Rice)

Name: Pilav (Turkish Buttered Rice)
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: 2 cups Rice; 2 tbsp Butter; 2 tbsp Broken vermicelli noodles; 1 tsp Chicken bouillon; 1/2 tsp Salt; 400ml Water

Rice Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 2

Difficulty ⭐

Rice toasted in butter then simmered — fragrant, fluffy, and a fixture of the Turkish table.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

An essential accompaniment on the Turkish table, appearing alongside meat dishes and soups almost daily. The basic method is toasting rice in butter before simmering it in chicken stock, and some households mix in broken vermicelli (şehriye) too.

🌆 Where it's eaten: A family dinner in Ankara: golden pilav sits beside a simmering pot of meat that's cooked all afternoon — an inseparable pair.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 2)

Rice 2 cups
Butter 2 tbsp
Broken vermicelli noodles 2 tbsp
Chicken bouillon 1 tsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 400ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Use the rice unrinsed.
Heat butter in a pot and toast the vermicelli until lightly golden.
Add the rice and toast until translucent.
Add the water, chicken bouillon, and salt.
Once boiling, cover and cook over low heat for 15 minutes.
Remove from heat, let steam 10 minutes, then fluff and serve.

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