Right. Right, listen. Here's what you're gonna do, okay? First of all you're gonna gather your party to venture forth. Your party includes:
80ml olive oil (do NOT scrimp on the Oil!) 200gr basmati or long grain rice 300gr some kind of minced meat, chicken beef pork you can even mix and match it's fine 400gr butternut squash cubes (I GUESS they can be Other Squash Cubes? I do not know for a Fact) 1 big (BIG) onion, finely chopped 0.5 to 1 cinnamon stick depending on how sweet you like things 0.5 teaspoon cumin seeds 1 kefir lime leaf 1 teaspoon saffron (ideally; but turmeric is Fine Too) Large handful coriander (or parsley if you gotta), finely chopped 420ml boiled water
You got your party down? Cool cool. Now you're gonna take a pot and heat up that oil over a medium-high heat and throw the cumin seeds in for like 30 seconds to get Fragrant. Then add the onion and transparentify it. Onion transparentifying in olive oil is the most beautiful sight in the world your soul is already ascending. Throw the squash cubes in and give them five minutes. Next you clear a space in the middle of the pot maybe glug in another spoonful of oil and toss in the meat and mix it good good good with some salt+pepper break it up crumble it push it around until it's starting to brown. Then you're gonna throw in the cinnamon and the kefir lime leaf and the saffron and the coriander and take a BIG inhale of the aroma ooooh it's so good then you can add the rice. Mix again for 2-3 minutes do it with love. Pour in the water bring to a boil cover the pot and put on a small fire for exactly 22 minutes. Survive 22 minutes smelling that smell I can't help you with that part. Then you're gonna turn the flame off but DO NOT OPEN THE POT DON'T DO IT you're gonna wait another ten minutes. Then you can open the pot, and you can shovel that stuff in your mouth like a joyful wild animal.
