Pilau is one of the most popular dishes in Kenyan homes. A feast without Pilau on the menu is a no no! Pilau is a coastal dish mostly served with Kachumbari. It can be cooked with beef, chicken, ...

Make the pilau: In a medium (3- or 4-quart) saucepan over medium-high heat, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil until shimmering. Add the onion and 1/4 teaspoon of the salt, and cook, stirring occasionally, ...

Award winning chef, author, restauranteur and opera singer Alexander Smalls stops by the TODAY kitchen to share two recipes from his latest cookbook, “The Contemporary African Kitchen: Home Cooking ...

Chicken Pilau is best cooked in cast iron pots over wood fires. The smell of the hardwood smoke mingles with that of the cooking food under giant oak trees in the very best of old-South traditions.

Hugh Acheson is the Canadian-born chef and restaurateur of Empire State South in Atlanta and Five & Ten in Athens, Georgia. He is a judge on the reality cooking competition series Top Chef and an Iron ...