welcome friends welcome back to the kitchen today I'm going to make a rice
pilaf I have a roasted chicken thigh thing happening in the oven and I
thought a rice pilaf recipe would be really nice with it so I've got a
stovetop and oven proof pan here so into that I'm going to melt some butter and
once the butter is mostly melted I'm going to put in some diced onion red
pepper and celery I just want to cook these off until they're softened I don't
want to add any color to them so that shouldn't take very long at all
and once the veg has softened I'm gonna put in the spices which in this case are
cumin turmeric and cinnamon I just want to stir those in and right away you'll
smell them it'll be fantastic and the turmeric is going to give a really nice
yellow color to everything of course there's so many ways you could spice
this wrassle who knew would be fantastic in this so many different flavor
combinations next in is the rice and I'm gonna use basmati I really like basmati
rice and so I wanted to stir this in I want to coat all the grains with the oil
and spices and we just want to fry this it kind of a medium-high heat until it
starts to smell nutty it doesn't take long to toast the rice next thing are
two bay leaves yes bay leaves do something if they're
reasonably fresh they've been hanging out in the back of your cupboard for I
don't know four or five years or more if you can't remember when you bought the
bay leaves it's probably time to check them out because they won't have much
flavor left and then chicken stock
but the chicken stock in and I want to bring this up to a boil it shouldn't
take long to come to a boil but just give it a stir make sure everything's
mixed up and there's no rice kind of hanging out on the edge of the pan
because that won't get cooked next in are some currants and you could use any
dried fruit I like currants but you could use dates
you could use anything like that and I'm a big fan of frozen peas
so in goes some frozen peas I'm gonna put the lid on it and then I'm going to
stick it in the oven with the chicken now you could do this on the stovetop if
you wanted to I'm gonna do it in the oven because the ovens over the oven is
already on there's chicken cooking it can cook at the same time usually this
would cook at a lower temperature than the chicken but if you monitor it
carefully it'll be just fine and so into the oven it goes rice pilaf
in the oven is ready to go fractions okay so if you've been watching the
chicken video we also made rice pilaf to go with it and if people watching the
rice pilaf video we also made chicken to go with it also we're gonna do a joint
tasting both at the same time so that needs to be fluffed the chicken sauce is
done so I'm going to turn that off it'll stay warm in here for quite some time
whoa looks pretty good mm-hmm someone wins the bay leaf prizes cool yeah just
give it a stir and then there's some pine nuts there too that'll go on top
okay that's right forks and spoons pine nuts you don't
have to put them all on I wasn't sure how many oh okay
ready capers would be really good in that sauce - I have no idea cuz I know
mm-hmm but I imagine just with all the smells that are going sure capers would
probably get very well all right so capers would be really good in that
sauce I would I could even envision putting the capers in while you're
cooking the chicken so it's some rice sample here
let's try the rice first the little raisins are fun no their currents the
crunch oh yeah raisins but currants they're Kurt's but you know you could
put any dried fruit in you could chop up so I like the currants mm-hmm you
usually don't like fruity surprises how are you doing with that no it's fine
okay I like it I like and I even like the like the pine nuts I like to change
and texture at the pine nuts okay finish this so the chicken wait wait cut you
off a piece um you want to have that in your rice me yeah probably I'll try it a
little bit first cuz you know do a formal taste hmm I was really nice hmm
that sauce on the outsides really good isn't it mm-hmm yeah it goes with the
ricer goes with it where's the sauce - yep that's Austin I'll put some sauce in
with the rice well I'll go freeform and put my sauce in my rice with my chicken
and yeah taste it and then mix it all up because
you know Julie's free-forming a biryani here in the kitchen okay so the chicken
and the rice go really well together the sauce is fantastic there's a pretty good
easy dinner there wasn't both of them went in the oven at the same time or
about the same you put the oven you put the chicken in the oven first then you
prep the rice and you stick the rice in the oven and they come out at the same
time yeah I guess is what I should have said okay I'm still yeah up together
separate whatever brings you joy my friend this is good throw in some more
vegetables and I'm I'm a happy person thanks for stopping by so you can soon
you