{"id":712,"date":"2012-04-18T21:22:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T21:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feastandflowers.com\/?p=712"},"modified":"2012-04-18T21:22:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T21:22:40","slug":"recipe-armenian-pilaf-lahvosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feastandflowers.com\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"recipe: armenian pilaf &#038; lahvosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-502\" title=\"2012-04-07_18-36-18_746\" src=\"http:\/\/feastandflowers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012-04-07_18-36-18_7462.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feastandflowers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012-04-07_18-36-18_7462.gif 540w, https:\/\/feastandflowers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012-04-07_18-36-18_7462-169x300.gif 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most American dinner tables accompany a meal with a starch&#8230; usually potatoes of some kind.\u00a0 The staple side dish in our home was pilaf.\u00a0 We had pilaf with our &#8220;lamb burgers&#8221; not fries!\u00a0 It is quick, easy and delicious.\u00a0 I always have these ingredients in my pantry for a side dish.\u00a0 The bread is an Armenian flat bread.\u00a0 My grandmother would make this, stacking flat rounds of bread a foot high each in the pantry.\u00a0 I purchase the bread from &#8220;Valley Bakery&#8221; in Fresno, CA.\u00a0 They call the bread Valley Lahvosh, original Armenian Sesame Seed Cracker Bread.\u00a0 This is the closest bread I have found to my Grandmother&#8217;s.\u00a0 You wet the bread with a spray of water and then wrap it in a clean dish towel.\u00a0 As kids we had our sandwiches on this softened bread.\u00a0 I was always slightly embarrassed by my Persian cucumbers and nontraditional sandwich bread, but it was so good.\u00a0 It also comes in a whole wheat version.\u00a0 You can order a case and it lasts a while&#8230; but in my house it doesn&#8217;t last too long!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>RECIPE: Armenian Pilaf<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>INGREDIENTS:<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a01 cup of egg noodles<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a06 tablespoons of butter<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Dash of kosher salt<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a02 cups of Uncle Bens white rice.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a04 cups of chicken broth<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DIRECTIONS:<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0In a medium sauce pan Saut\u00e9 egg noodles in butter till brown.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Then add the chicken broth and rice&#8230; bring to a boil then turn to low heat and cook until \u00a0 \u00a0 rice is fluffy approx. 25 minutes. \u00a0Keep a close watch. \u00a0When you lower the heat keep \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 pan covered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most American dinner tables accompany a meal with a starch&#8230; usually potatoes of some kind.\u00a0 The staple side dish in our home was pilaf.\u00a0 We had pilaf with our &#8220;lamb burgers&#8221; not fries!\u00a0 It is quick, easy and delicious.\u00a0 I always have these ingredients in my pantry for a side dish.\u00a0 The bread is an &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/feastandflowers.com\/?p=712\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","category-side-dishes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feastandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feastandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feastandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feastandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feastandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/feastandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/feastandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feastandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feastandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feastandflowers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}