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Stir the rice and par-cooked lentils into the onion mixture. Cover and bring back to a boil. Stir in a healthy pinch of salt and the black pepper.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook moujadara - brown lentils and rice with fried onions using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Moujadara - brown lentils and rice with fried onions:
- Make ready With the same glass
- Take 1 glass brown lentils
- Prepare 1 glass basmati rice
- Prepare 2 small onions finely chopped
- Get 1 teaspoon cumin
- Get Olive oil
- Get Salt
- Prepare Water
- Make ready For the topping
- Get 2 large sliced onions
- Take Flour
- Take Salt
- Prepare Pinch cumin
Slice the remaining onion into thin slices and sauté in the same pan with a tablespoon of oil on medium-low heat until deep golden brown and caramelized. Mujadara — a traditional Middle Eastern recipe made with long-grain rice, brown lentils, and caramelized onions — is typically served as a side dish. 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. Add the water, green lentils, and salt to the large pot.
Instructions 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.
Fried onions are mixed with rice and lentils, and topped with yogurt or sour cream. Vadalia onions which was good but I think next time an additional one to two onions would be worth a try. I used brown rice and cooked with the lentils with no problems. 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.
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