Description
A gorgeous dish where pilaf cooked with chicken, almonds, pine nuts, and spices is wrapped in a thin pastry shell called 'perde' (curtain) and baked in an oven.
Restaurants serving Perde Pilavı
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Rice
- Chicken
- Almonds
- Pine nuts
- Pastry dough
- Cinnamon
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- Knead flour, egg, yogurt, and butter for pastry dough. Butter a deep dome mold entirely, arrange raw almonds in geometric patterns, and line the mold with thinly rolled dough over the almonds.
- Boil chicken and shred. Sauté pine nuts, almonds, and rice in butter, cook a firm pilaf with chicken broth, currants, cinnamon, allspice, and salt, and mix in shredded chicken.
- Pack the pilaf tightly into the dough-lined mold, and fold the overhanging dough to seal the bottom. Bake in the oven until the dough is golden brown, then invert onto a plate and remove the mold.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Cinnamon and Allspice
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Frozen puff pastry, Store-bought roasted almonds
Pairing
Ayran
Trivia
[Hardcore] An essential traditional dish for weddings in the Siirt region. The dough means 'keeping family secrets', rice means 'fertility'; all ingredients carry blessing messages for the bride.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Cut with a knife to break the crispy crust (perde), and eat while enjoying the piping hot spiced pilaf bursting out with steam from inside!
Allergen
Wheat, Dairy, Egg, Chicken, Tree nuts