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Side Dish · Kenya Recipe

Pilau Rice

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 pounds rice
  • Water according to rice
  • 1/2 pound green peas
  • 2 cans pilau masala (type of spice)
  • 3 onions
  • 3 tomatoes
  • Crisco oil
  • Salt

Directions

  1. Wash the rice with cold water.
  2. Boil the peas until its cooked.
  3. Chop onions and then fry them until they turn slightly brown. Then add tomatoes that have been peeled and cut.
  4. Boil some of the rice water with the pilau masala until it boils. Add some salt to taste.
  5. Add the rest of the water to the fried onions and tomatoes
  6. Then add the green peas when the water starts boiling and the rice.
  7. Let it cook.
Yield
4 to 6