Slow cooker pilaf with ginger, raisins, and dried apricots: Yevhen Klopotenko shares his cooking secrets

Pilaf is a hearty and delicious dish based on healthy rice, meat, and spices. Everyone cooks it differently, some people add chicken, others beef and lamb. Usually, it takes about 1-2 hours to cook, but if you choose a simpler recipe, you can cook the dish in 45 minutes.

Chef Yevhen Klopotenko shared a recipe for a delicious pilaf with meat, ginger, dried apricots, and raisins on his website, which you can cook in a slow cooker.

Ingredients:

• basmati rice – 500 g
• pork tenderloin – 800 g

• onions – 3 pcs

• carrots – 2 pcs
• garlic – 1 head

• dried apricots – 50 g
• raisins – 50 g
• coriander seeds – 1 tsp
• paprika – 1 tsp
• ginger – 1/3 tsp

• allspice – 4 peas
• black pepper – 3 peas
• dried tomatoes – 50 g
• chili pepper flakes – 1/2 tsp
• cumin – 1/2 tsp

• bay leaves – 3 pcs
• sugar – 1/2 tsp
• sunflower oil – 100 ml
• salt – to taste

Method of preparation:

1. Wash the rice.

2. Wash, peel, and cut the carrots into strips.

3. Peel and dice the onion and cut one head of garlic in half.

4. Pour sunflower oil into the multicooker bowl and fry the onion. Then add the carrots and fry for another 5 minutes.

5. Cut the meat and add to the slow cooker, mix well.

6. Wash the dried apricots, dry them, cut them into strips along with the tomatoes, and put them in the slow cooker.

7. Then add all the spices.

8. At the very end, add the rice, cover with water, and put the garlic, cut into two parts, on top.