pilaf

[ pi-lahf, pee-lahf ]

/ pɪˈlɑf, ˈpi lɑf /

a Middle Eastern dish consisting of sautéed, seasoned rice steamed in bouillon, sometimes with poultry, meat or shellfish.

rice cooked in a meat or poultry broth.

QUIZZES

Even if you can't be a professional chef, you can at least talk like one with this vocabulary quiz.

Question 1 of 9

You may have read the word "simmer" in a recipe or two, but what does it really mean?

Also pi·laff, pilau, pilaw.

1925–30; <Turkish pilâv<Persian pilāw

So he did not take long to make up his mind, but sat down and consumed the pilaf to the very last morsel.
Pretty Michal|Mr Jkai
Kevork brought some sheep-tail grease in a bit of paper and I held my nose while I melted it and poured it into the pilaf.
The Red Rugs of Tarsus|Helen Davenport Gibbons
This was for their pilaf, the distribution of which was a complete scramble.
The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, December 1879|Various
But he did not want the bastinado again, and the pilaf pleasantly tickled his nostrils.
Pretty Michal|Mr Jkai

Osman and his mother ate the pilaf with their fingers, from the same dish.
Our Little Turkish Cousin|Mary Hazelton Wade