This is my son Eldar’s favourite rice dish. It’s the perfect accompaniment for most meat dishes, with a delicious combination of carrots, raisins and onions. It’s preferable for the paired meat dish to be without a rich sauce, as the rice has so much flavour of its own. Let the raisins heat up enough to reach the point where they puff up – that’s when the flavour changes from being too sweet to just right.
