pilaf

Example Sentences

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Here are two entry-level examples: using citrus zest and juice in a salad dressing; and cooking scallion whites into a rice pilaf and then garnishing the finished dish with scallion greens.

From Washington Times • Jun. 23, 2023

Do you want linguini, potato, rice pilaf or veggies?

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2023

They parsed the novel’s winding sentences over cups of sweet tea and bowls of hand-pulled noodles and rice pilaf, Byler said.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2022

“You can treat it like a pilaf for chirashi,” she says.

From Washington Post • May 5, 2022

We started at the top and tasted each: soup, mutton, stewed green beans, new-baked bread, stewed plums, and a particularly appetizing pilaf, made out of boiled whole wheat and raisins.

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