Name: Lamb and Cracked Wheat Pilau
Yield: serves 4
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: 12 oz cracked wheat (bulgur, bulgar and many other spellings); 2 cloves garlic – crushed; 4 fl oz plus 1 pint water; 2 tablespoons tomato paste salt and freshly ground black pepper; 3 oz butter; 8 oz onion – finely diced; 1 lb lean lamb – cut into ½in cubes; 4 oz green sweet pepper – diced; 2 fresh hot green chilli peppers or 2 dried hot red ones

Preparation info

serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Independent Cook

By Jeremy Round

Published 1988

About

Taking the theme of hogget, mature lamb, as an excellent meat for curries and Middle Eastern dishes, here is a very simple cracked wheat pilau.

Ingredients

1 lb lean lamb – cut into ½in cubes
3 oz butter

Method

In a heavy, well seasoned casserole, over a medium-high flame, brown meat thoroughly without the addition of any fat.

Remove meat, set aside, turn the flame down a little and put in 1 oz of the butter. In this, fry the onion until soft and beginning to brown. Add the garlic and let it siz

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