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Armenians use a lot of '']'' (cracked wheat) in their pilaf dishes.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Oxford University Press| isbn = 978-0-19-280681-9| last = Davidson| first = Alan| title = The Oxford Companion to Food| accessdate = 2018-07-16| date = 2006| url = http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192806819.001.0001/acref-9780192806819}}</ref> ''Lapa'' is an Armenian word with several meanings one of which is a "watery boiled rice, thick rice soup, mush" and ''lepe'' which refers to various rice dishes differing by region.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Otto Harrassowitz Verlag| isbn = 978-3-447-03640-5| last = Dankoff| first = Robert| title = Armenian Loanwords in Turkish| date = 1995 |page=53}}</ref> ] describes Armenian pilaf as "dish resembling porridge".<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Mershon Company| last = Azhderian| first = Antranig| title = The Turk and the Land of Haig; Or, Turkey and Armenia: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque| date = 1898 |pages=171–172}}</ref> Armenians use a lot of '']'' (cracked wheat) in their pilaf dishes.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Oxford University Press| isbn = 978-0-19-280681-9| last = Davidson| first = Alan| title = The Oxford Companion to Food| accessdate = 2018-07-16| date = 2006| url = http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192806819.001.0001/acref-9780192806819}}</ref> ] describes Armenian pilaf as "dish resembling porridge".<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Mershon Company| last = Azhderian| first = Antranig| title = The Turk and the Land of Haig; Or, Turkey and Armenia: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque| date = 1898 |pages=171–172}}</ref>


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Pilaf
Kabuli palaw, a national dish of Afghanistan
Alternative namesPela, Pilav, Pallao, Pilau, Pulao, Pulaav, Palaw, Palavu, Plov, Palov, Polov, Polo, Polu, Kurysh, Fulao, Fulab, Fulav
CourseMain
Region or stateWest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Balkans, East Africa, Caribbean
Serving temperatureHot
Main ingredientsRice, spices, meat, vegetables, dried fruits

Pilaf is term used for rice dishes where the desired consistency of the grain is separated, individal grains, without clumping. The dish is partly of Middle Eastern origin and partly of South Asian origin. Most pilaf dishes found in various word cuisines include different combinations of spices, meat, seafood, vegetables, or dried fruits.

Pilaf spread to varied world cuisines during the Abbasid Caliphate at a time when foods diffused widely throughout a vast territory reaching from Spain to Afganistan. The Spanish paella pilaf evolved from the South Asian dish of pulao

Pilaf and similar dishes are common to Balkan, Middle Eastern, Eastern Europe, South Caucasian, Central and South Asian, East African, Latin American, and Caribbean cuisines. It is a staple food and a popular dish in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Israel, Crete, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russia, Kurdistan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Uganda, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Xinjiang, and Uzbekistan.

Etymology

The English spelling is influenced by the Modern Greek piláfi, which comes from the Turkish pilav, which in turn comes from Persian polow, Template:Lang-hi, from Sanskrit pulāka (meaning "a ball of rice"), which in turn, is probably of Dravidian origin. A Spanish dish, paella, traditionally a communal meal made from rice and fish, shellfish, rabbit or chicken, cooked in a large pan, has similarities in recipe and methodology, but derives from a Valencian word, out of the Old French word paelle for "pan" (Latin: patella).

History

The ancient Hindu text Mahabharata from the Indian subcontinent mentions rice and meat cooked together, and the word "pulao" or "pallao" is used to refer to the dish in ancient Sanskrit works such as the Yājñavalkya Smṛti. Alexander the Great was reportedly so impressed with Bactrian and Sogdian pilavs that he brought the recipes back to Macedonia.

Persian style pilav

However, the first known recipe for pilaf is by the tenth-century Persian scholar Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā), who in his books on medical sciences dedicated a whole section to preparing various dishes, including several types of pilaf. In doing so, he described advantages and disadvantages of every item used for preparing the dish. Accordingly, Persians consider Ibn Sina to be the "father" of modern pilaf. 13th century Arab texts describe the consistency of pilaf that the grains should be plump and somewhat firm to resemble peppercorns with no mushyness, and each gain should be separate with no clumping.

