^Perry: "A Middle-Eastern method of cooking rice so that every grain remains separate. ...However, there is no evidence that rice was cooked by this technique in India before the Muslim invasions, and Indians themselves associate pilaf-making with Muslim cities such as Hyderabad, Lucknow, and Delhi. .... The first descriptions of the pilaf technique appear in the 13th-century Arabic books Kitab al-Tabikh and Kitab al-Witsla ila al Habib, written in Baghdad and Syria, respectively. They show the technique in its entirety, including the cloth beneath the lid, and describe still-current flavourings such as meat, pulses, and fruit.[2]
Perry, Charles, Pilaf, Jaine, Tom (编), The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson, 3rd Edition, Oxford University Press: 624–625, 2014 [2020-04-22], ISBN 978-0-19-967733-7, (原始内容存档于2020-11-16)