Palao (Pillau of Kid)

Ingredients

• four pounds of rice
• one pound and a quarter of melted ghee or butter
• eight ounces of onions
• two ounces of salt
• eight ounces of milk curd
• two pounds of a well-grown kid
• one ounce of cloves
• one ounce of cardamoms

Method

1. 1

   Soak rice for half an hour, fry sliced onions in ghee until light brown.

2. 2

   Fry meat, add salt and curd, stew until half cooked.

3. 3

   Add water, cloves, cardamoms, rice, and fried onions.

4. 4

   Stew until cooked, about two hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 146. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Palao. (Pillau of Kid.) Take four pounds of rice, one pound and a quarter of melted ghee or butter, eight ounces of onions, two ounces 358 PUNJAB (Mussulman) of salt, eight ounces of milk curd, two pounds of a well- grown kid, one ounce of cloves, and one ounce of carda- moms (unground) . Soak the rice in water, changing the water three times, and let it remain in the water for half an hour. Cut the onion into thin slices, and fry in boiling ghee or butter to a light brown. Cut the meat into small pieces and fry in the ghee. Add the salt and the curd, and stew till half cooked; ; then put in two pounds of water, the cloves, the cardamoms, the rice, and fried onions (which have been ground or well bruised). Stew the whole until quite cooked, which will be in about two hours. Eat with maize cakes (papar) and chutnies. Papar. (Maize Cakes Spiced.) Make a dough of finely ground maize flour and water ; season with a little cloves, cinnamon, black pepper, and salt. Roll out extremely thin, and cut into rounds and shapes of various sizes, and fry in boiling ghee. Bite Kelia. (Baked Banana and Cocoanut.) Take a teacupful of grated cocoanut and fry it till quite brown in a little ghee. Now stir in a few small cardamoms, a pinch of saffron, a teacupful of sugar, and sufficient rose water to make a soft mass when the sugar is melted. Peel, slice through the middle longwise, and cut into two-inch lengths three bananas ; put them on a dish in which you have poured one ounce of melted ghee ; 359 BANQUETS OF THE NATIONS cover thickly with the above mixture, and push into a moderate oven till the pieces of bananas are soft. Apples, pears, peaches, apricots, cherries, and plums may be cooked in the same way. Rotri. (Sweetened Milk.) Reduce four pounds of milk by boiling to a fourth of its original weight, then sweeten with sugar. Motichoor Laddoo. (Spiced Sugar Balls.) Sift four pounds powdered gram (very small beansl, and to this are added one and a half ounces of ghee and half an ounce of salt. These are mixed, and enough water added to form a batter capable of pouring. A kettle containing two and a half pounds of ghee is put on a very gentle fire and allowed to boil. The batter already prepared is poured into a perforated ladle and allowed to fall through the holes in the form of glo- bules into the boiling ghee. These at once solidify, and are removed with another perforated ladle, and set to the one side. Make a strong syrup of two and a half pounds of water and five and a half pounds of sugar, The whole mass of pellets is put into the solution of sugar and mixed. Cardamoms, cloves, and almonds are added. The mass is then wrought with the hands into the form of balls about the size of a small orange. Zarda. (Sweet Rice.) Take one pound three ounces of rice, wash it twice, and keep it in water for an hour. Then make a syrup of twelve ounces of sugar in six ounces of water. 360 PUNJAB (Mussulman) Put three ounces of ghee in a pan, also four cloves and six ounces of water. When the water boils put in the rice, and when the water dries up put thirty grains of saffron in the syrup already prepared, and mix it with the rice. Stir it with a spoon, and when the syrup is dried mix in four ounces of milk. Take the juice of an orange along with the juice of three prunes, which have been first steeped for some time in water, and pour it into the rice, and cook till rice is soft. Rabbri. (Curdled Milk and Fruit.) Have two pounds six ounces of milk boiled slowly, and have the cream put aside by a spoon. When the milk is reduced to nearly four ounces remove it, and mix up all the cream with it. When it becomes cool, mix in two ounces of suga

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