Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, kid, or fowl, and flavored with spices, raisins, butter, broth, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
pillau .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
pilaf .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes
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Examples
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"The rice is called pilau - mixed with raisins, pine nuts and chopped carrots."
Call Of The Heart Delamere, Wanda 1982
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In truth this Caucasian wine, although rather sour, accompanied by the boiled fowl, known as pilau -- has rather a pleasant taste about it.
The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Jules Verne 1866
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If there was no food in the cupboard, she'd still manage to rustle up a feast – Bangladeshi food such as pilau rice, curry and korma.
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It's known as pilou, perloo, polo, pilau or as we call it here, pilaf.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Table Manners Ellen Kanner 2011
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"I'm here risking my head fighting the Americans, and he's eating chicken and pilau in Pakistan."
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The pilau is done when the rice is tender but not mushy.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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(I was no longer so enamoured of mutton pilau in ghee, * (* Native butter, cooking-fat.) you gather.)
Fiancée 2010
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And I do not only refer to the family table, with the paterfamilias presiding over a dinner of curry and pilau.
Food 2009
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They dined on fresh-speared fish and freeze-dried vegetables and pilau rice, with two energy bars each for dessert.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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Shira said ... moro was always my favorite restaurant in london, and the cookbooks are remarkably accessible. i'd particularly recommend the recipes for fish soup, slow-cooked fennel and pilau w/dill and broad beans.
Photos on a Saturday.. Michele 2007
yarb commented on the word pilau
Citation (as pillaw) on hard fish.
January 13, 2022