An unexpected solution - pumpkin pilaf!

Pilaf serving time. Highlander brought a large dish.

"In serving pilaf, the most important order! Watch how I do, learn!" the highlander deftly wielding a large spoon said.

First, the highlander laid out purple rice on the dish, which turned out like this from adding water with saffron and carrot juice. Rice shone in the sun, it was saturated with oil, juice, and water from saffron. The mountain of rice was a pleasant golden red color. It caused a sensation from a rare treasure. the aroma was extremely attractive so that the mountaineer and Shir Ali had a twisting stomach. I wanted to eat incredibly!

On the golden-red rice, the highlander laid out pieces of meat, as well as two marrow bones from which the bone marrow peeked. He was considered very nutritious in the mountains, giving energy and strength to muscles. In the 20th century, bone marrow was considered a concentration of "bad cholesterol." A different concept of taste and healthy nutrition.

The next layer, which was put on rice, was a carrot, it almost became transparent. Juicy from butter, juices from meat, and vegetables.

Highlander evenly spread the carrots. After rice, he stuck the heads of garlic, laid out red pepper, sprinkled with raisins.

Pilaf was ready to serve.

The branches rustled from the wind, the birds flooded with their songs. At the bottom of the river, it was noisy. The mountain air was clean and pleasant to inhale.

The highlander called the girls, his wife, boys, his mother, and father. Himself sat on the right hand of the father, the girls, and the wife on the left. He invited ShirAli to a place near him.

Usually in the city, other rules were followed. Women were supposed to eat separately from men, later. With strangers, they should not have left their half. But Shir Ali was only 8 years old and he was not considered an adult. Until he was 12 years old. Yes, and it was the mountains, here the old customs were observed, mountain and not urban. Since everyone in the mountain village was relatives, acquaintances whom they had known throughout their lives. In this village, their ancestors lived last 1700 years! The first settlers were aristocrats who fled from hordes of nomads. Their homeland was far in the west, near a huge sea, inside a whole continent. They were the last of the aristocrats. who were able to escape in the mountain gorges of the "Red Camel" that were in the heart of the desert and here on the outskirts in the east in the mountains of "Light".

"Well, welcome to visit us ..." said the highlander.

"Hey, Shir Ali, why are you lying on the floor? Isn't it cold for you? Well, you have drunk saffron water ... Ahahhahahaha" the grandfather laughed.

"Oh, I'm back in our world, was it all a dream?" flashed through Shir Ali's head.

"I never tasted the taste of that pilaf!" all that revolved in his head.

"Why are you keeping silent"? grandfather asked again.

"Farik Ava*l, if you allow me to use your kitchen today, I had a wonderful dream! Today I want to make a pilaf from carrots!" the grandson clearly minted.

"Well, you guy, give ?! What Farik Aval? I am to you? Why are you? Am I your grandfather? !!! You understand!" and the old fox, was flattered and laughed joyfully, "Ahahahahhhahaahaa, nobody has called me like that for about 6 years now!"

"Go to the kitchen, do what you want, but if the food doesn't succeed, then I'm your grandfather, like a farik aval, I'll show you how to harass the products. You'll be at my guardhouse, peel potatoes for three weeks, wash the floor, and go with me to market"!

"Well, do you agree?" asked the grandfather.

"Yes"! the joyful Shir Ali responded immediately.

"But here's the thing, I don't have carrots, but the only pumpkin!" Grandma spoke right away.

"Can you make a delicious pilaf from a pumpkin?" she asked, smiling slyly.

"Yes, dear grandmother, this will be a challenge for me, I want to try to reproduce pilaf of the 12th century, one was with carrots and the other with pumpkin!" Immediately retorted the grandson.

Pumpkin cleanses the intestines well, but anyone who has diabetes, arthrosis, gout can not eat pumpkin.

But the combination of rice, pumpkin, and meat helps the heart, a good laxative, more protein in a pumpkin than in quail eggs! Well heals wounds help to see better! It cures tuberculosis! It provides natural immunity! Pumpkin with fat is better absorbed by the human body! Strengthens the mucous membrane and make her skin healthier! It treats gastritis, helps to reduce diseases with inflammation of the stomach and intestines.

Apparently in antiquity so pilaf, people prepared themselves for a long winter in order to raise immunity and so that their eyes could see better and there were no problems with the lungs!

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* Farik Aval - Lieutenant General - Arab rank in some countries. The language of Small-An is Esperanto of the Silk Road - borrowing words from Arabic (old Arabic 8-14 centuries), Persian, Turkic, Jurchen languages.