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Pilau or Pilaf of Chicken

Posted in - Mrs C.S. Peel's Recipes & Poultry on September 29th 2013 3 Comments chicken pancetta pilaf pilau rice saffron

What makes this dish special is the saffron. Bacon is always a bonus and because I had very thinly sliced pancetta in the fridge, the combination of it with the rice was light and perfect. So if you can get some very fine pancetta or something similar, it is worth the texture difference. Streaky bacon …

Eat meat from happily reared animals, and then you have their permission to really enjoy what you eat. Seconded by my great great grandmother, Dorothy Peel, in her books 100 years ago: ‘To judge by a letter which has appeared in the daily press and from private conversations it would seem that many people think that to abstain from meat on one of two days a week and to limit their total consumption to 2 ½ lb. per head per week is a restriction which may seriously affect their health. To be quite frank, it may affect their greed, but it certainly will not adversely affect their health; indeed, there seems good reason to think that less meat-eating would improve the health of the well-to-do.’ Mrs C.S. Peel, The Eat Less Meat Book, 1917