Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, gamopilafo (wedding pilaf). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Gamopilafo (wedding pilaf) This is a recipe by my mother-in-law. And we don't wait for weddings to make it. Add the whole chicken to another pot.

Gamopilafo (wedding pilaf) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Gamopilafo (wedding pilaf) is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook gamopilafo (wedding pilaf) using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Gamopilafo (wedding pilaf):

1. Make ready lamb meat
2. Prepare 1,5 kg chicken (1 chicken)
3. Make ready long grain white rice
4. Get stakovoutiro (traditional Cretan butter from goat's milk)
5. Make ready allspice
6. Take lemon juice
7. Take salt, pepper in grains

Signature dishes are kalitsounia (sweet cheese pastries), savoury cheese pies, egg-lemon lamb with artichoke hearts, fried snails and the famous gamopilafo (wedding pilaf). Wedding rice is called gamopilafo (gamos is wedding, pilafi is pilaf). Older Greek cooks still make a fuss when making rice pilafs for a traditional Sunday family meal, pressing it into molds and presenting it with fanfare. Prepare whole chicken by washing it under running water tap.

Steps to make Gamopilafo (wedding pilaf):

1. Wash the meats thoroughly and boil them together over low heat for about 2 hours, adding a tbsp of salt to the water as well as the pepper.
2. When they are done, remove the pieces of meat, strain the stock and season them with salt and pepper.
3. Measure the stock, for every 3 cups of stock you need 1 cup of rice. Boil the strained stock once more and add the rice, over medium heat, stirring so that it doesn't stick until it absorbs all the juice (about 15-20 minutes). Add 1/4 cup of lemon juice to the rice just before it is completely done.
4. Brown the stakovoutiro in a small pot, remove the pot from heat and pour it over the rice setting it aside for 5 minutes covered with a towel.
5. The meat and rice are served seperately.

Fill a stockpot with water and add the chicken to the stockpot. Traditional foods like gamopilafo (literally translated: wedding pilaf or rice) are served at the reception alongside the roasted meats and other favorite dishes. Traditional wedding cakes were often simpler than today's dramatic confections, but no less scrumptious. In Crete, Gamopílafo ("wedding pilaf") is a prized pilaf served at weddings and sometimes other major celebrations but that pilaf is creamier and not fluffy, like risotto. In Greece, rice was considered a luxury food in the older days.

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