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UK
/pˈɪlaʊ/
]
NOUN
- rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes
How To Use pilau In A Sentence
- Pilau is a delicious dish of rice spiced with curry, cinnamon, cumin, hot peppers, and cloves.
- There's also oxtail on the menu, as well as rice pilau, and, if you call ahead, the owner will make ginger beer.
- The pilau is done when the rice is tender but not mushy. One Big Table
- Steve Davis, presumably incapable of operating at a table without round multi-coloured objects on it, enjoys his dinner (as much as he can enjoy it, finding himself snookered on the chicken tikka masala by the lamb saag and prawn dopiaza, with the angle covered by the vegetable balti and pilau rice) Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
- Often when we tried to recreate dishes at home such as fragrant pilaus we had enjoyed at an Indian restaurant or the sushi rolls we devoured with saki at a sushi bar, it somehow just didn't translate.
- At night, as you dine by oil lamp on kingfish, pilau rice and tropical fruits, the fishing boats set forth once more like Viking ships, their prows cutting through the waves and paddles fighting with the swell.
- Many main courses on the menu come with pilau rice or naan breads, but do ask for an alternative if you prefer (I chose plain boiled rice instead).
- So was the food, which consisted of three starters and a main course of three curries, pilau rice and two nan breads.
- And I do not only refer to the family table, with the paterfamilias presiding over a dinner of curry and pilau. Food
- The pilau was served with fried onion and peas and was tasty, whereas the masala rice suffered from an overdose of black pepper.