Another primary source for pilaf dishes comes from the 17th century Iranian philosopher Molla Sadra.

Plov prepared in Tashkent

Pilau became standard fare in the Middle East and Transcaucasia over the years with variations and innovations by the Persians, Arabs, Turks, and Armenians. It was introduced to Israel by Bukharan and Persian Jews.

During the period of the Soviet Union, the Central Asian versions of the dish spread throughout all Soviet republics, becoming a part of the common Soviet cuisine.

Controversial origins

Western scholars, such as Alan Davidson, attributing the origin of pilaf to West Asia, due to pilaf rice preparation and recipe given by the tenth-century Persian scholar Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā); he states that pilaf, despite being the word being of ancient Indian origin, is a West Asian method of cooking rice, in which every grain remains separate and that such technique was unknown in the Indian subcontinent before Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent. However, according to K. T. Achaya, elaborate textual references of rice being cooked in ancient India with separate elongated grains are made as early as 1st century CE.

Preparation

Some cooks prefer to use basmati because it is easier to prepare a pilaf where the grains stay "light, fluffy and separate with this type of rice. However, other types of long-grain rice are also used. The rice is rinsed thoroughly before use to remove the starch. Pilaf can be cooked in water or stock. Common additions include fried onions and fragrant spices like cardamom, bay leaves and cinnamon. On special occasions saffron may be used to give the rice a yellow color. Pilaf is often made by adding the rice to hot fat and stirring briefly before adding the cooking liquid. The fat used varies from recipe to recipe. Cooking methods vary with respect to details like pre-soaking the rice and steaming after boiling.

Local varieties

There are thousands of variations of pilaf made with rice or other grains like bulgur. In Central Asia there are plov, pilau on the Indian subcontinent, and variations from Turkmenistan and Turkey. Some include different combinations of meats, fruits or vegetables, while others are simple and served plain. In the present day , Central Asaian, Indian, Turkish cuisine, Iranian and Carribean cuisine are considered the five major schools of pilaf.

Afghanistan

In Afghan cuisine, Kabuli palaw or qabili palaw (Dari : قابلی پلو ) is made by cooking basmati with mutton, lamb, beef or chicken, and oil. Kabuli Palaw is cooked in large shallow and thick dishes. Fried sliced carrots and raisins are added. Chopped nuts like pistachios, walnuts, or almonds may be added as well. The meat is covered by the rice or buried in the middle of the dish. The Kabuli Palaw rice with carrots and raisins is very popular in Saudi Arabia, where it is known as roz Bukhari (Arabic: رز بخاري), meaning Bukharan rice.

Armenia

Armenians use a lot of bulgur (cracked wheat) in their pilaf dishes. Antranig Azhderian describes Armenian pilaf as "dish resembling porridge".

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani cuisine includes more than 40 different plov recipes. One of the most reputed dishes is plov from saffron-covered rice, served with various herbs and greens, a combination distinctive from Uzbek plovs. Traditional Azerbaijani plov consists of three distinct components, served simultaneously but on separate platters: rice (warm, never hot), gara (fried meat, dried fruits, eggs, or fish prepared as an accompaniment to rice), and aromatic herbs. Rice is not mixed with the other components even when eating plov.

