How to cook Fiji style Pulao
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ธ.ค. 2020
- My dad teaches me how to cook a Fiji style Pulao. It’s a great one pot meal that’s great for feeding the masses with ease. As a camp cook up or easy to do home cooked meal. This delicious meal is sure to get you on the good side of the crowd. Enjoy!!
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Your Dad still has the Fiji sound in his voice...best of luck
Haha yes. You can take him out of Fiji but can’t get the Fiji out of him.
Thanks for watching.
Love from your Indo Trinidadian cousins in Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹 Caribbean
Thanks for the love.
Awesome vid. Im fiji indian too. It hit home when your dad said, this will go well after 2 bowls of kava.
Haha. Yeah that’s always how it goes with dad. Thanks for commenting.
Kava - what is it?
Is it hard to make?
Can I just order the natural ingredient? 🙃 thanks!
@@Brandi.Nicole Basically its pacific island brew fairly similar to alcohol
Ooooohhh bro this is my fav! Can’t wait to give it a go. Nothing beats Fiji style Pulao. Cheers to Uncle & his grog lol heaps of love from Melbourne 🤙🏾
Too easy bro. Thanks for commenting. Let me know how it turns out.
Been watching my parents make Palau for years. First time I’ve seen the masala being mixed into the garlic before putting it in the dish. I’m going to try thattt
It’s amazing how everyone has such different ways they do things. But it turns out great. We do that for all our curries too.
I'm from Fiji. I loved your homestyle video, edam julum pulao. Good eats. 👍
Bula!! Thanks for your kind comment.
This is one of my favourite dishes. Thank you so much from Canada.
Yes mine too. Thanks for watching.
thank you dad you’re the best
Dads are great. Thanks for watching
Oh that's how it's done..!! So cool...will try it..
Please do let us know how it went.
I got to visit Fiji some time ago. Stayed at a small resort and met some terrific Fijian people from the village next door. Enjoyed kava with some of the guys.
Good to hear mate. I was born there but haven’t been back in a very long time. I will take my kids there one day when the world returns to a bit of normality.
Looks delicious! I'm gonna try this soon 🍽
Thanks. Hope it works out for you. Come back and let us know how it went
Bula....you can take the man out of Fiji,but can't take the fijian out of him...like the background real fijian style..love it....GB
Vinaka!
It’s me and my mate watching this drooling, looks one yummiest 🤤🤤🤤
Thanks mate. Give it a go and let us know how it went.
2nd time making this today! So delicious!!!
Hey. That’s great.
Very nice and thank you uncle for teaching. We from Fiji
Thanks for watching. We are traveling around Australia currently but when we get back home I’m going to get my parents to flim a heap of Fiji style cooking so they can teach us all.
Amazing as usual our kids comes first. Vinaka!!!!
Yes indeed. Thanks for watching.
One of my favorite dishes! I will surely have this when I go back to Fiji for a visit 🙌🏾🇫🇯
Thanks for watching.
Wow that looks super yummy. I can't wait to try cooking that dish. I'm going to try cooking in for my channel. Thank you so much for sharing your dad's recipe🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thanks Milz. I’ve subbed to your channel and look forward to your take on it.
@@AdventuringPals thank you brother. Much appreciated 🙏🏻🙏🏻 I love Fijian food and the spices thanks again and take care to you and family🙏🏻🙏🏻
Awesome video man. Your dad is the man. I've just never seen anyone put spring onion in pulao!
Thanks heaps man. Yeah his got his own style lol.
This is excellent menu for catering for large groups and wiil be good for travellers
I just need to get mine to somewhere near my dads and I’ll be happy as lol.
Nice setup...if I had that I'd be cookin' outside all the time too.
Thanks mate. Yes it’s a beaut of a setup. Works a treat.
