Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, gamopilafo (wedding pilaf). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Gamopilafo. (Greek Wedding Rice, Γαμοπίλαφο, Κρητικό πιλάφι). Gamopilafo is also known as wedding rice, referring to the fact that the dish was only prepared and enjoyed on special occasions. This is a recipe by my mother-in-law.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have gamopilafo (wedding pilaf) using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Gamopilafo (wedding pilaf):
- Make ready 1 kg lamb meat
- Take 1,5 kg chicken (1 chicken)
- Make ready 2 cups long grain white rice
- Prepare 2 tbsp stakovoutiro (traditional Cretan butter from goat's milk)
- Prepare allspice
- Make ready 1/4 cup lemon juice
- Prepare salt, pepper in grains
The Cretan rice as wedding dish symbolises fertility and wishes for plenty of "goods" to the newlywed. Traditionally, this rice is served at Cretan weddings usually made with a combo of goat or lamb and. Gamopilafo is a special rice dish that is served in Greece for weddings. This dish is considered extra special since it uses Pepper, to taste.
Instructions to make Gamopilafo (wedding pilaf):
- Wash the meats thoroughly and boil them together over low heat for about 2 hours, adding a tbsp of salt to the water as well as the pepper.
- When they are done, remove the pieces of meat, strain the stock and season them with salt and pepper.
- Measure the stock, for every 3 cups of stock you need 1 cup of rice. Boil the strained stock once more and add the rice, over medium heat, stirring so that it doesn't stick until it absorbs all the juice (about 15-20 minutes). Add 1/4 cup of lemon juice to the rice just before it is completely done.
- Brown the stakovoutiro in a small pot, remove the pot from heat and pour it over the rice setting it aside for 5 minutes covered with a towel.
- The meat and rice are served seperately.
How to Prepare Greek Wedding Pilaf: Add lamb to a large pot. Gamopílafo ("wedding pilaf") is the prized pilaf served traditionally at weddings and major celebrations in Crete: rice is boiled in lamb or goat broth, then finished with lemon juice. Gamopilafo actually means "wedding rice" because it was first served at weddings since rice symbolises fertility and abundance. The rice is cooked in a meat broth and has a rich flavour due to. The perfect traditional Greek rice pilaf (pilafi) recipe!
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