Brazil

A significantly modified version of the recipe, often seen as influenced by what is called arroz pilau there, is known in Brazil as arroz de frango desfiado or incorrectly risoto de frango (Portuguese: [aˈʁoʒ dʒi ˈfɾɐ̃gu dʒisfiˈadu], "shredded chicken rice", [ʁiˈzotu], "chicken risotto"). Rice lightly fried (and optionally seasoned), salted and cooked until soft (but neither soupy nor sticky) in either water or chicken stock is added to chicken stock, onions and sometimes cubed bell peppers (cooked in the stock), shredded chicken breast, green peas, tomato sauce, shoyu, and optionally vegetables (e.g. canned sweet corn, cooked carrot cubes, courgette cubes, broccolini flowers, chopped broccoli or broccolini stalks/leaves fried in garlic seasoning) and/or herbs (e.g. mint, like in canja) to form a distantly risotto-like dish – but it is generally fluffy (depending on the texture of the rice being added), as generally, once all ingredients are mixed, it is not left to cook longer than 5 minutes. In the case shredded chicken breast is not added, with the rice being instead served alongside chicken and sauce suprême, it is known as arroz suprême de frango (Portuguese: [ɐˈʁo s(ː)uˈpɾẽm(i) dʒi ˈfɾɐ̃gu], "chicken supreme rice").

Caribbean

See also: Carribean cuisine
Carribean style pelau with saltfish and callaloo

In the Eastern Caribbean and other Caribbean territories there are variations of pelau which include a wide range of ingredients such as pigeon peas, green peas, string beans, corn, carrots, pumpkin, and meat such as beef or chicken, or cured pig tail. The seasoned meat is usually cooked in a stew, with the rice and other vegetables added afterwards. Coconut milk and spices are also key additions in some islands.

Trinidad is recognized for its pelau, a layered rice with meats and vegetables. It is a mix of traditional African cuisine and "New World" ingredients like ketchup. The process of browning the meat (usually chicken, but also stew beef or lamb) in sugar is an African technique.

In Tobago pelau is commonly made with crab.

Central Asia

Public plov cooking in Tashkent.

Central Asian, e.g. Tajik and Uzbek plov (Template:Lang-tg, Template:Lang-uz) or osh differs from other preparations in that rice is not steamed, but instead simmered in a rich stew of meat and vegetables called zirvak, until all the liquid is absorbed into the rice. A limited degree of steaming is commonly achieved by covering the pot. It is usually cooked in a kazan (or deghi) over an open fire. The cooking tradition includes many regional and occasional variations. Commonly, it is prepared with lamb, browned in lamb fat or oil, and then stewed with fried onions, garlic and carrots. Chicken plov is rare but found in traditional recipes originating in Bukhara. Plov is usually spiced with whole black cumin, coriander, barberries, red pepper, marigold, and pepper. Heads of garlic and garbanzo beans are buried into the rice during cooking. Sweet variations with dried apricots, cranberries and raisins are prepared on special occasions.

Although often prepared at home for family and guests by the head of household or the housewife, plov is made on special occasions by the oshpaz (osh master chef), who cooks the national dish over an open flame, sometimes serving up to 1,000 people from a single cauldron on holidays or occasions such as weddings. Oshi nahor, or "morning plov", is served in the early morning (between 6 and 9 am) to large gatherings of guests, typically as part of an ongoing wedding celebration.

The Uzbek-style plov cooking recipes are spread nowadays throughout all post-Soviet countries and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.

Greece

In the Greek cuisine, piláfi (πιλάφι) is the fluffy and soft, but neither soupy nor sticky, rice that has been boiled in a meat stock or bouillon broth. In Northern Greece, it is considered poor form to prepare piláfi on a stovetop; the pot is properly placed in the oven. Gamopílafo ("wedding pilaf") is the prized pilaf served traditionally at weddings and major celebrations in Crete: rice is boiled in lamb or goat broth, then finished with lemon juice. Gamopílafo though it bears the name is not a pilaf but rather a kind of risotto, with creamy and not fluffy texture.

India

Pulao Mangsho, with condiments and yogurt, West Bengal, India.

The argument for an Indian origin of pilaf traces the word back to the Sanskrit pulaka, which means a "shriveled or blighted or empty or bad grain" in Sanskrit, however the verb it derives from meaning "to stand on end" and could be construed as a reference to a dish where the preparation of rice would result in the separate, non-sticky grains that are characteristic of pilaf. Mahabharata mentions rice and meat cooked together, and the word pulāka is used to refer to the dish in Sanskrit works such as the Yājñavalkya Smṛti.