Thanks for sharing Bro,Nice Menu, I'm gonna try and cook it at Home, thanks to you and your Dad for Sharing,God Bless 👍🇬🇧🤝🇫🇯
Too easy bro. Let me know how it turns out. Hopefully we will have a lot more cook ups this year on the channel.
The good old 'Bombay Pot' - world famous in Fiji.
Food looks absolutely yummy.
Thank you for the video.
Thanks.
Bula! Good looking pulao, lamb pulao’s my favorite.
Bula. Yes mine too. Thanks for watching.
Oh too beautiful back to the basics of our ancestors how so many peoples l amazing it’s still part of the everyday life from the roots of india lovely
Thanks.
I will definitely try your recipe. This is the best pulao recipe I have seen. Thankyou.
Thanks. Hope it turns out well.
Wow,👌🌺
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Cool enjoyed this I will try
Thanks. Would love to know how it turned out.
Mouth watering alright !!
It goes good!! Thanks fir watching.
Look delicious yummy yummy 😋😍😜.
Thanks. It was yummy indeed.
Thanks for the video! I usually cook it in the longer separate style but I’ll try this one pot style next time! Vinaka!
Too easy. Give it a go and let us know what you think.
Mate!!!!! Thaaaaaaanks so much for documenting this. Fellow Fijian Indian here who's lost all fam recipes!!
No worries at all. Stay tuned for many more recipes from back home coming up.
looks yummy!
Thanks. It’s always good when my dad cooks.
MashaAllah TabarakkahAllah
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good job ... nice!
Thanks mate.
Your bapuji has Indian accent from Bihar India....
Jai Hind 🇮🇳🙏..
Good recipe ji
Aap log hamesha kushi raho
Not too sure but I suspect that our ancestors were from Bihar but even my grand parents were born in Fiji, so its pretty amazing that the accent can still be identified to anywhere.
Thanks for commenting. much apricated
Thanks for sharing recipe. Always have been a big fan of Fijian style puloa coz it's moist and very flavourful. Will try to make it one day. Usually just go to my Fijian friend's place and stuff my face.
God bless you All
Cheers mate. Isn’t that what mates are for lol.
If you make it. Let us know how it turned out.
Very nice 👍🏼 thank you 🙏🏽
Too easy. Thanks for watching.
Mmmm. I look forward to meeting you one day so you can make this for me. Will taste better coming from a Fijian.
Look forward to that too mate.
Sir, great recipe.
Thank you. Appreciate it.
Yumbos,I take it you've made it back home.Good to meet your dad,our family always had massive veggie gardens and a full kitchen set up outside at one stage it included three bbqs as well as large gas burners .All part of my much treasured memories of my mum and dad.Have I got a great storey of my run in with Fijian carva ,one not to be shared over the web , just have to wait to we meet for that one.😂😂😂merry Xmas stay strong ,treasure the farno and get the clips coming 😍🍀👍🇦🇺🍺P.s hope all your rellies are safe back in Fiji ! Just been smashed by cat five ,I've been though a couple of fours and its wasn't a good time.🌏⛈🌊
Thanks Graham. Yes we made it back home to QLD all safely.
Gotta love a backyard garden and kitchen. Looking forward to hearing your kava story mate lol. Merry Christmas to you and your family mate. Hope you have a great new year too.
Looks yummy
It was. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Very tasty 😋 Palau
Thanks.
Behaal Palau, looks tasty
Thanks. It was.
Vinaka to your father reminds me of my mum's Fijian meals
Thanks. I hope to get him to show us plenty more recipes from Fiji. Have a great Christmas.
Vinaka… great video boso!..
Vinaka!!
Nice one.. looks yummy.. hope your dad and you enjoyed the pulao after some sweet Maharaj kava!!
Thanks. Yes dad drank kava, I’ll stick to beer lol. The whole family came together to eat. I was too busy to get it on camera lol.
Good father 👨
He is pretty great. Thanks for watching.
Awesome. I could do with a plate right now. Isa, Fiji style is the best ha.
