How to Use pilaf in a Sentence

pilaf

noun

• Spoon the sauce over fish and serve with rice pilaf or potatoes.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 18 Mar. 2018
• Pair with duck a l’orange or a lentil and red pepper pilaf.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• Pair with roasted duck breast or a beef and cous-cous pilaf.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• Fried fish, salmon and rice pilaf, sides, homemade soup and desserts.
  — Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2018
• This last one is for leek dumplings—made from a family recipe—and lamb pilaf, around $25 for the till.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2020
• Serve chicken with green beans, wild rice pilaf and sauce.
  — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 21 Oct. 2016
• Chop and stir into this rice pilaf, and serve as a side with dinner.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
• Remove from the heat; keep covered and let the pilaf sit for 5 minutes.
  — Joe Yonan, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
• Serve with a side of pasta or rice pilaf to round out your easy weeknight meal.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2020
• Serve the fish with a rice pilaf and your favorite tomato salsa.
  — Wolfgang Puck, chicagotribune.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• Serve with brown rice pilaf, green beans, a spinach salad and sourdough rolls.
  — Susan Nicholson, ajc, 16 Feb. 2018
• Serve it with a grain or rice pilaf, crusty bread or over polenta.
  — Christopher Kimball, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Feb. 2022
• Serving Lake Erie perch with fresh-cut fries, slaw, rice pilaf, roll and butter.
  — cleveland, 6 Mar. 2020
• Baked Atlantic Ocean cod with rice pilaf, slaw and tartar sauce.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 2 Apr. 2021
• Lamb anchors a messy plov (rice pilaf) alongside a whole bulb of garlic.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2016
• Bowls of lentil rice pilaf and za’atar chicken, fattoush salad, and more.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2019
• Back then, Jimmy’s on the Mall was the fanciest game in town, serving steak tips and rice pilaf for a fair price and a side salad to boot.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2021
• The school cafeteria served 260 chicken Kiev and rice pilaf meals.
  — Denys Bucksten, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• But what about that tragic rice pilaf with the nuts and Craisins that Aunt Jan keeps bringing ’round simply because no one’s had the heart to stop her?
  — Hilary Cadigan, Bon Appétit, 16 Nov. 2019
• This rice dish is based on one of the most famous Persian polos (pilaf), known as sabzi polo.
  — Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit, 5 Feb. 2018
• This simple pilaf is an excellent base for a grain bowl.
  — Kari Sonde, Washington Post, 24 June 2019
• This goes great with coleslaw and baked potatoes or with rice pilaf and simply cooked vegetables.
  — Julia Turshen, Twin Cities, 4 July 2019
• There's a biryani - a rice pilaf-style dish - that tasted a little like Cincinnati chili, with hints of cumin and cinnamon.
  — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• Put 2 1/4 cups water, the lentil pilaf and curry powder in skillet.
  — Nancy Dell'aria, Woman's Day, 2 Jan. 2012
• She takes heart from pilaf, from Piaf, from a rosy perspective.
  — Leah Eskin, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• The Western-style dish, similar to pilaf, has a good combination of the sour taste of tomatoes, the rich taste of chicken and the sweetness of onions.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2017
• Unlike a pilaf, biryani is the main event, with maybe a cooling raita or crunchy kachumber served alongside.
  — Bon Appétit, 23 Oct. 2019
• The menu includes matzo ball soup, red wine and port braised brisket, tri-colored carrot tzimmes, and quinoa pilaf with red beets and kale.
  — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• The accompanying pilaf of farro and spinach could have used a spark.
  — Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2019
• At the end of our first post-vaccine dinner party, the tablecloth was stained, the candles were burned down to nubs, and the dog was licking up bits of rice pilaf that, at some point, fell to the floor.
  — Washington Post, 4 June 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024