Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, pilau (sorghum/cowpea). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
PILAU (sorghum/cowpea) is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. PILAU (sorghum/cowpea) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
Pilau is a rice dish that consists of rice flavored with spices and cooked in stock, to which meat, poultry, hard-boiled eggs or fish may be added. Pilau is one of the meals that define Kenyan cuisine. Pilau is a rice dish that is cooked in a seasoned broth, with some pieces of beef, chicken and sometimes peas, nuts and raisins, and whose brown.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook pilau (sorghum/cowpea) using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make PILAU (sorghum/cowpea):
- Take 2 cups de-hulled sorghum (500gms)
- Get 2 cups cowpeas (500gms)
- Prepare 2 medium sized chopped onions
- Take 1 cloves crushed Garlic
- Get 1 small crushed fresh ginger
- Get 1 tea spoon ginger powder
- Make ready 4 tablespoons cooking oil
- Take 1 tablespoon pilau masala
- Make ready royco (optional)
- Prepare 1 bunch dhania
- Take to taste Salt
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is an under-utilized crop and one of the most important cereal crops in semi-arid tropics. In Kenya, sorghum is grown in the often drought-prone marginal. The cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is an annual herbaceous legume from the genus Vigna. Due to its tolerance for sandy soil and low rainfall, it is an important crop in the semiarid regions across Africa and Asia.
Instructions to make PILAU (sorghum/cowpea):
- Clean the cowpeas and soak in water for 1 hour (optional)
- Par boil the cowpeas
- Wash to sorghum and add to par boil cowpeas
- Boil together until tender
- Drain the water
- Fry the onions to golden brown
- Add the garlic and ginger and fry until brown
- Add the pilau masala and cook evenly
- Add royco (optional)
- Add the sorghum cowpea mix and simmer for 10 min
- Add the chopped dhania and serve hot with vegetables.
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) belongs to the Poaceae family. In Kenya, it is grown in Western, Eastern, Northern Rift valley and some parts of Central province and it is cultivated majorly for its seeds. Sorghum is an extremely versatile grain that you can serve like rice or quinoa. Try sorghum for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks your friends and family will love. Sorghum beer is one of the most popular drinks in South Africa.
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