Yes it least now you can make it yourself lol. Thanks for watching.
I love ❤ 😍 💖 palao....I will try and make it at home with your recipe 😋 😉 😀...thanks so much for sharing this...God bless you and your family from Fiji 🇫🇯 Island,,,,,Suva City...Narere,Nasinu.
Thanks. Hope it turns out good.
Very nice.
Thanks.
While everyone is crazy about biryani im the one who loves fiji pulou tastes even better when made without basmati rice but regular short grain or jasmin perfect love this recipe so simple
Thanks. Yes I prefer Pulao over Biryani
Great video Brother man the Pulao looks so good i wish i could come thru the computer screen and eat it. I kid you not your dad looks like one of my Uncle. Anyway saying Hello from California.
Thanks. You never know we may be related in some way haha.
So yummy
Thanks.
I'll sub bro. Keep em coming.
Thanks heaps bro.
Yummy Mate 👍
Thanks. 🙏
Nice, you have to learn your Dads recipe 😉
Yes indeed. So many good recipes to learn and share.
love your work gyuys. haha kava first before getting stuck in the palau. Palau looks tasty.
Haha. Kava first before any work right?? Thanks.
@@AdventuringPals Fiji style bro. Mix kava first
Bula that's looks nice and Delicious 😋
Hopefully Kava comes after
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Thanks. Kava always first for the old fellas.
@@AdventuringPals 😂😂😂
Daddy looks like brother
Haha. Yes. Looks even younger than me. Thanks for watching.
Wheres my share!! Haha looks amazing!
Come get some lol.
Looks so yummy. I have to cook this. But first need that masala.
Thanks. If you cook it, let us k is how it went.
Made it and everyone loved it. Thank you.🙏
@@ayeshachaus2275 that’s so great to hear. Thanks.
👏🏽🌶🌶🌶 he’s right ! You can’t have it without a bowl of kava first 😂….. have to ..even if you’re anywhere around the world !!! It’s a Fijian style thang 😜 👊🏽
Haha yeah that’s the old school Fijian way. Nothing happens without a bowl or two of kava. Thanks for watching mate.
Lovely bro...goin to try ur dads receipy ...whats missing in the vid is fiji gold beer bro hahahaa
Haha yeah that would have made it better aye. Thanks for watching bro. Hope you enjoy it when you cook it up. Let us know how it turns out.
Lovely video! Learnt a new trick of two. Where did you guys manage to get a chakhi and sil Lodha (the stone and flat stone grinding thing) I would love to get my hands on both things !!
We got the Chakhi of a family friend and the sil Lodha we collected our selves from nature.
So beautiful nice love Indian foods so spicy and tasty God bless
Thanks for watching.
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Making me hungry
Get into it haha. Thanks.
I love this just a question when did you put the salt in? Wanna give it a try
Hi. Thanks and put the salt in while the meat is cooking and again when the rice goes in. Sorry we weren’t too clear on instructions, very amateur at cooking videos lol.
Omg I'm hungry LOL. Looks delicious I can smell it. My parents are from Fiji and I'm born and raised in Canada. My dad taught me how to make this when I was younger. I think I'll make it tonight! One question, does your dad know how to make the actual Palau masala?
Hi. How did your Pulao turn out?
I think he used to grind and mix his own back in Fiji, but now he just gets the store bought pre made stuff.
@@AdventuringPals turned out great ! I ended up grinding my own turned out really well. I found a recipe online but adjusted it to my own liking. Tasted even better today 😜
@@farzanafiroz1958 wow that’s so great. Go you!!
très bon appétit à vous
Merci.
HI THERE !LOOKS YUMMY !JUST WONDERING IF THE LAMB WAS PRE BOILED ?UNCLE JI SOUNDS LIKE A PRO ,THANK YOU FOR DEMONSTRATING A QUICK AND EASY VERSION OF FIJI STYLE PALAU.BULA VINAKA!
