During religious holidays when fasting is necessary, or with diets, you want to treat yourself to pilaf. In this case, the meat often replaced with mushrooms. It turns out quick and easy to cooking a dish – lean pilaf with mushrooms.
If you add turmeric, vegetables and garlic to pilaf, you can make sure that this dish will take its rightful place even on the festive table. You can take a variety of mushrooms for lean pilaf: butter, champignons, honey agarics, white, chanterelles, etc. Used as fresh and frozen forest mushrooms. Cook pilaf can be in any capacity: cast iron, enameled, or just in deep pan.
Important rule: to make pilaf tasty and nutritious, onion advised to slightly “let it go”, trying not to overcook. Rice should be washed 2-3 times, and the pilaf itself pour 3 cm of boiling water above cereal level. These tips will help novice housewives cope with cooking lean pilaf.
We bring to your attention several recipes for lean pilaf with mushrooms.
Lean mushroom pilaf: recipe for cooking
- 2 tbsp. long grain rice;
- 2 large carrots;
- 2 onions;
- 50 ml of vegetable oil (can be replaced with olive);
- 300 g of boiled mushrooms;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1 tbsp. l spices for pilaf;
- 3 tbsp. water;
- salt to taste.
To prepare the dish, cut the mushrooms into slices, onions – half rings, carrots – straws.
Heat oil in a pan and put chopped mushrooms with vegetables. Fry the laid mass for 10 minutes, continuously stirring so as not to burn.
Pour washed rice into mushrooms, add sliced slices garlic, salt to taste and spices. Pour boiling water, mix and tightly close the lid.
Stew mushroom pilaf over low heat for 30-35 minutes, not opening the dishes. Each hostess selects a rice variety for her discretion, so cooking time may slightly differ.
Lean pilaf recipe with champignon mushrooms
The next version of lean pilaf with mushrooms champignons It is also prepared within 30-40 minutes. In this case, pilaf is obtained with rich mushroom aroma and amazing taste.
For him we need:
- 400 g of fresh champignons;
- 1.5 tbsp. rice;
- 2 medium onions;
- 2 carrots;
- 0.5 tbsp. l chopped celery root;
- 5 tbsp. l cooking oil for frying;
- 2 tsp salts;
- 2.5 tbsp. water;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 0.5 tsp black pepper;
- 0.5 tsp Paprika
- 0.5 tsp turmeric
- 1 bunch of green onions;
- 1 bunch of parsley.
Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots on a “Korean” grater.
Heat vegetable oil in a pan, shift chopped vegetables, sliced mushrooms and grated on coarse grater celery root. Simmer for 7-10 minutes, stirring constantly.
Add well-washed rice to the dishes with vegetables and add water. Add salt, chopped into large pieces of garlic, spices, well mix, cover and put on low heat. Stew 40 min, stirring gently periodically so that the pilaf does not burnt.
For the piquancy of pilaf, you can add a pinch of red ground pepper.
Serve the dish hot, decorating it with green onions first and parsley.
Lean pilaf recipe with mushrooms and round rice
We offer another interesting recipe for lean pilaf with mushrooms with photo below.
- 1.5 tbsp. round rice;
- 3 tbsp. water;
- 400 g of fresh mushrooms;
- 2 medium carrots;
- 3 onions;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 5 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
- 0.5 tsp chili and ground black pepper;
- 3 peas of allspice;
- 1 tsp. basil, coriander, oregano, sweet paprika;
- salt to taste.
Chop onions in half rings, carrots – thin strips, garlic chop finely.
Boil forest mushrooms in advance in salted water and discard on colander, and then cut into large pieces.
Heat the vegetable oil in a stewpan, send onion into it and Passage no more than 5 minutes. Add carrots and fry until ready until soft.
Put mushrooms for vegetables and stew together with the vegetable mixture 15 min
Put the washed rice in a saucepan to the mushrooms, add water, salt to taste. Add all seasonings and spices to the pilaf, well mix and leave to simmer under a closed lid for 25-30 minutes.
Periodically it is necessary to open the lid and check the readiness rice.
Lenten pilaf with mushrooms will go well with light vegetable salads. This dish also looks richly on holiday table and great for daily meal.
