Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, moujadara - brown lentils and rice with fried onions. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Brown rice makes this mujadarra recipe extra hearty and flavorful. I also cooked my onions in extra-virgin olive oil instead of peanut oil, and it worked Mujadara is a classic Arabic recipe featuring cooked lentils and rice, caramelized onions, herbs and yogurt. Fried onions are mixed with rice and lentils, and topped with yogurt or sour cream.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook moujadara - brown lentils and rice with fried onions using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Moujadara - brown lentils and rice with fried onions:
- Take With the same glass
- Make ready 1 glass brown lentils
- Make ready 1 glass basmati rice
- Make ready 2 small onions finely chopped
- Take 1 teaspoon cumin
- Prepare Olive oil
- Prepare Salt
- Get Water
- Prepare For the topping
- Prepare 2 large sliced onions
- Make ready Flour
- Take Salt
- Get Pinch cumin
Mujadara is a simple Lebanese lentil and rice dish with crispy onions that's packed with flavor. This Mujadara recipe calls for a few ingredients and is Mujadara, also known as mujaddara, , mujadarah, mejadra, and moujadara, is a lentil and rice dish of Levant origin. One of the first mujadara recipes. Mediterranean recipe where you cook brown Lentils in water until they are tender then you add the rice to be cooked with it.
Steps 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.
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