Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, koshari. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Koshari is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Koshari is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Koshri is another one of those genius solutions to using up pantry staples. It is a cousin to the Middle Eastern Mujadara. In a nutshell, it is a comforting bowl of simple pantry staples: spiced lentils and rice, combined with chickpeas and small pasta.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have koshari using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Koshari:
- Get Rice & lentil pilaf (mjaddarah):
- Take 2 cups Egyptian rice, soaked in water for 30 minutes and strained
- Prepare 1 cup brown lentils
- Make ready 3 white onions, thinly wedges
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cumin powder
- Take 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- Take to taste salt
- Take Hot boiling water
- Get Tomato Sauce:
- Take 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- Make ready 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- Get 1 tsp cumin powder
- Take 1 cup tomato juice
- Get 1 tbsp tomato paste
- Get 1 cup chickpeas, boiled
- Prepare 1 cup elbow pasta (small sized), boiled salt & pepper to taste
- Make ready Daqqa (chili vinegar dressing )
- Get 1/4 cup hot water
- Prepare 2 Tbsp vinegar or Juice of 2 lemons
- Get 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- Take to taste salt
I like to think of this vegetarian dish as Egyptian-style chilli. I was first introduced to it during a trip to Egypt four years ago, where it was nearly all we ate for a week! It's served in "fast food" type restaurants, sold from carts by street vendors and made in the home. You other reviewers you can't have koshari without the pasta!!!
Steps to make Koshari:
- In a medium pot, place vegetable oil and fry wedged onions till golden and crisp. Set aside on a kitchen paper and save the frying oil aside.Place lentils in the same pot, add sufficient hot water to cover the lentils, boil till tender (you might need to add more water). Strain lentils if there was any excess water. Put them back in the pot.
- Add rice to the lentils and vegetable oil we used to fry the onions, mix all together. Add 2 ½ cups of boiling water, salt and cumin powder. Wait till the water evaporates, mix in half of the fried onions, lower down the heat and cover and leave it to cook for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, lets prepare the hot sauce: In a sauce pan, sauté garlic, add tomato juice, tomato paste, cumin and salt. Simmer for 10 minutes. Add chickpeas. Set aside.
- To prepare the "Daqqa" , mix all ingredients in an electric mixer. Set aside
- Now to assemble the dish, layer the components as follows: - 1) rice & lentils pilaf (mjaddarah) Elbow pasta, - 2) Tomato sauce, - 3) Crunchy Onions, - 4) Add a dash of “daqqa” if you like to add more spiciness to your dish.
I add vinegar and tomato paste to the red sauce to make it better. Koshari (كشري) also called kushari or kosheri, is one of the most popular dishes in the land of the Pharaohs, a delicious vegan combination prepared with chickpeas, lentils, macaroni and rice. Egyptian koshari is also called koshari abu gibba. The full name can be explained by the presence, in the recipe, of black lentils, also called ads abu gibba. Koshari is a cozy pile of warm carbs—traditionally, cooked rice, lentils, macaroni, and chickpeas, all mixed together—smothered in perky tomato sauce and buried in fried shallots.
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