Broad bean pilau

Broad bean pilau

This broad bean dish will add a Middle Eastern twist to any summer occasion

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 30 mins

Cook time

Cook 15 mins

Plus soaking
Vegetarian

Vegetarian

Method

  1. Wash the rice in several changes of cold water until the water runs clear, then soak in warm water with a pinch of salt for 30 mins. Meanwhile, cook the broad beans in boiling unsalted water for just 2 mins. Drain the beans, then tip into ice-cold water and leave to cool. Remove the beans from their skins and set aside.
  2. Heat the butter in a saucepan, then sizzle the spring onions, pine nuts, allspice and half the dill for a few mins until pine nuts are toasted. Drain rice, then add to the pan and stir to coat in the butter. Cover the rice with about 1cm of water, then cover the pan and bring to a hard boil. Stir once, then reduce heat to a minimum, cover again and leave for 5 mins. Turn off the heat and leave rice undisturbed for 10 mins. Finally, stir beans through the rice, pile onto a serving platter, scraping any golden crispy bits from the pan, and scatter with the remaining dill.
Try

Eat them raw

Eating very young broad beans raw, drizzled with olive oil and served with small chunks of pecorino cheese.

Per serving

351 kcalories, protein 9g, carbohydrate 46g, fat 16 g, saturated fat 7g, fibre 5g, sugar 2g, salt 0.2 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2007.

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  • 11 March 2008

    Belkey rated and commented on this recipe

    2 stars

    Not as tasty as I was expecting, a little dry and bland and I have to admit that we got rather bored eating it.

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  • 24 June 2008

    raha rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Hi I�m from Iran this food is traditional foods of Iran that is very tasty but this recipe is different from our recipe. I share my native recipe for others. Please test it. I�m sure you love it. You can serve it with chicken or sheep meat that cooked as stew or kebob.

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  • 24 June 2008

    raha commented on this recipe

    4 cup basmati rice 1 cup podded and skinned broad beans 50.0g butter ½ tsp ground spice (Cinnamon 40%, cumin 40%, black pepper powder 20%) if you didn't like this you can ignore this 1 cup dill, fronds removed and finely chopped 1 big potato

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  • 24 June 2008

    raha commented on this recipe

    Wash the rice in several changes of cold water until the water runs clear, and then soak in warm water with a tsp. of salt for 30 min. Meanwhile, cook the broad beans in boiling water for just 10 min or until completely cooked but nut crushed. Drain the beans and set aside.

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  • 24 June 2008

    raha commented on this recipe

    For cooking the rice, boil 2 lit water in large pot. After this, add drained rice if you like you can add pinch of salt and 1 tbs. vegetable oil to avoiding adhesiveness of the rice together. Wait 10 to 12 min or until the rice beans not deformed. Drain it in strainer and add spices broad beans finely chopped dill or dry dill and mixed them.

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  • 24 June 2008

    raha commented on this recipe

    Heat the butter in a large pot, cover bottom of it with potato slices. Then add rice mixture. and cover the pot for 20 to 30 min on medium heat. Serve it with chicken or meat with tomato-onion souse. Use combination of sour yogurt and water and dried mint powder, salt, black pepper for dinking. You can use saffron powder and boiling water for decorating of rice (polo).

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 30 mins

Cook time

Cook 15 mins

Plus soaking
Vegetarian

Vegetarian

Foolproof rice – packed with flavour

Ingredients

  • 200g basmati rice
  • 300g podded broad beans
  • 50g butter
  • 4 spring onions , finely sliced
  • ½ tsp ground allspice
  • bunch of dill , fronds removed and roughly chopped
  • handful pine nuts
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Per serving

351 kcalories, protein 9g, carbohydrate 46g, fat 16 g, saturated fat 7g, fibre 5g, sugar 2g, salt 0.2 g

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