Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, gamopilafo (wedding pilaf). One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Gamopilafo (wedding pilaf) is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Gamopilafo (wedding pilaf) is something which I have loved my entire life.
Made from rice, chicken broth and stakovoutyro (the famous sun-kissed butter from Chania). The Cretan rice as wedding dish symbolises fertility and wishes for plenty of "goods" to the newlywed. Gamopilafo. (Greek Wedding Rice, Γαμοπίλαφο, Κρητικό πιλάφι).
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. 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
- Prepare 1,5 kg chicken (1 chicken)
- Make ready 2 cups long grain white rice
- Make ready 2 tbsp stakovoutiro (traditional Cretan butter from goat's milk)
- Make ready allspice
- Take 1/4 cup lemon juice
- Make ready salt, pepper in grains
However, you don't need to wait that long to enjoy it. This is a recipe by my mother-in-law. And we don't wait for weddings to make it. 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.
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.
Learn how to make and prepare the recipe for gamopilafo, also known as Greek style wedding rice. greekboston.com. The perfect traditional Greek rice pilaf (pilafi) recipe! A combination of gamos - the Greek word for wedding - and pilaf, gamopilafo is a rice dish traditionally eaten at Cretan weddings. Nowadays however, the dish can be found in many taverna. You can also taste cheese and dairy products, fine meat, good wine, virgin olive oil, traditionally cooked snails, the famous "gamopilafo" (wedding pilaf) which is goat meat and turkey with rice.
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