Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, moujadara - brown lentils and rice with fried onions. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Clearly, lentils and rice do not make for a fancy meal. In fact, in the Middle East, mujadara is known more as "poor man's food," or peasant food. It's a delicious vegetarian main dish!
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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 it.
The ingredients needed to make Moujadara - brown lentils and rice with fried onions:
- Make ready With the same glass
- Prepare 1 glass brown lentils
- Take 1 glass basmati rice
- Prepare 2 small onions finely chopped
- Take 1 teaspoon cumin
- Take Olive oil
- Take Salt
- Prepare Water
- Prepare For the topping
- Get 2 large sliced onions
- Make ready Flour
- Make ready Salt
- Make ready Pinch cumin
While the lentils and rice are cooking together, fry the chopped onions until their golden brown and fry the sliced onions until they're crispy and caramelized. And when I'm in a hurry and just cooking for the kids, I leave out the caramelized onions toppings. Remove from heat, and set aside. Mujadara — a traditional Middle Eastern recipe made with long-grain rice, brown lentils, and caramelized onions — is typically served as a side dish.
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.
For this meatless version, we're serving up these smoky, cumin-scented lentils with a fried egg, spicy harissa , and toasted pine nuts, and calling it a meal perfect for any time of day. Meanwhile, the onions are fried until crisp and deeply caramelized—almost burnt, really—to coax out a savory bittersweet flavor. Serve hot, warm or at room temperature with a dollop of plain yogurt. Stir half of the fried onions into the mejadra mixture. Transfer to a serving plate and top with remaining fried onions.
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