Maash Palaw (Mung Bean with Rice)

Maash palaw or Mung Bean with Rice. As rice and mung beans are two of Afghanistan’s favorite ingredients, there are quite a number of recipes involving the pair of them. One such is ketcheree: short grain rice cooked up all stickily with garlic and quroot. But In this version (RECIPE 2), which sees mung beans […]

Narenj Palaw (Afghan Rice with orange)

Narenj Palaw or Norinj Palau (Rice with orange) is one of traditional Afghan dishes and it has a lovely delicate flavour. This pilau is prepared with the peel of the bitter (or Seville) oranges. It is quite a sweet dish. RECIPE: Ingredients 450 g long grain white rice, preferably basmati rice 75 ml vegetable oil […]