Hi. Thanks. The lamb was not pre cooked. It was just washed.
@@AdventuringPals GUESS THE SAME METHOD WOULD WORK FOR CHICKEN.AWESOME THANKS !
@@luckykiwi811 yup. Should do. No worries.
More cooking videos from your dad bro
Yes. I need to do this. Thanks.
3rd like.... a new friend here stay connected to grow together
Thanks. Sounds good.
G'day Elvin and Esh, just came across your vlog during the big wet we're all having now along the Aus east coast. And a spicy Fiji Pulao would definitely go down well right now ! Although no offence to your Dads, but I prefer the Fiji Muslim weddings style Pulao, sticky with a lot of ghee. I use the Syd brand 'Pacific Premium' pulao mix when I cook at home, but could never get it the same as the wedding ones. Pulao has almost become a staple dish here whenever there's a dinner gathering of whatever Fijian ethnicity. Also the 'Pacific Premium' brand of curry powders etc have become very popular even amongst the sub-continental Indians and the diaspora. There's also a Sri Lankan spices shop that provides a service of grinding up your own dried spices with a Chakhi while you wait. Kava also definitely goes well with Pulao. Although I'm yet to come across a subcontinental Indian or from the diaspora that enjoys Kava at a Fijian dinner party, I'm sure there's some out there.
Now for the real reason for my commenting, I'm green with envy of your caravanning around Aus. The Mrs and i had plans to sell up and do the Van life around Aus as well but the fkn Pandemic disrupted it all. Anyway, still on the cards as we've been avid campers, multi-day bushwalkers/hikers as well. But we've mostly done NSW & Vic. It's great that you guys did it b4 the Pandemic. Jaiden and Jordan would have had the experience of a lifetime. Good on you guys for taking that leap of faith to do it, I'm sure you guys had your fair share of naysayers. It'll be something that they'll be telling their grandkids about.
I would definitely be referring to your vlogs for places of interest etc when I actually get going. . .
All the very best to you guys and the family and a massive Vinaka Vaka Levu for all the great vlogs. 👍🏾
Thanks mate. Much appreciate the comment. Hope you guys are safe where you are. I’ve never had a Muslim Palau, not that I can remember anyway, but I’m keen to try if I ever get a chance.
It’s so good that we have such a great range of food and spice choices from all over the world. Much different to when we first moved over here.
As for the van life, I hope you can make it happen. It’s the best thing we have done with our family so far in life. No regress at all except maybe we should keep going lol.
Nice
Thanks.
I like his authentic Pure Fiji Style 😢😢😢😢
Thanks you.
Hek yeh love a mad Fijian curry
What’s not to love aye. Thanks for watching and for commenting mate. Much appreciated.
Your aussie accent sounds more aussie than an australian accent. Cheers for the video
Haha thanks mate. I came to Australia when I was 10 so pretty much grew up here.
My notes for later ☺️
Cook veggies
Make Garlic paste
Mix masala (cumin and allspice ? Or just buy it premade lol!) & garlic / ginger paste
Dump in with the veggies
Add fresh peppers
Add meat
Cook
Add rice and gee, salt (my secret flavor Ancho Chile dry mix)
Cook
Garnish with fresh organic green onions
Good stuff👍
Yummy. Didn’t see him add salt to the Pulau. When does salt go in, while cooking meat or when rice goes in. Lovely video btw 😊
Hi. Thanks for watching. Usually in with the meat and adjusted to taste towards the end.
What temperature should i cook it on
Nice I would like to see how u cook chicken curry
Ok. I’ll keep it mind and maybe put the camera on next time I cook it. Thanks.
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Thanks for watching.
Amazing 😊😊 any idea where I can buy those silver cooking spoons from 😀
Thanks. They sell them here in some Asian shops in Brisbane.
@@AdventuringPals thank you 🙏🏽 been cooking for them all over but no luck.
