Cooking pilaf is a whole art! Correctly choose a variety of rice, calculate how much to add liquid, water, and about juice is a separate issue.
The only pilaf includes three types of cooking - frying, stewing and steaming.
They say that the Persians came up with pilaf, others say that they were Arabs. Who knows?
Small-An its heyday was during the Silk Road. Merchants and warriors, they lived off this path, they grew rich quickly.
Even the language of Small-An, called Esperanto of the Silk Road, it contained words from Arabic, Persian, Turkic, a little Chinese.
Who invented pilaf? Someone who really liked to cook! Previously, pilaf was a cure for anemia, increased immunity, gave strength to soldiers and farmers. It was an expensive dish that was eaten in cities once every six months. And in the villages, it was cooked once a year, or even once every three years.
Since the products needed were perfect, and they were also not cheap.
Selected fresh mutton meat, internal fat, Kurdish fat, vegetable oil squeezed from sesame seeds. Selected pink rice. Which appeared from the 8th century AD. Then for 1 kg of rice, they gave 1 gold coin. And for it, you could buy 20 fat rams. And for a good pilaf, for the whole family, a minimum of 10 kg of this rice was needed. You could use a cheaper one, another, but from him, there was no such healing effect!
Even in the early 90s of the 20th century, for 1 kg of pink rice, you had to pay 35 US dollars.
And in the Middle Ages, the price, in general, was probably cosmic. This is due to the fact that rice grew in only one valley, which was located in the extreme eastern lands of the kingdom of Tsao.
During the Middle Ages, there were many wars, dams were destroyed, irrigation facilities almost all died, where life used to boil, now there was a desert. Only the bones of people, the brown bones of animals, the remains of ceramics and the broken walls of palaces and walls were whitewashed.
Only in small protected by thick walls and mountains, were able to save the planting of pink rice. Therefore, the price of it rose even higher, 1 kg of rice costs like 50 fat rams or a full suite of steel for a warrior.
But the mountaineer had a lot of rice, he was a merchant, he was a little robber. The highlander knew the secret, mountain passages that went around customs posts. Therefore, merchants often used his services and paid him goods. Since the merchants needed money to buy goods, the highlander did not need them at all.
He was a little more and a forger. These are the mountains. He knew the mines where silver and gold were mined. He himself smelted ore, received silver and gold. His coins contained noble metal more than official coins of the kingdom of Tsao!
The king knew about these tricks, but was silent since he needed gold and silver! Once a year, the king's confidant came to him. He took to the capital of Tsao, five caravans of 55 camels, which brought silver and gold to his treasury.
But it was a mystery! No one knew about it, but whoever knew didn't live anymore!
In addition to rice, spices were needed, barberry which grew near the lakes where tigers and lions were found. Cumin that grew in the mountains on the steep cliffs. Saffron, which could only be purchased from the Persians and Kashgar. They asked 100 large gold coins for a whisper of saffron! It was unheard of money! Five elite warriors could be bought on them so that they would guard the caravans for two years.
Peas and raisins to give a spicy taste.
A special healing carrot or pumpkin, she ate water from a dragon vein. Fertilized her with manure Woolly Rhino and unicorn. Magical wind animals.
Therefore, pumpkin and carrots began to almost become spiritual plants that fed the meridians with healing energy. They could increase the level of cultivation. But it was classified information. Only the elect knew about them.
Since Shir Ali shared expensive saffron, the highlander decided to show him the pilaf as well. But of course, he did not talk about the subtleties. That product had to have spiritual roots.
And so everyone only knew that such pilaf was healing, necessary for raising immunity and treating the lungs.
Shir Ali did not yet know that modern British scientists will praise pilaf, saying that it is very tasty, but at the same time life-threatening. Since it has a lot of bad cholesterol. But he did not know, as the British scientists, that for the Russian, happiness, for the German - death.
That is, for residents of the former kingdom of Tsao, fatty foods were a salvation from stress, pressure, unsettled life, small salaries. This food allowed them to survive, and live on. All bad cholesterol was burned by the body. And for the well-fed and satisfied British, where there were democracy and capitalism, who led a healthy lifestyle, the fat pilaf blocked the vessels.
Each fruit and vegetable has its own region!
Highlander washed all the products with cold, spring water, dried them. I spread the carrots, red and white on large wooden dishes. Peas, meat, fat. In the bowls were spices - cumin, barberry, saffron.
Highlander, first chopped carrots finely, then folded it in a clean waist scarf *. Tied a scarf. And then he brought it to a large and deep bowl. He picked up a handkerchief and began to squeeze the contents into a bowl.
Carrot juice poured from the fabric, it flowed down. After a moment sufficient to eat two cherries, the bowl was full of juice.
The highlander shook the cake from the carrots under the very roots of the tree that grew in his yard. It was mulberry.
Then he handed the handkerchief to his girls, and those giggling ran to wash it.
The highlander rinsed his hands three times, wiped them, and afterward, he began to chop into two strips two types of carrots.
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* something of Japanese furoshiki - https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/840413980433819721/