Crumbly pilaf in a slow cooker

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make crumbly pilaf in a slow cooker? Prepare your food. Any meat is suitable - beef, chicken, lamb, I have pork. It’s better to take long-grain rice - it will remain intact, and the pilaf will turn out crumbly. But just don’t use steamed rice - this kind of rice will remain hard. Choose spices and seasonings to your taste, but preferably they contain cumin. You will learn all the subtleties of choosing rice by reading an article on this topic. Link at the end of the recipe.

2. STEP 2

   

   Wash the meat and dry it well. Cut it into small pieces.

3. STEP 3

   

   Peel the onion and cut into thin feathers.

4. STEP 4

   

   Peeled carrots - into strips.

5. STEP 5

   

   Set your multicooker to a mode suitable for frying. It may be called differently on different models. Some people call it “Frying”, but my multicooker fries in the “Baking” mode. Set the time to 40 minutes. Preheat the appliance, pour vegetable oil for frying into the bowl. Lay out the chopped meat. Fry it, stirring, with the lid open until the color changes.

6. STEP 6

   

   When the meat turns grey, add the onion. Stir. Fry the meat and onions for about 5 minutes. Next, place the carrots in the bowl. Fry everything together for another 5 minutes. Then salt and pepper the meat. Cover the multicooker with the lid (without clicking) and cook the meat until the end of the program.

7. STEP 7

   

   Rinse the rice well in several waters until transparent. Sprinkle it on top of the meat and smooth it out. Do not mix rice with meat - pilaf is prepared this way, in layers. Salt the rice on top and add seasonings. I have a set of spices for pilaf, I also added a little turmeric for color and barberry.

8. STEP 8

   

   Peel the garlic head, wash it and stick it into the rice on top. Pour water into the bowl so that it is 1.5 cm higher than the rice. It is better to use hot water so that you do not waste extra time heating it when cooking in a multicooker.

9. STEP 9

   

   Close the lid and set the program suitable for pilaf. I call it “Pilaf”; there are multicookers with the “Grains” or “Rice” programs. If you need to specify the time, then set it to 45 minutes. Prepare pilaf before the end of the program. All the water should be absorbed into the rice. The times and modes may differ for you; be guided by the operating features of your equipment. Read more about the operation of different multicookers in the article at the end of this recipe.

10. STEP 10

    

    Remove the garlic and just now mix the rice with the meat. Cover the slow cooker again and let the pilaf stand for 10 minutes. Then serve the crumbly pilaf with pork to the table.

11. STEP 11

    

    Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

Alyona

30.09.2023

4.6

My “cartoon” has a “Pilaf” mode, but I have never used it. For us, pilaf is a cauldron, albeit sometimes on a stove, but in a cauldron. It so happened that we were sick, we needed to cook something light and quick so as not to have to stand at the stove. Khrumka to the rescue! Well there were two chicken breasts in the refrigerator. This is where the “Pilaf” mode comes in handy. I did everything exactly according to the recipe. The only thing is that I poured less water, my intuition told me so, and I didn’t add turmeric and curry separately, I took the ready-made mixture “For pilaf” and cumin. How delicious it turned out! Rice after grain, the pilaf is crumbly, aromatic, the meat melts on the lips, the onion has dissolved, the carrot is soft, but retains its shape. The cooking time for pilaf in a slow cooker is several times less than if you cook it in a cauldron, and this is a nice bonus: you relax, and the smart “toon” works. Many thanks to the author of the recipe for crumbly pilaf in a slow cooker, cook with pleasure!

Alina

30.09.2023

5

I really wanted to cook pilaf, but, unfortunately, we don’t have a cauldron yet. Here the multicooker, which had been standing in the box for a long time and idle, came to the rescue. My family doesn't eat pork, so I used chicken thigh fillet. I cut the meat into small pieces. I don’t have a “frying” mode, so I cooked on the “cooking” mode. I poured vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl and fried the meat for a couple of minutes. I peeled the vegetables, chopped them and added them to the meat. I fried the meat and vegetables for a couple more minutes. Then I washed the rice in several waters until transparent and poured it into the slow cooker. Added water in a 2:1 ratio (2 cups of water to 1 cup of rice). Salted, added spices and black pepper. I washed the head of garlic and stuck it into the rice. I closed the lid of the multicooker and set the “pilaf” mode. After 40 minutes the pilaf was ready. I removed the garlic and mixed the rice with the meat. The meat turned out tender and the rice was crumbly. Pilaf in a slow cooker is prepared quite quickly and not difficult. Thanks for the recipe!

Khochka

30.09.2023

4.7

Wow! Thanks for this recipe! I will treat my own! And you can try and do it my way

Orxidea84

30.09.2023

4.9

Pilaf in a slow cooker with pork turned out delicious. I will cook according to your recipe. Thank you

Prinada

30.09.2023

4.6

The crumbly pilaf in the slow cooker turned out very tasty! I cooked this dish for the first time today, thanks to this simple recipe it worked!

Lwsja

30.09.2023

5

Crumbly pilaf in a slow cooker is nourishing and very tasty!! The pilaf turns out excellent, not dry. The meat is very tender and pleasant to the taste. Thank you very much for the recipe!