Qabili Palau
By: Sheri Wetherell
Published: Monday, January 18, 2010 - 5:04pm

Ingredients




2 cups basmati rice
2 cups mutton broth
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup golden raisins
1/2 cup dried apricots, diced
1 cup grated carrot
1 cup shelled pistachios
1 cup cauliflower, chopped into florets and cooked
1 cup peas
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cardamon
1 pound stewing mutton

Preparation

1 Stew the mutton ahead of time, preserving two cups of the broth, then refrigerate. 2 Preheat oven to 350 degrees; grease a casserole dish. 3 Saute nuts, carrots and cauliflower in 1 tbsp of butter, stirring often, until lightly cooked. 4 Make the rice using the broth to substitute for 2 cups of the water required. When the rice is almost done, add the other ingredients, including the remaining tbsp of butter, except for the mutton pieces, and cook five more minutes. 5 Add mutton and pour into large greased casserole or dutch oven and bake 10-15 minutes, covered. If rice is too dry add 1/4 cup water or mutton broth before baking. 6 Serve with Afghan bread or pita bread and cucumber yogurt salad.

About


Also known as kabuli palau, this mutton dish is a national dish of Afghanistan. The Afghans eat this with their hands while sitting cross-legged on cushions.
Chicken and chicken broth may be used instead of mutton.