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Green Beans Pilav
🇹🇷 Turkish

Green Beans Pilav

🇹🇷 Turkish

A one-pot rice dish where green beans perfumes the grains as they cook — weeknight-friendly and endlessly adaptable. 30 minutes of mostly hands-off cooking.

Prep 10 min Cook 20 min Serves 4 Medium

Ingredients

  • Butter50 g
  • Saltto taste
  • Onion1, finely chopped
  • Rice300 g
  • Olive Oil2 tbsp
  • Green Beans400 g
  • Stock or Broth600 ml
  • Urfa Pepper Flakes1 tsp
  • Orzo Pasta80 g

Optional extras

  • Fresh Parsleyhandful, to finish

Instructions

  1. 1

    Rinse the rice until the water runs clear, then drain well.

  2. 2

    Heat the Olive Oil in a wide pot, soften the onion, and bloom the urfa pepper flakes for 30 seconds.

  3. 3

    Stir in the green beans, then add the rice and turn everything gently through the fragrant oil.

  4. 4

    Pour in the stock, bring to a boil, then clamp on a lid and cook on the lowest heat for 15 minutes without peeking.

  5. 5

    Rest off the heat for 5 minutes, then fluff with a fork and crown with fresh parsley.

Chef's tip

Never lift the lid while the rice steams — trapped steam is doing the work.

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Watch how it's made

Video: Green Beans and Rice Pilaf Recipes 💚 How to do? Turkish Village Food · on YouTube