Solo Chicken Pineapple Pilaf Recipes

EASY PINEAPPLE CHICKEN

Steps:

• Combine soy sauce, 2 tablespoons olive oil, paprika, and salt in a bowl. Add chicken strips and let marinate while preparing the remaining ingredients.
• Heat the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a wok. Add bell pepper and stir-fry for 3 minutes. Add scallions and cook for 2 more minutes. Remove chicken from marinade and add to the wok; discard marinade. Cook, stirring occasionally, until chicken is cooked through and no longer pink in the centre, 10 to 15 minutes.
• Combine pineapple juice and cornstarch in a bowl; mix together. Add pineapple chunks to the skillet and cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Pour in pineapple juice mixture and bring to a boil. Simmer until sauce has thickened, about 3 minutes.

SAFFRON SCENTED CHICKEN PILAF

Steps:

• Marinate the chicken pieces in the yogurt, lemon and cinnamon for about an hour. Soak the saffron threads in the chicken stock.
• Over medium heat, in a large pan with a lid, melt the butter along with 1 tablespoon oil and add the rice, stirring it to coat until glossy. Pour in the saffron and chicken stock, add the cardamom pods, lemon juice and zest and bring the pan to the boil, then clamp on a lid and turn the heat down to very low. Cook like this for about 10-15 minutes, by which time the rice should have absorbed the liquid and be cooked through.
• While the rice is cooking, shake the excess yogurt marinade off the chicken using a sieve. Then fry the meat in a hot pan with the remaining spoonful or so of oil, and do this in batches so that the chicken colours rather than just pallidly stews to cookedness.
• When the rice is cooked, take it off the heat and fork through the pan-bronzed chicken pieces. Toast all the nuts except the pistachios, by simply shaking them in an oil-less frying-pan over a medium heat until they colour and begin to give off their waxy scent, and then add them to the pilaf along with the chopped parsley. Pile everything on to a plate and add a fabulously green sprinkling of slivered or roughly chopped pistachios.

SOLO CHICKEN MUSHROOM PILAF

Steps:

• Melt the butter with the olive oil in a frying pan that has a tight fitting lid.
• Add the diced onion and saute until nearly transparent.
• Dice the chicken breast and add to the pan, stirring until all sides of the meat have turned white.
• Add the uncooked rice and stir until all of the grains are covered with the cooking fat.
• Add the mushrooms, and stir.
• Add the chicken broth, stir and bring up the heat until the liquid starts to simmer.
• Put on the cover, reduce the heat to the minimum setting and set your timer for 15 minutes and walk away. DO NOT PEEK.
• After 15 minutes, turn off the heat, DO NOT PEEK and set your time for another 15 minutes, and walk away.
• Fluff with fork or spoon. Service options might include a small side salad and a cool beverage.

PINEAPPLE PILAF

Steps:

• In a frying pan melt half of the butter, add the pineapple and raisins, fry for 2 to 3 minutes or until the pineapple is lightly browned, remove from the stove and set aside.
• Melt the rest of the butter in a large pan, add the green onions, fry for one minute, add the nuts, coriander, cayenne and when using the chili pepper, fry for 2 minutes.
• Now add the rice with the salt and fry this for 3-4 minutes, stirring constantly.
• Add the pineapple-raisin mixture and the boiling stock or water.
• Bring to the boil, lower the heat and cover the pan.
• Simmer for 20 minutes or until all the liquid is absorbed.
• Let the pilaf rest for 10 minutes, serve if desired with chopped parsley.

SOLO TERIYAKI CHICKEN PILAF

Steps:

• Dice chicken into 1/4 inch pieces, and mix the next five ingredients and use to marinate the chicken in a shallow dish for at least a half hour.
• Pour the liquid from the canned mushrooms into a measuring cup and add enough additional chicken stock to make 2/3 cup liquid.
• Heat a shallow pan with a tight fitting cover and add the cooking oil.
• Add the chicken and stir until the meat starts to turn white on all sides, add mushrooms and raw rice grains.
• Stir until the rice is mixed with the oil and then add the liquid.
• Cover, and reduce flame to the lowest level.
• Cook for 15 minutes without lifting the cover, and then let sit for an additional 5 minutes with no heat before serving.

SOLO CHICKEN PINEAPPLE PILAF

Steps:

• First saute the onion in the olive oil until limp, add the curry powder and raw rice.
• Stir until all the rice gains are coated with the oil, add the chicken pineapple and the peppers.
• Add the stock and juice and cover with a tight fitting lid.
• Cook over very low heat for 15 minutes, then remove from the heat leave covered and let sit for additional 10 minutes.