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Mujadara is a classic Arabic recipe featuring cooked lentils and rice, caramelized onions, herbs and yogurt. It's a delicious vegetarian main dish! This version calls for brown rice instead of white (if you want to use white, see recipe notes).
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have moujadara - brown lentils and rice with fried onions using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Moujadara - brown lentils and rice with fried onions:
- Get With the same glass
- Take 1 glass brown lentils
- Take 1 glass basmati rice
- Prepare 2 small onions finely chopped
- Make ready 1 teaspoon cumin
- Take Olive oil
- Take Salt
- Take Water
- Prepare For the topping
- Take 2 large sliced onions
- Prepare Flour
- Get Salt
- Make ready Pinch cumin
This simple dish will surprise your taste buds in the best way possible. Add rice, cumin and cinnamon to the lentils. Stir well so everything is completely combined. Mix the lentils and rice with caramelized onion and serve with plain yogurt and salad.
Instructions to make Moujadara - brown lentils and rice with fried onions:
- After washing the lentils very well, put them in a pot, cover with water and boil them for 15 minutes.
- While cooking the lentils, start frying the finely chopped onion in olive oil
- After 15 minutes when the lentils are 80% cooked strain them then put them in the pot again, the rice, the salt, the cumin, and the fried onions. Mix once or twice to combine all the ingredients then cover with water, put the lid on and cook on a low to medium heat for around 15 minutes (until the water evaporates)
- In the meantime, put olive oil in a frying pan with the onion slices and sprinkle some flour mixed with cumin and a bit of salt and fry until golden brown. Then put the onions on a plate and use some kitchen roll to soak up the oil and make the onions crispy
- Check the rice and lentils, if they’ve absorbed all the water it means they’re cooked (make sure you don’t burn them though). Remove the lid and leave for 5 minutes before serving
- Serve with crispy onions on top and enjoy your meal ❤️
- Could be served with yogurt on the side.
Wipe the saucepan in which you fried the onion clean and put in the cumin and coriander seeds. Place over medium heat and toast the seeds for a minute or two. Stir to coat the rice with the oil and then add the cooked lentils and the water. Add the rice, lentils, and a big pinch of salt, and return to a boil. Cover and reduce the heat to a simmer.
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