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Mushroom Pilaf

A meatless one-bowl meal, this mushroom pilaf can also be served as a side dish to meat or seafood. Fast, easy and tasty. Enjoy it for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Mushroom pilaf served with lime wedges

What is pilaf? It’s rice cooked in broth. It’s found in cuisines in many parts of the world including South Asia, Central Asia, the Caribbean, Western and Eastern Europe. Pilaf (pilau and pelau are some of the spelling variations) can be cooked with or without meat.

How does pilaf differ from risotto? Pilaf isn’t stirred during cooking which results in a fluffier rice dish. Pilaf is also more often cooked with long-grain rather than with stickier short-grain rice.

Is pilaf a difficult dish to cook? Oh, no! Just saute your flavor base, add the unrinsed rice, season, pour in the broth, cover the pan and let the rice absorb the liquid.

Mushroom Pilaf

Recipe by Connie Veneracion
Fresh shiitake, oyster mushrooms and shimeji were used in this recipe. Feel free to use some other mushroom combination or even just one kind of mushroom. It's the sauteeing prior to adding the rice that really gives this dish a lovely mushroom-y flavor and aroma.
Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 20 mins
Total Time 25 mins
Course Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine Asian, Caribbean, European
Servings 2 people
Mushroom pilaf garnished with torn cilantro
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Ingredients
  

  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1 ½ cups mixed fresh mushromms cut or torn into smaller pieces if large
  • 1 onion peeled and thinly sliced
  • salt
  • pepper
  • ½ cup Basmati rice unrinsed
  • 1 ¼ cups broth (chicken broth was used here but vegetable broth should be great too)
  • lime wedges to serve
  • cilantro to garnish

Instructions
 

  • Melt the butter in a pan and add the mushrooms. Cook stirring until a bit softened.
    Sauteeing mushrooms and onion slices in butter
  • Add the onion slices and continue sauteeing until the onion slices start to turn translucent.
  • Sprinkle in half a teaspoon of salt and a quarter teaspoon of pepper.
    Seasoning mushrooms before adding rice
  • Add the rice.
  • Stir until every grain of rice is coated with butter.
    Pouring broth into pan with rice and mushrooms
  • Pour in the broth.
  • Depending on how well seasoned the broth is, you may need to add more salt and pepper at this point.
  • Cover the pan, set the heat to low and cook (there is no need to stir) until the rice has absorbed all the liquid.
  • Fluff up the pilaf with a fork.
    Mushroom pilaf in pan
  • Taste and adjust the seasonings, if needed.
  • Ladle the mushroom pilaf into bowls and squeeze in a little lime or lemon juice.
    Mushroom Pilaf: a one-bowl meal
  • Sprinkle cilantro over the mushroom pilaf and serve with lemon or lime wedges on the side.
Keyword Mushrooms, One-bowl Meals, Pilaf, Rice
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Published: September 12, 2021 • Last modified: March 24, 2022 ♥ No Meat, One-bowl Meals, Breakfast / Snack, Lunch / Dinner, Rice

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