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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook lebanese mujadra (lentils, rice & caramelized onions) using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lebanese Mujadra (lentils, rice & caramelized onions):
- Prepare cooking the lentils
- Get 2 cup water
- Take 1 cup brown or green lentils, sorted and rinsed clean
- Make ready caramelized onions
- Prepare 2 large onions, sliced
- Prepare 1/2 cup Sunflower or canola oil
- Make ready 1 pinch salt
- Make ready cooking the finished dish
- Make ready 2 cup water
- Prepare 3/4 cup long grain rice
- Take 1/4 tsp ground cumin, optional
- Get 1 salt and pepper to taste
Meanwhile, mix all the garlic yogurt ingredients in a bowl, season and set aside. Mujadara (mujaddara) is a signature Middle Eastern dish of lentils and rice garnished with crispy onions. This simple dish will surprise your taste buds in the best way possible. Mujadara Lentils and Rice Recipe - This hearty vegan dish, also known as Lebanese Rice, is a favorite classic meal from the Middle East.
Steps 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!
Mujaddara is an easy and flavorful make-ahead meal, loaded with fabulous spices and topped with fried caramelized onions! Seasoned with Middle Eastern flavors and topped with crispy fried onions, makes this a truly irresistible meal. Mujadara, also known as m ujaddara,, 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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