RICE PILAF PIE – TURKISH PERDE PILAVI
Rice pilaf pie can be described as a festive dish. Rice pilaf pie is called "Drape Pilaf" in Turkish because you cover the pilaf you made with a delicious dough.
Ingredients
For the pilaf:
- 3 cups of rice
- 2 spoonful butter
- 4 1/2 cups water and chicken stock mixture
- 2 chicken legs
- 1 tablespoon of currants
- 200 gr. raw almonds
- 2 tablespoons of pine nuts
- Black pepper salt
For dough:
- 2 eggs
- 4 tablespoons of yogurt
- 1/2 cup of olive oil
- Salt
- as much flour as it takes
Instructions
- Start the making of Rice pilaf pie by boiling the chicken drumsticks.
- After boiling the chickens, you can start making rice with chicken broth.
- Melt the margarine in the rice pot and sauté the rice in oil for 3-4 minutes, which you have washed and drained well.
- Add 2 bowls of boiled chicken stock over the rice.
- Add half a tablespoon of salt and close the lid.
- Remove from the heat before the rice is fully cooked, while it is still slightly hard.
- Mix the pulled chicken, currants, and black pepper with the pilaf.
- Making the dough:
- First of all, grease your mold well with butter. Place the almonds in the greased mold as you wish and put the mold in the refrigerator.
- Knead your dough by mixing all the dough ingredients.
- Divide the dough into two pieces, one small and one big.
- Open the larger one 3mm thick and place it nicely on the bottom of the container, covering the edges.
- Pour the rice into it.
- Preheat your oven to 200 oC.
- Open the small piece of dough in the same way and cover it on the rice.
- Cook the rice pilaf pie in the oven preheated to 200 degrees until it is golden brown. Turn it over and serve.