hi everyone welcome to Lakaz Mwa today the beautiful garden setting is having pilau
Mauritian pilau right so let's go see the ingredients majority of pilau is going to be rice
this is the style of the dish cooked in a stock we've got stock as well that's cheating a little
chillies garlic ginger cloves cardamom cinnamon bay leaf curry leaves cumin and although it
says paprika turmeric chinese sausage mauritian sausage mauritian sausage and some chicken thighs
which we must cut and then onions oh two types fancy and then we've got some eggs that we've
already boiled those are for decoration later i think that's about it let's get started
love chicken thighs and they're so great these ones they come boneless they do for some reason
didn't even notice poor little puppy doesn't get any bones pilau it sounds so polynesian
you know like from from you might recognize it as pilaf as well that's what the americans call it
pilaf yeah pilaf and yeah all over the world it's basically rice cooked in a stock so
you work out where you've heard of rice cooked in the stock before Bryan but i know the persian
stuff comes like that we made that iranian food yes and think spain paella yes oh so this is like
paella oh i suppose paella is a yeah exactly okay awesome all right now this is kind of weird but
this is a quite a lazy dish so we're kind of going to put this chicken we just cut
and all those beautiful things you don't fry them first no no because we're going to fry them with
the chicken so we delicious going through this i know it just sits with that well yeah we're
going to mix it up we're going to still add a bit of our uh petit anis cumin let's pop a good
teaspoon of that and paprika no i'm reading it paprika turmeric
like over a teaspoon yeah depending on how yellowy you want your rice to come
out because everything everything's going to be cooked together salt little bit of salt
and then some sugar and i'm actually going to put two teaspoons of sugar
and the process of browning meats with sugar comes from the african influence because pilau is
a really popular dish in places like kenya and tanzania okay wow so as interesting as that looks
it actually does look quite nice i know it sounds weird it's all uncooked and stuff but
best of with the chillies whole chilies yeah keep it chunky i mean you can grind all this
if you want but this is like the rustic version yes oh it smells great and yes i'm even using
my teaspoon so that i don't have to wash another thing lazy pot this genuinely never happens to us
it always does it was sitting there by the avo pip you've got to put the coriander stems
in so i'm going to just put the stems in and then we'll save the leaves for
for garnishing later trusty teaspoon more gratuitous stirrings
these are little Mauritian sausages without color they're normally red these ones are not
red as you can see it's a slightly sweet chinese sausage but you you can use any sausage you want
you can actually not even have sausage if you want you could put some beef or bacon or
rabbit or you forgot to put the oil in Riki they're apparently oily but we'll see these
guys have had a little bit of a chance and there is no fat coming out of these so this must be a
low-fat version or something lean sausages so i'll give them a little bit of fat because sausages all
yes isn't that right
oh those don't look good mm-hmm do you have to fully cook them
no no we just need to get a bit of color on them because they're going to be cooked again later
wow job for me tong master oh nice they look so good look at them banging they're like bangers
i've never actually eaten these before i'm going to make a point of actually eating one
yeah i'm sure they cooked enough that you could try a bit we'll see
here we go thanks Bryan
bit of butter and got our onions loads of onions
this is two onions but again this is a loosey-goosey type recipe
looks alright oh it's got spices inside yeah it's actually cooked nicely
that whole piece will be for you oh awesome i want to try it while we're
caramelizing our onions i'm just going to chop these kind of loosely oh is it for me
oh i really like that oh they're good that's a good sausage you should try some i will
it's actually really nice not sweet
oh starting to caramelize looking lovely those are nearly ready
over to the eggs i know they're for decoration what are we doing with them now
we're going to give them some flavor and a little bit of color
by popping them into the onion you you're frying boiled eggs
okay
wait oh the recipe calls for it i saw someone do it okay literally they took the onion out
but uh you know lazy one pot looks like we're making an egg curry yes
oh i've got a little bit of color yeah i thought they might collect the sausages their eggs
those look quite nice actually i'm gonna pick up that nice butter and onion
those look great i really do yeah anyway stick around we moving on to the next part
so remember our one pot chicken marinated whole
all of it together
oh yes wow
there's so much smell coming out of that pot now i'm a bit nervous about those three chillies
this is coming together beautifully inspirations from everywhere in the world it's kind of
it's an international dish it is really international eggs getting a new home yeah
because it's sausage time they gotta join the party oh look at them they just fit right in
oh man and i suppose you could borrow from the spanish and add prawns or
anything you have really lamb beef well just like anything any probably also just eggs if you
just wanted eggs sure or just vegetables this is quite often just a straight up vegetarian
dish okay just the onions and i think i've seen carrots and raisins
oh gosh i think oh that looks amazing it really does wow we just eat it on bread now
