Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken pilaf. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chicken Pilaf is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Chicken Pilaf is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken pilaf using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Pilaf:

1. Get large knob butter
2. Take banana shallots, diced
3. Make ready garlic, chopped
4. Prepare leek, sliced
5. Prepare celery, sliced
6. Make ready unsmoked bacon, diced
7. Get chestnut mushrooms, sliced
8. Make ready peppers (one each red & green), deseeded and sliced
9. Prepare cooked chicken, diced
10. Take long-grain rice
11. Get sumac
12. Take Salt
13. Get Ground black pepper
14. Take dry white wine
15. Make ready chicken stock
16. Get large tomato, cut into wedges
17. Prepare Coriander or parsley to garnish (optional - I omitted this time)

Instructions to make Chicken Pilaf:

1. Pre-heat oven to Gas Mark 3 or electric equivalent (Circotherm 150C)
2. Melt the butter in a casserole and gently fry the shallots for 4 minutes,stirring only to avoid sticking.
3. Add the garlic and fry for a further 2 minutes, stirring gently.
4. Stir in the leek and continue frying for another 2 minutes. Then add the celery and bacon, stirring occasionally, and after 3 minutes stir in the mushrooms, then the peppers. Stir all gently but thoroughly for 1 minute.
5. Add the chicken, rice, sumac, salt and pepper. Stir thoroughly again.
6. Add wine and stock and bring to the boil. Cover and put in oven for 35-40 minutes, or until the liquid is absorbed and the rice cooked.
7. Check after around 25 minutes that the rice mixture hasn’t “run dry”. It rarely happens but, if so, just add a splash or two of water. This is not a risotto so the aim is not to have a “wet” plate of food, just nice, fluffy, moist rice.
8. Top with the tomato wedges and, if wished, coriander or parsley garnish. Serve onto warmed plates.

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