Fancy Brown Rice and French Green Lentils
From darmorrow 16 years ago
- 75 minutes to make
- Serves 6
This is a really nice side dish for Indian dishes. I make it when the main dish isn't really saucy as we like to add the sauce to the rice. This is from Vij's cookbook. They won an award for this cookbook and I highly recommend it to anyone that likes Indian cooking . Read more It is well worth the price. See less
Ingredients
- 1 cup French green lentils- don't use regular green lentils as they mush out and totally change the texture oft the dish. The french green lentils keep their shape shopping list
- 1 cup brown basmati rice shopping list
- 1 tbsp canola oil shopping list
- 1 tbsp ghee shopping list
- 1/2 tsp asafoetida shopping list
- 1 Tbsp cumin seeds shopping list
- 1 cup finely chopped onions shopping list
- 1 inch cinnamon shopping list
- 1/2 tsp turmeric shopping list
- 1 tsp salt shopping list
- 1/2 tsp cayenne shopping list
- 6 cups water shopping list
- 1 cup coconut milk, stirred, low fat shopping list
How to make it
- Combine rice and lentils. Wash thoroughly - rinsing twice. Set aside.
- In a pot large enough to cook the rice and lentils melt the ghee and oil together. Heat o high for 1 minute
- Add asafoetida and stir for 15 seconds.
- Add cumin seeds immediately, stir and let sizzle 30 seconds.
- Reduce heat to medium, add onions and cinnamon, stirring well into the cumin seeds.
- Saute onions for 8-10 minutes or until brown
- Add turmeric, salt and cayenne. Cook 1 minute.
- Add water, coconut milt and the mixed lentils and rice.
- Increase heat to high and bring to boil.
- cover and simmer for at 1 least 1 hour,
- Stir and ;make sure rice cooked.
- Let rice to sit 5 minutes.
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