MJADARARice with Lentils
From tetamalu 16 years ago
- 45 minutes to make
- Serves 68
You can make this early on, and serve room temperature, or warm off the stove. Crispy onion feathers are cooked in olive oil for flavor and garnish. serve with a tomato salad, or yogurt/cucumber mix. Arabic spice instructions included.
Ingredients
- 2 cups brown lentils 1 C presoaked rice shopping list
- 2 medium onions, thinly slice lengthwise—like feathers shopping list
- 1 tsp. salt ½ tsp. ground cumin ½ tsp. black pepper shopping list
- ¼ to ½ C olive oil shopping list
How to make it
- Wash and clean lentils. Boil in water to cover with several whole cloves of garlic until almost tender.
- Fry the onion in oil until nicely browned. (Add some sugar to them to get them to brown quicker).
- Mix in the rice with the lentils and the spices.
- Pour the oil and onions over this and add boiling water to cover. Reserve some of the onions for garnish.
- Cover and simmer gently until the rice is soft and all liquid is absorbed, adding more boiling water if necessary
- More rice can be added if desired.
- Arabic spices can be used in addition: 2 parts ground Allspice, 1 part ground cinnamon, 1/2 part ground cloves, 1/2 part ground nutmeg. All spices should be freshly ground, before mixing, and then kept in air tight container.
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I love lentils. Another great recipe. Thanks and 5 forks.
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