Pulao is usually associated with Moghul cuisine. The dish consists of rice and a mixture of either lentils or vegetables, mainly including peas, potatoes, french beans, carrots or meat, mainly chicken, fish, lamb, pork or prawn. There are very elaborate pulaos with Persianized names like hazar pasand ("a thousand delights"). It is usually served on special occasions and weddings, though it is not uncommon to eat it for a regular lunch or dinner meal. It is considered very high in food energy and fat. A pulao is often complemented with either spiced yogurt or raita.

Iran

Lubia polo, rice with green beans in Iran.

Persian culinary terms referring to rice preparation are numerous and have found their way into the neighbouring languages: polo (rice cooked in broth while the grains remain separate, straining the half cooked rice before adding the broth and then "brewing"), chelo (white rice with separate grains), kateh (sticky rice) and tajine (slow cooked rice, vegetables, and meat cooked in a specially designed dish also called a tajine). There are also varieties of different rice dishes with vegetables and herbs which are very popular among Iranians.

There are four primary methods of cooking rice in Iran:

  • Chelo: rice that is carefully prepared through soaking and parboiling, at which point the water is drained and the rice is steamed. This method results in an exceptionally fluffy rice with the grains separated and not sticky; it also results in a golden rice crust at the bottom of the pot called tahdig (literally "bottom of the pot").
  • Polo: rice that is cooked exactly the same as chelo, with the exception that after draining the rice, other ingredients are layered with the rice, and they are then steamed together.
  • Kateh: rice that is boiled until the water is absorbed. This is the traditional dish of Northern Iran.
  • Damy: cooked almost the same as kateh, except that the heat is reduced just before boiling and a towel is placed between the lid and the pot to prevent steam from escaping. Damy literally means "simmered".

Pakistan

Camel meat pulao, Pakistan.

In Pakistan, Pulao (پلاؤ) is a popular dish cooked with Basmati rice and meat (chicken or mutton or beef). Pulao is a rice dish, cooked in seasoned broth with rice, meat and spices. A pulao is often complimented with raita. The rice is made in mutton or beef or chicken stock and an array of spices including: coriander seeds, cumin, cardamom, cloves and others. Mutton and beef have, with time, been replaced with chicken due to higher prices of mutton. The Sindhi pulao (Template:Lang-sd) in the province of Sindh, prepared with mutton or beef or chicken. It is prepared by Sindhi people of Pakistan in their marriage ceremonies, condolence meetings, and other occasions.

Palestine and Syria

Traditional Levantine cooking includes a variety of Pilaf known as "Maqlubeh", known across the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean. The rice pilaf which is traditionally cooked with meats, eggplants, tomatoes, potatoes, and cauliflower also has a fish variety known as "Sayyadiyeh", or the Fishermen's Dish.

Turkey

Typical Turkish pilav. Rice with arpa şehriye (orzo).

Turkish cuisine contains many different pilaf types and is the inspiration behind most of the variations in Armenia, Balkans, Greece, and Arab countries due to their past under Ottoman Empire rule. Some of these variations are pirinc (rice) pilaf, bulgur pilaf, and arpa şehriye (orzo) pilaf. Using mainly these three types, Turkish people make many dishes such as perdeli pilav, and etli pilav (rice cooked with cubed beef). Unlike Chinese rice, if Turkish rice is sticky, it is considered unsuccessful. To make the best rice according to Turkish people, one must rinse the rice, cook in butter, then add the water and let it sit until it soaks all the water. This results in a pilaf that is not sticky and every single rice grain falls off of the spoon separately.

