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Definition of Pilaf
1. Noun. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
Definition of Pilaf
1. Noun. A dish made by browning grain in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth. It may also contain meat and/or vegetables. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pilaf
1. a dish made of seasoned rice and often meat [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilaf
Literary usage of Pilaf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896)
"... one-half teaspoon chopped parsley, and salt and pepper to taste. Moisten with
one-half cup White Stock, and cook fifteen minutes. Turkish pilaf 1. ..."
2. Siberia and Central Asia by John Wesley Bookwalter (1899)
"... —pilaf, etc.— Oriental dancing—Producing similar effects by rhythm of
motion—Concluding reflections. ..."
3. The Women of Turkey and Their Folk-lore by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett, John S. Stuart-Glennie (1891)
"But if you will not go, then I will go, and this time she must kill me, prepare
you a pilaf, cook it, and send it." The Dev replied, " My son, sit still. ..."
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