@@Jessina_S oh no. Well I hope you find some soon. What city are you in?
@@AdventuringPals I’m located south east Brisbane. Logan Village 😊
My dad has the exact same tattoo as your dad on his hand. Wonder if it’s symbolic in Fiji?
Not sure but I’ve noticed it’s pretty common.
Looks so yummy. Would you do Pillav made during Muslim wedding. It was mouth watering. thanks. I am originally from Ba FIji.
Thanks. Sorry I’m just learning these from my father. I shall ask him lol.
My family is from near Nausori.
Ah Nausori! We attended many weddings of Muslim neighbours (we all lived in harmony!! your father may know how they made pullav. I remember the many species etc was not visible and yet it was best we have ever tasted.
Where can we get halal or vegetarian food from in Ba. I’m a Muslim and coming to visit Ba soon.
I’m from Samoa and married to a Fijian Muslim. Living in NZ and I really do love learning how to cook each and every Indian food at Fiji style. But I have one question please. Did your dad add any yellow curry powder into it or not please? Because I am going to try his recipe for sure 😊 Did he use only masala or both masala and the yellow curry powder please? If you don’t mind 😊
Hi. Sorry for the delayed reply. He used pre made Pulao masala. I’m not sure if it has the yellow curry powder mixed in already as different suppliers have their own mixes. But he didn’t add any additional yellow masala to it himself.
I hope this helps. Good luck trying it out. Please let us know how it turned out.
Great Video!, fyi the masala from the video didn't have any yellow masala(which is masala minus turmeric powder). Good thing is besides the look of the dish there is not much difference in taste. Good luck!
@@bobbyhill6250 thanks for clearing that up. Much appreciated.
Option brother
What else did he mix with masala please?
I’ve just replied to your other post with this answer. Thanks.
What I love the most is our Fijian indo brother. They cook for the family and they help our bhaini in the kitchen. But, our our stupid indigenous just drink cava and to much vucesa. That's why our mom always struggle because of some stupid Fijian man
I live by the happy wife, happy life motto. Thanks for watching.
I am from India.... Chakki machin use in my village
That’s great to hear that it still has a place in this modern world. Hope you’re safe in India.
Vinaka uncle
Bula from Fiji...
BULA. thanks for watching.
Bro where you base
This video was from Brisbane but we are traveling around Australia.
Oi ok ur old man do any takeaway in brissy
@@watlalalallala5524 no he doesn’t sorry. Just cooks for our family when we are lucky. Haha
Oi ok set bro, hey take care on your trip ....God bless
@@watlalalallala5524 thanks bro.
Why do you have kitchen outside your homes in Fiji?
Because we use wood fire stoves a lot and it also prevents from smelling out the house. But this is in Australia and we like cooking outside when the weather is good.
@@AdventuringPals This pretty house you have shown is in which part of Australia? But if one cooks outside then the dust and dirt can pollute stoves, surfaces and food.
@@Rosemoon938 it’s in southeast Queensland near Brisbane. We usually cover up the stove when not in use and clean it regularly. And at the end of the day a bit or dust can’t do too much damage. We spend most of our time in the outdoors anyway.
@@Rosemoon938 where do you live?
@@AdventuringPals In India
Bro you forget 2 mention your meat is pre cooked..
Hey mate. The meat is not precooked. It has just been washed.
More like a khicidi then a Palau. Must be lambasia style?
Not sure sorry. Never been to Labasa.
@@AdventuringPals looks delicious. Great job.
@@SailorRa1 thanks mate. It was great.
Chapo khali
2kg meat=how many kg rice??!🤔
Hi mate. Thanks for asking the question. We usually put in equal parts meat and rice measured out of a bowl. So for 4 cups of meat we put in 4 cups of rice. You can add more rice to feed more people if needed. Hope this helps.
Good try bro
Thanks man. And thanks for watching.