and you could do this in a big pot what's that over here i've got two cups of rice
basmati rice that i've washed not cooked at all no no just washed and i'm gonna throw that into this
whole mix from the persian influence just stir it up oh we're going to toss it with all that
flavor and remember this rice is raw you can't eat this just yet but it looks good enough already
it does Riki
and then because i want this quite nice and rich
i'm going to add a little bit more butter of course you can always add
more butter because iranian rice you put quite a bit of butter stir it in
right so two cups of rice so i need four cups of liquid
but i'm using my cheat stock but i don't know how big the cup this is so that's one
two
three count with me
four oh look at the color though here oh it has gone yellow turmeric
okay we're going to give this a stir
i hope this tastes as good as it looks oh me too but you can't taste it now because the rice is raw
yeah and then we're going to leave that for we'll get back to you how long it took
covered on with the lid this one has a lid yeah oh okay so it's been about 10 minutes and the rice is
going to look quite good so i'm actually going to leave it uncovered so that i can keep an eye on it
so while it's cooking make a little side salsa
just a simple onion and tomato
salsa make it look pretty
then
some onion
it's been another 10 minutes and
i've decided to put the lid back on so 20 minutes total cooking time now
10 covered 10 uncovered and now we're going back to covered for another 10. for a bit of steaming
look at that oh and the smell immediately hits your nose
oh it looks so good now this is my serving bowl
um pour it in Riki it might fit i can't pour it too sticky
oh i must say
it really looks rich in there
oh look at that look at that that butter that we started with oh that is so perfect
it's like a paella
do you think the name paella comes from pilau probably i was just wondering you know the
italians don't have is their risotto sort of like a pilau but fancy i suppose so i suppose it is a
it is a type of pilau they cook rice in a stock so yeah yeah they just stir these a lot more
okay so not i suppose they would argue that this is fancier because you have to stir it all
the time and make it creamy but man this does not look half bad this looks all the way good
don't you just want to eat that yes i do well these are the eggs
oh look at them you don't cut them into quarters you can't even halves yeah i think so okay what
do you guys think i think halves let us know in the comments we'll rush back and change it
yeah those look pretty it does oh man i feel a thumbnail coming on
yeah man it looks nice i mean rustic rustic but nice for sure rustic is good yeah wholesome
let's not forget the coriander with the jet engine taking off behind us
okay we'll just cut it and then we'll big chunks of nice coriander
oh beautiful oh man they're starting to look so good yeah it looks really good i think one
of the glue companies would come and study coriander's effect to stick to your hands
beyond anything else it's quite remarkable oh wow that looks so good oh i love that i
am so happy with that oh man that is so so good one final little touch black pepper
heavy oh man that is a massive amount
oh look can you done a plate for me wow you know chicken pilau
chicken pilau mauritian style with sausage would start raining you save some Riki
make sure i get lots of everything oh you well you will you are
oh man
and of course because we're in mauritius a little lime definitely cut some of that butter
that's why you put so much butter to put lime on of course why not
wow
oh man that is great that that is a thing of beauty and that didn't make a dent
it really didn't
give it a go let gonna go for some chicken and of course loads of rice it's all about the rice
it's so fragrant mmm oh you forget the cloves and cardamoms
that's really yummy oh awesome really good have some sausage and a bit of salsa
i think she said it works brilliantly
the whole lot works brilliantly together oh we have the acidity gotta have the tomato
give it go Bryan give it a go oh man i just want to try the sausage
and and the chicken and the rice well i'm just going to dig in and see what comes oh sausage
chase with some tomato trust me it's really good oh and the onion yeah onion
it's like you don't need a gravy or anything with this because that rice is so so tasty you
know i love sauces and things you don't actually need it i'm just going for straight rice here
oh oh oh wow best rice ever it's just rice and it's so flavorful and you can get the butter
and oh man pilau peel out oh i should be pilau all right should be pull out egg sausage pilau
rice sorry excuse fingers where's my egg it's wonderful i think you could
totally eat it with your fingers i think it should be eaten with your fingers probably
i think you probably assume yeah yeah because it does it does squish really well
oh maybe i should try that give it a go with the chili you're going to try some of the chili
okay so all right i got my egg i'm gonna put my chili on my egg i want to get bitter
chicken bit of sausage together a bit of my and like that and then you just
shovel it in i think that's how pilau is meant to be
you really get the full effect when your mouth is full yes i agree that's a really great dish
if you've never tried this cooking stock with rice with stock get on it so super simple
and delicious it really is delicious and if you're a bachelor or something and you hot so anyway if
you're a bachelor or having a girlfriend come over wouldn't this look beautiful to serve to her and
you guys saw how easy it was so she would be like so impressed date food but don't forget the salads
yeah much better oh wow Mauritian pilau
hey it rhymes well anyway everyone thanks for watching see you again next time