Grains And Dough
土耳其中枢脊柱 Pilaf: The Rice and Grain Tradition
The pilaf (pilav — پیلاو) tradition — cooking grain in fat before adding liquid, producing separate, flavoured grains — originated in the Persian-Central Asian tradition and was refined and elaborated by Ottoman Turkish cooking into the world's most systematically documented grain preparation method. Claudia Roden notes that the Ottoman pilaf tradition encompasses wheat, rice, and bulgur in equal measure — all three grains treated with the same fundamental technique but producing categorically different results.
Overview
The Turkish pilaf system — the technique and its variations.
Source
SCANDINAVIAN NORDIC DEEP + TURKISH DEEP + INDIGENOUS NORTH AMERICAN
Cross-Cuisine Parallels
- Persian chelou (same fat-toasted grain technique — the pilaf's origin point), Indian pulao (same technique — the Mughal transmission from Persian through Turkish), Spanish rice preparations (same fat-