Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, kushari. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Koshari (also spelled, Kushari) is the national dish of my birthplace, Egypt. By far one of my favorite things to eat-EVER! No matter how far I've traveled, I will always crave a humble bowl of koshari as served in the streets of Egypt.
Kushari is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Kushari is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook kushari using 6 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Kushari:
- Take 1 cup chickpeas, soak in water over night
- Get 5 onions Julian's onions,
- Get 500 g pasta, half spaghetti & half small pasta
- Get 3 cups long grain rice,wash and soak for 30 minutes
- Take 1 cup lentils (green lentils)
- Get 1 cup vermicelli
Although it's located on the African continent, Egypt is culturally closer to the Middle Eastern countries, so many times, you will find it listed along side of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the others. Today, we're sharing Kushari, a meal that some would call Egypt's national dish. Kushari is a delicious Egyptian vegetarian recipe consisting of green lentils, macaroni and rice mixed together with caramelised onions. It is served with a tomato-based sauce, finished with a.
Instructions to make Kushari:
- In a sauce pan cook chekpeas, with 2 minced garlic cloves, 1 grated tomato, 1 tsp Cummin, & ½ tsp salt.(keep the sauce of cooked chickpeas will be used later)
- Coat the onions with 2 tbsp flour, 1 tbsp corn starch, ½ tsp black pepper, deep fry untill golden brown and crispy, leave aside. (Keep the fried onion oil will be used later)
- Cook pasta untill identy, wash with water and drain, toss the pasta with 1 tbsp from the fried onion oil
- Preparing tomato sauce: ½kg ripe tomatoes blended to gain tomato juice ; 4 minced garlic cloves, 1 red hot chili or red bell pepper (as desired), 1 tbsp tomato paste, 1 tsp sugar,
- In a hot sauce pan take 2 tbsp of fried onion oil, sautee garlic untill fragrant,add chili or bell pepper, & tomato paste, stir alittle then add the tomato juice & sugar, stir untill well combined, bring into a boil, leave on heat 5 minutes, then take off the heat.
- Al-daqqa (special kushari sauce): 1 cup from chickpeas boiling water, 4 minced garlic cloves, ¼ cup white vinegar, lemon juice (as desired), 1 tsp chili paste or bell pepper paste, ½ tsp Cummin, ½ tsp salt, in a sauce pan add all the mentioned ingredients, bring to a boil then take off heat.
- Rice preparation : in a cooking pan add, 3 tbsp onion fried oil, little portion from perviously fried onion, and vermicelli, toss together untill golden brown, add lintels and rice toss then add Cummin, salt & a pinch of peppers toss all together then add water (as rice pack directions), in my recipe I added water untill rice is soaked (cover the rice)
- Cover the cooking pot leave at low heat untill done.
- Serving : when you want to serve, take a desired plate, pour pasta, lintels and rice, chickpeas, tomato sauce, crispy onion than daqqa, and enjoy your special dish
- As for serving you can serve the way you desire
Kushari is a simple yet healthful dish of pasta, rice and lentils widely sold in small Egyptian restaurants and roadside stands. With its full complement of protein, a spicy topping of tomato sauce and crispy fried onions, kushari is often considered the Egyptian national dish. Kushari was originally a poor man's dish, but nowadays it is enjoyed by all strata of society. Koshari (also spelled Koshary or Kushari) is the national dish of Egypt. It's served in virtually every Egyptian restaurant, in every Egyptian home, and on every Egyptian street corner.
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