Chop onions and fry the till golden brown

Add garlic and ginger paste and cook for about 1 minute. Make sure they don't burn

Add pilau masala and cumin spice and mix well

Add your boiled beef and mix well. Let it cook through for about 2 mins on medium heat

Add salt to your preference

Add your potatoes and mix well. Let it cook for about 2 mins also so that the oil,spices and beef marry nicely with the potatoes

Add coriander and mix for 1 min

Add your rice and mix well

Pour in the beef broth measured as 2 and 1/2 cups. Mix everything well

If using gas cooker, cover the sufuria with a lid and reduce the heat. Let it cook for about 15mins. By now the aroma must be torturing you like crazy :)

If using a jiko,put aside your sufuria and scoop out some hot charcoal and place it on top of your lid

Take two sheets of newspaper,dip them in water and drain off dripping water then cover the top part of the sufuria with them

Place the sufuria lid which has hot charcoal on top and let it cook

The concept of using damp newspaper sheets and covering the lid with hot charcoal is to make the pilau get its authentic infused aroma and make the rice come out one by one(direct translation :D)

You will know your pilau is ready when the potatoes and rice are cooked

Serve while hot and garnish with some lemony kachumbari,chopped dhania and cooked pilipili(will do a recipe on this. No wahala)

Teremsha the sweet pilau with a glass of cold juice or your preferred beverage

Please try this beef pilau recipe and let me know how it turned out. Its a sure quick fix for those days you crave for authentic Swahili pilau