Armenian pilaf with raisins and dried fruits sweet

8 servings
1 hour 30 min

Necessary ingredients

Raisins are a required component, because it has a symbolic meaning

Dried fruits can be varied, here everything depends on your desire - you can take dates, dried figs, cranberries, etc.

Almonds in nuts are mandatory, the rest of the nuts are taken again at will and used for decoration, you can and without them at all, it will still be very tasty

I added spices from myself, they were not used in the original recipe. But it seems to me that cinnamon, clove and badyan further reveal the aroma of dried fruits

Put water on fire and add 1 tea. l. salt. We take 3 times more water than rice. I took rice 2 mugs of 250 ml, so I take water 6 such mugs

When the water boils, fall asleep washed fig. Cook 10 minutes until half-ready

We put raisins, dried fruits, almonds, a piece of butter in a saucepan, add half a bunch of water and put it on a low heat to languish for 20-30 minutes. We stir periodically and if we need to top up a little more water so that dried fruits do not burn

After 10 minutes, the rice is cooked, as the Italians would say, to the state of al dente. We throw it back into a colander and rinse it with cold water - this is done so that the rice remains crumbly

Grease the bottom of the cauldron with butter and line the bottom of the pita bread so that the rice does not subsequently burn

The remaining butter must be melted in a microwave or in a water bath. The original recipe uses ghee

Remove the resulting white foam, as in the preparation of real melted butter

Pour melted oil over rice

We level

Cover with a lid wrapped in a clean towel. This is done so that the resulting condensate does not spoil the rice

We put the cauldron on the flame splitter on the weakest fire. We can withstand 1 an hour. Rice will heat up and reach readiness

When dried fruits are ready, turn off the fire and wait until rice is ready

And an hour later, we put the rice on a slide on a dish. In the photo you can see what it turned out to be crumbly - a drawing to the drawing

We lay out steamed dried fruits with raisins and almonds on top. We decorate with the remaining nuts. Our Easter pilaf is ready! Enjoy your meal!