Qabli pulao

Taken from here

Qabli Pulao: It is one of the most popular dishes of Afghanistan. It consists of steamed rice with chopped raisins and carrot. It often served with Beef Lamb or Chicken and  can be cooked in a variety of ways but this is the way I like it and I want share it with you.

Ingredients  

• 1kg of lamb
• Sea salt (to taste) 
• 1/8 cup pistachios
• 1/4 cup dark raisin
• 1 1/2 pints hot water
• 1 large onion (sliced) 
• 1 table spoon Gram masala
• 1 medium onion (thinly sliced)
• 1/4 cup blanched sliver almond
• 1/2 tablespoon ground cardamom
• 1/3 kg white or brown basmati rice
• 1 large carrot (cut into match sticks)\
• Fresh ground black pepper (to taste)
• 5-10 tablespoon cooking oil (its totally up to you)

Directions

1. Wash and soak the rice
2. Fry the onion and get it to a brownish color. When onion is browned,  add the meat and try mix it for at least 2 minutes. Add some salt and water and cook it till the meat is tender, remove meat and reserve stock.(discard cooked onions)
3. Boil a large amount of water with sea salt and cook the rice in it for 10 or more minutes. Set aside in a pot until ready to assemble.
4. Using the stock from the 2nd step, add some more salt if needed, black pepper, gram masala and create a stock sauce.
5. Combine cooked rice, stock sauce as needed and meat to gather and place it in a little oiled casserole dish. Cover it let it cook in a very low heat for 15min
6.  Fry carrot matchsticks in 1/2tbs oil and add the raisins at the very end, as well as the pistachios, almonds, a little sugar and cardamom.
7. By then the rice should be ready place the rice and meat in a dish and put the carrot and all other from step 6 on the top of it and its ready to serve.