Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lebanese mujadra (lentils, rice & caramelized onions). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Mujaddara is an easy and flavorful make-ahead meal, loaded with fabulous spices and topped with crispy fried caramelized onions! Mujadara is an arabic word that means "pockmarked." Basically it's made up of lentils, rice (or bulgur) and onions. And they say lentils cooked with the rice look like pockmarks (pimples).
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have lebanese mujadra (lentils, rice & caramelized onions) using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lebanese Mujadra (lentils, rice & caramelized onions):
- Prepare cooking the lentils
- Get 2 cup water
- Make ready 1 cup brown or green lentils, sorted and rinsed clean
- Prepare caramelized onions
- Make ready 2 large onions, sliced
- Take 1/2 cup Sunflower or canola oil
- Make ready 1 pinch salt
- Make ready cooking the finished dish
- Prepare 2 cup water
- Take 3/4 cup long grain rice
- Take 1/4 tsp ground cumin, optional
- Get 1 salt and pepper to taste
One of the spices that I used in this Lebanese Mujadara Recipe is cinnamon. While I don't think this spice in incorporated in the traditional version, I have seen a minority of recipes using it - and since cinnamon is one of my favorite spices, I didn't hesitate to add it in here. Lebanese Rice and Lentil Pilaf (Mujadara) - Vegan. This rice and lentil pilaf is an easy and wholesome recipe based on the traditional Lebanese Mujadara.
Instructions to make Lebanese Mujadra (lentils, rice & caramelized onions):
- Cook your rinsed lentils in the 2 cups of water in a small pot til partially done (about 10 minutes). Don't over cook, because they will finish cooking in the next step.
- In a large sauce pan, saute onions with a pinch of salt, in oil on medium high heat til browned really well.
- Pull out a few of the browned onions and drain on a paper towel. Save these as a garnish for your finished dish. Keep the remaining onions as well as the oil in the sauce pan.
- Add the 2 cups of water to the browned onions and oil, and simmer for 5 minutes gently. Water will become brown from the onions.
- To your water and onions in the large sausepan, add the rice, lentils, cumin, salt and pepper. (I have made this dish with and without the cumin. It tastes very good either way. Experiment to find your preferred version.) Over medium high heat bring to a boil, turn down the heat, cover and simmer on low-medium heat for 15 minutes or so, til water is absorbed.
- When your lentils and rice mixture is done, top with the crispy caramelized onions that you set aside, and enjoy!
Some added spices, raisins and nuts make it extra warm and cozy. Mujadara is a classic Arabic recipe featuring cooked lentils and rice, caramelized onions, herbs and yogurt. It's a delicious vegetarian main dish! This version calls for brown rice instead of white (if you want to use white, see recipe notes). Mujaddara is a simple comforting Lebanese lentil and rice pilaf tossed with loads of fried onions.
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