Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, jeweled rice pilaf. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Jeweled Rice Pilaf is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Jeweled Rice Pilaf is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have jeweled rice pilaf using 17 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Jeweled Rice Pilaf:

1. Get 4 tbsp olive oil
2. Prepare 2 tbsp unsalted butter
3. Prepare 1 medium onion - finely chopped
4. Prepare 500 g basmati rice - washed,soaked and drained
5. Prepare 1/4 tsp ground cardamom
6. Get 50 g lentils - washed,soaked and drained
7. Prepare 1/4 tsp ground cumin
8. Make ready 1 medium carrot - julienned
9. Prepare 1 pinch salt
10. Make ready 1/4 tsp ground turmeric
11. Take 600 ml water - to cook rice
12. Prepare 1/4 tsp saffron threads - soaked in a little hot water
13. Get 50 g dates - pitted and chopped
14. Take 50 g unsalted pistachios - toasted
15. Take 50 g slivered almonds - toasted
16. Prepare 50 g raisins
17. Get 50 g dried cranberries

Instructions to make Jeweled Rice Pilaf:

1. Heat oil and butter in a rice pot then add the onions and sauté it until fragrant and translucent. Stir in the rice and lentils, followed by the carrot, cardamom, cumin, turmeric and salt. Add sufficient water to cover the rice and leave to cook.
2. When rice is halfway done, pour the saffron with the water into the rice cooker and be mindful not to stir. Once rice is cooked, stir in half the dates, nuts, raisins and berries, and scatter the rest over the rice when serving.

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