Steps to Prepare Homemade Turkey Pilaf

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, turkey pilaf. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Turkey Pilaf is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Turkey Pilaf is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

Turkish rice pilaf (pilav) is most traditional and well known side dish in Turkish Cuisine. In Turkey, there is a saying; if she cooks good pilaf, then she can cook any dish. Pilaf is our number one side dish without a doubt. You can even see pilaf cars on the streets of Istanbul.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook turkey pilaf using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Turkey Pilaf:

1. Take 500 g cooked turkey, diced
2. Make ready 3 onions, chopped
3. Take 3 cloves garlic, chopped
4. Make ready 1 leek, sliced (optional)
5. Prepare 250 g button mushrooms, sliced
6. Get 2 peppers, green, red or mixed,deseeded and sliced
7. Take 2 sticks, celery, sliced
8. Get 250 g unsmoked bacon, diced
9. Make ready 400 g long-grain rice
10. Take Large knob butter
11. Get 1 litre turkey or chicken stock
12. Get 375 ml dry white wine
13. Prepare Ground black pepper
14. Take Salt
15. Prepare 1-2 tomatoes, cut into wedges
16. Prepare Small bunch coriander, chopped leaves only
17. Make ready 1 tsp sumac

Bulgur pilaf, called "bulgur pilavi" in Turkish, is one of the many great nutritious and healthy pilaf varieties that have long been common Turkish favorites. This wonderful dish is made mainly with. This is a good way to use up leftover turkey. It is moist and tasty and very easy to make.

Instructions to make Turkey Pilaf:

1. Pre-heat oven to Gas Mark 3 or electric equivalent. My Neff Circotherm setting is 150C.
2. Melt the butter in casserole and gently fry the onions, without stirring unless sticking, for 3 minutes.
3. Add the garlic and stir and continue gently frying until both onions and garlic are tender, say another 2 minutes.
4. Add the celery (and optional leek if wished), stir and fry for one further minute.
5. Add the bacon, stir and continue gently frying for another 3 minutes.
6. Add the turkey, peppers, mushrooms, rice, sumac and seasoning and stir thoroughly.
7. Pour in the wine and stock and bring it all to the boil, occasionally stirring gently.
8. Cover and transfer to the pre-heated oven and cook until the liquids are absorbed and the rice is sufficiently (but not over-!) cooked. This should take 35-40 minutes.
9. It’s worth checking after about 25 minutes to ensure that the dish doesn’t “run dry” before the rice is cooked. This very rarely happens but a splash or two of water can be added if necessary. The aim is to have a moist but definitely not “wet” end-product: I.e., nice, tender and fluffy cooked rice.
10. Either serve directly from the casserole or turn on to a warmed serving dish. Whichever you choose, garnish with tomato wedges, then sprinkle on the chopped coriander leaves and serve on hot plates.

This is a good way to use up leftover turkey. It is moist and tasty and very easy to make. Fethiye, Turkish Food, Slow Travel Turkey. Domatesli Bulgur Pilavı - Easy Bulgur Pilaf Recipe With Tomatoes. There are lots of little additions you can make to you bulgur pilaf recipe.

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