The Egyptian Koshari
The Egyptian Koshari

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, the egyptian koshari. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

The Egyptian Koshari is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. The Egyptian Koshari is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

Koshari is a traditional Egyptian staple, mixing chick peas, pasta, fried onions, and zesty tomato sauce, served on top a bed of rice and brown lentils! Flavor packed and not to mention healthy! The full name can be explained by the presence, in the recipe, of black lentils, also called ads abu gibba.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have the egyptian koshari using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make The Egyptian Koshari:
  1. Take 1 cup brown lentils, rinsed
  2. Prepare 1 cup macaroni, elbow or small shells
  3. Make ready 1 cup white rice, soaked in water for one hour
  4. Prepare vegetable oil
  5. Get Tomato Sauce
  6. Get 1 large onions, finely chopped
  7. Prepare 5 cloves garlic, chopped
  8. Prepare 1 1/2 cup tomato juice
  9. Make ready 1 tablespoon tomato sauce
  10. Get 4 tablespoons vinegar
  11. Prepare allspice according to taste
  12. Get salt to taste
  13. Make ready black pepper to taste
  14. Prepare For the takleya:
  15. Prepare 2 large onions, peeled and cut into thin slices
  16. Prepare 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  17. Get black pepper to taste

It's served in virtually every Egyptian restaurant, in every Egyptian home, and on every Egyptian street corner. Street vendors serve the dish from carts to people eagerly waiting in line to eat this beloved and highly popular dish. Koshary, koshari or kushari is one of the traditional Egyptian food. This dish is considered the national dish of Egypt and a very popular street food.

Instructions to make The Egyptian Koshari:
  1. Place lentils in a large saucepan and cover it with water, add 1 teaspoon of salt. Cook until they are very tender then remove from heat and drain. Keep the lentils’ water, we will use it later on for the rice.
  2. Heat the oil in a pan and mix in onions and all-spice. Stir until the onions start changing color then add the rice and cook for another 3 minutes.
  3. Add in the lentils. Mix gently with the rice for few minutes. Then pour the lentils’ water.
  4. Cover the pan, and simmer over low heat with lid on until rice and lentils are cooked.
  5. Meanwhile, cook the macaroni according to box directions. Drain and keep aside warm.
  6. To make the tomato sauce: heat vegetable oil in a large skillet, stir in the garlic and cook until they become transparent. Then add in the tomato juice, tomato sauce, vinegar and salt. Cook over medium heat until the mixture starts boiling. Remove from heat and keep warm.
  7. For the takileya, heat the oil in another skillet and fry the onions until they become soft and golden. Flavor with black pepper. Remove and drain on paper towels.
  8. To serve: put the rice and lentils in a deep serving dish, spread the macaroni on top, pour the tomato sauce all over. Garnish with the takelaya.
  9. Serve warm.

Egyptian koshari recipe is one of the easy Egyptian recipes. My husband is Egyptian so I decided to attempt this easy dish. It takes a lot of TIME to cook but it's really easy. Koshari is one of the most common Egyptian Foods and kind of like a national dish, like Egyptian Falafel (Tameya). The history of Koshari This cheap, filling and healthy national dish is so popular that some restaurants in Eygpt, particularly Cairo, specialize in this alone.

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