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Easiest Pilau Rice

Prep

10m

Cook

15m

Total

25m

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Easiest Pilau Rice

Prep

10m

Cook

15m

Total

25m

Ingredients

Method

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Step 1

Find a pan with a snug fitting lid. Add two dessert spoons of ghee or three spoons of neutral oil or butter.

For

4

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2

dessert spoon

Ghee, or neutral oil or butter with 1 extra spoon

1 1/2

tsp

Cumin seeds

3

Black cardamom pods, or green or neither if you don’t have them

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Colin

a month ago

Rice is quite hard and almost crunchy! Any advice please? Think it’s me not the recipe as the flavour is great

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Nisha

25 days ago

OK sooo double the water and this time cook it on a lower heat slower

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Colin

25 days ago

Thanks Nisha. Everything else is turning out well. Loving it

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Allison C

a month ago

Perfect rice. Used unwashed basmati rice as I hate washing rice! Have tried making it with green cardamom but so much nicer with black cardamom. So easy to do. I do it first then leave it whilst I prepare the rest of the meal.

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Matthew B

a month ago

So easy to do, Thank you x much better than other online methods I have tried before

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Billy W

3 months ago

Mine was good but I found it’s still a little water and hard any tips

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Nisha

3 months ago

turn the heat down a little next time and let it cook without a lid until quite dry- then lid on- must be basmati and I do like my rice with a little bite

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Billy W

3 months ago

Ok thank you Nisha when I went back later on it was perfect so I’m not sure haha but if was so good

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Billy W

3 months ago

I think it was just me to be honest I had some later on and was amazing haha

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Christine S

4 months ago

I have cooked this a few times now, finally I can cook rice to perfection this made my day no more hard or mushy rice, a very happy 😊 lady here.

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Bruce

5 months ago

It worked very well. What would be the proportion of water to rice if I use brown rice? 2.5 to 1?

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Nisha

5 months ago

It would be the same Bruce but add a 1/4 more water just because the heat will be lower and slower for the cook I will do a video

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Bruce

5 months ago

Thanks so much!

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Nicky Hamill

5 months ago

So so good Easy to follow we've made this twice a week for 3 months

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Christopher P

5 months ago

This is now my go to rice. Loved by the family.

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Julia S

6 months ago

Easy and tasty

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Nisha

6 months ago

so glad

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Christopher P

6 months ago

Added some frozen green beans too lovely

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Pat

6 months ago

Perfect rice every time

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Louise L

7 months ago

I made this tonight. I used black cardamom pods (love them!) and bay leaves. It turned out just perfect! I didn’t soak the rice. I’ve rinsed and then soaked rice for years. This is the way forward! 😁

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Nisha

7 months ago

how utterly brilliant!

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Gill D

8 months ago

Came out fine but I need to be a bit braver at the panic point, as it could have done with a couple more minutes. But still tasty 😋

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Nisha

8 months ago

go again Gill!!!!

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Sarah J

8 months ago

I’ve just made this to go with the Chicken Dhansak recipe. I didn’t have any black cardamons (I’ve never used them in honesty). ChatGPT said they are robust and smokey, compared to the delicate green variety, so I used 3 green pods, and substituted the salt with smoked Anglesey sea salt. I also used toasted almonds, as that’s all I had in. It turned out fabulous!. Thank you so much x

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Nisha

8 months ago

I LOVE that you made it so very much your own- Bravo!

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Christine C

8 months ago

I made this last night and it was so quick and easy and tasted delicious 🥰

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Nisha

8 months ago

really happy to read this

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Liam C

8 months ago

Hi Nisha! Thank you so much because you taught me how to cook rice perfectly, something I struggled with a lot and now my whole family cook rice perfectly as well

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Nisha

8 months ago

ME TOO for sooo long and so glad to share the pain and joy with you

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Christopher H

8 months ago

From this day forward I will only ever make my own pilau. Thankyou for the recipie Nisha and the new cooking term of "panic point"

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Nisha

8 months ago

This means the world

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Therese S

9 months ago

Swapped out the ghee for veg oil and kept it simple with just coriander to garnish but was a huge hit and will definitely be making regularly !

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Vicky Naylor

10 months ago

The second time I’ve made this rice this week - a big hit!

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Nisha

10 months ago

Brilliant Vicky

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Stuart C

10 months ago

Excellent. Fragrant and delicious.

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Nisha

10 months ago

great!

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