Mujadara
Mujadara

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A simple combination of lentils, rice, and deeply caramelized onions, mujadara is made across the Middle East. It's comforting but not too rich and it's fresh and vegetarian without relying on. Mujadara is a seriously inexpensive vegetarian meal that would make a statement at your next get-together.

Mujadara is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Mujadara is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mujadara using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mujadara:
  1. Prepare 1 cup brown rice
  2. Take 1 cup green Moong Dal
  3. Take 2 medium sized onions chopped finely
  4. Take 1/4 cup green onions chopped finely
  5. Take 1/4 cup coriander leaves chopped finely
  6. Prepare 1 tbsp black pepper powder
  7. Get 1/3 cup olive oil
  8. Take 2 bay leaves
  9. Get 4 garlic cloves whole
  10. Take As required Salt
  11. Make ready For Garnish:
  12. Get As required Yoghurt, mint leaves, pomegranate

Without meat, it was a medieval Arab dish commonly consumed by the poor, reputed to. In fact, in the Middle East, mujadara is known more as "poor man's food," or peasant food. While onions are cooking place lentils in saucepan and cover with water by an inch. Mujadara is an arabic word that means "pockmarked." Basically it's made up of lentils, rice (or bulgur) and onions.

Steps to make Mujadara:
  1. In a heavy bottomed pan add bay leaves, cloves and bring it to heat. Add 5 cups of water. Boil it.
  2. Add rice and cover. Cook on low flame for 10 mins. Keep stirring in between. Add Moong Dal and cover too. Add salt, black pepper powder. Keep cooking on low flame for 20 mins and stirring. All water will be absorbed. Set aside.
  3. In a pan heat olive oil and add chopped onions. On low flame fry the onions until caramelised. Will take 20 mins. If it doesn’t caramelise then set aside after 20 mins and add salt. Cool and it will caramelise.
  4. Remove the bay leaves from the rice and crush the garlic. Add 1/2 of green onions and coriander leaves to the rice and with a fork stir well.
  5. In a large bowl or plate spread the rice-Dal and add rest of the brown onions, green onions, coriander leaves. Garnish with pomegranate and enjoy with yoghurt.

And they say lentils cooked with the rice look like pockmarks (pimples). That's kind of a weird analogy for food. Mujadara, also known as mujaddara, , mujadarah, mejadra, and moujadara, is a lentil and rice dish of Levant origin. One of the first mujadara recipes included rice, lentils and meat and was found in Iraq. Mujaddara used to be served as a celebration dish but without meat it was considered a meal for poor people.

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