See also

References

  1. Davidson 2014, p. 624. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFDavidson2014 (help)
  2. ^ Roger 2000, p. 1144.
  3. ^ (subcription required) pilau (n), Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edition, online, 2006 {{citation}}: Check |url= value (help) Quote: " A dish, partly of Middle Eastern, partly and ultimately of South Asian origin, consisting of rice (or, in certain areas, wheat) cooked in stock with spices, usually mixed with meat and various other ingredients.
  4. ^ Roger 2000, p. 1143, 1151.
  5. Gil Marks. Encyclopedia of Jewish Food. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. ISBN 9780544186316
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  9. Russell Zanca. Life in a Muslim Uzbek Village: Cotton Farming After Communism CSCA. Cengage Learning, 2010, p. 92–96. ISBN 9780495092810
  10. Harper, Douglas. "Pilaf". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
  11. Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edition, 2006 s.v. 'pilau'
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  17. ^ Davidson, Alan (2014), Jaine, Tom (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Food, Oxford University Press, pp. 624–625, ISBN 978-0-19-967733-7 Quote: "A Middle-Eastern method of cooking rice so that every grain remains separate"
  18. Achaya, K.T. (1994). Indian Food Tradition A Historical Companion. Oxford University Press. pp. 45 Food was rich and varied in south India in the first few centuries ad. As observed above, there were at least five varieties of rice. 183 Rice was of course mostly eaten boiled, but sometimes fried aromatics were sprinkled on it. Dressing with tamarind gave puli-kari (puli-sadam), and further with sesame seeds and sugar yielded chitranna Rice could be cooked with a pulse (the present pongal), or cooked with ‘fatted meat’, or ‘well-cooked with ghee’. There is a poetic description of ‘rice which looked like jasmine buds, the grains elongated like fingers, and separate from one another’. ISBN 0195628454.
  19. Achaya, K. T. Indian Food Tradition A Historical Companion. Oxford University Press. pp. 97 The third marriage feast comes from Naishadha Charita (dated to the 12th century AD), and is written by a poet who was clearly also a gourmet. There was boiled rice served hot, unbroken, fragrant and well-cooked, with each grain separate.. ISBN 0195644166.
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Notes

  1. Davidson: "A Middle-Eastern method of cooking rice so that every grain remains separate. ...However, there is no evidence that rice was cooked by this technique in India before the Muslim invasions, and Indians themselves associate pilaf-making with Muslim cities such as Hyderabad, Lucknow, and Delhi. .... The first descriptions of the pilaf technique appear in the 13th-century Arabic books Kitab al-Tabikh and Kitab al-Witsla ila al Habib, written in Baghdad and Syria, respectively. They show the technique in its entirety, including the cloth beneath the lid, and describe still-current flavourings such as meat, pulses, and fruit."
  2. Roger: "As noted, Iranians have a unique method of preparing rice. This method is designed to leave the grains separate and tasty, making the rice fluffy and very flavorful. After soaking, parboiling, and draining, the rice is poured into a dish smeared with melted butter. The lid is then sealed tightly with a cloth and a paste of flour and water. The last stage is to steam it on low heat for about half an hour, after which the rice is removed and fluffed."
  3. Roger: " (p. 1143) Under the Abbassids, for example (ninth to twelfth century), during the Golden Age of Islam, there was one single empire from Afghanistan to Spain and the North of Arabia. The size of the empire allowed many foods to spread throughout the Middle East. From India, rice went to Syria, Iraq, and Iran, and eventually, it became known and cultivated all the way to Spain. .... Many dishes of that period are still prepared today with ingredients available to the common people. Some of these are vinegar preserves, roasted meat, and cooked livers, which could be bought in the streets, eaten in the shops, or taken home. Such dishes considerably influenced medieval European and Indian cookery; for example, paella, which evolved from pulao, and pilaf and meat patties that started out as samosa or sambusak." Roger: "(p. 1151) Islam gave to Indian cookery its masterpiece dishes from the Middle East. These include pilau (from Iranian pollo and Turkish pilaf), samossa (Turkish sambussak), shir kurma (dates and milk), kebabs, sherbet, stuffed vegetables, oven bread, and confections (halvah). Such dishes became so well acclimated in India that vegetarian versions of them were elaborated."

Bibliography

External links

  • The dictionary definition of pilaf at Wiktionary
  • Pulao at the Wikibooks Cookbook subproject
  • Rice Pilaf at the Wikibooks Cookbook subproject
  • Kashmiri Pulao at the Wikibooks Cookbook subproject
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