Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, koshari. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Koshary, koshari or kushari is one of the traditional Egyptian food. This dish is considered the national dish of Egypt and a very popular street Egyptian koshari recipe is one of the easy Egyptian recipes. How to make koshari step by step Arabic food.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook koshari using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Koshari:
- Get Rice & lentil pilaf (mjaddarah):
- Make ready Egyptian rice, soaked in water for 30 minutes and strained
- Make ready brown lentils
- Get white onions, thinly wedges
- Get cumin powder
- Make ready vegetable oil
- Make ready salt
- Prepare Hot boiling water
- Take Tomato Sauce:
- Make ready vegetable oil
- Get garlic cloves, crushed
- Prepare cumin powder
- Get tomato juice
- Get tomato paste
- Get chickpeas, boiled
- Get elbow pasta (small sized), boiled salt & pepper to taste
- Make ready Daqqa (chili vinegar dressing )
- Get hot water
- Prepare vinegar or Juice of 2 lemons
- Take garlic, crushed
- Prepare salt
Lentils With Wild Rice & Crispy Onions (Koshari). It's a great koshari recipe to get you hooked on the dish and to build from if you have certain flavors that you love or would want to add to it. This makes a TON of koshari!!! Koshari is a cozy pile of warm carbs—traditionally, cooked rice, lentils, macaroni, and chickpeas, all mixed together—smothered in perky tomato sauce and buried in fried shallots.
Steps to make Koshari:
- In a medium pot, place vegetable oil and fry wedged onions till golden and crisp. Set aside on a kitchen paper and save the frying oil aside.Place lentils in the same pot, add sufficient hot water to cover the lentils, boil till tender (you might need to add more water). Strain lentils if there was any excess water. Put them back in the pot.
- Add rice to the lentils and vegetable oil we used to fry the onions, mix all together. Add 2 ½ cups of boiling water, salt and cumin powder. Wait till the water evaporates, mix in half of the fried onions, lower down the heat and cover and leave it to cook for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, lets prepare the hot sauce: In a sauce pan, sauté garlic, add tomato juice, tomato paste, cumin and salt. Simmer for 10 minutes. Add chickpeas. Set aside.
- To prepare the "Daqqa" , mix all ingredients in an electric mixer. Set aside
- Now to assemble the dish, layer the components as follows: - 1) rice & lentils pilaf (mjaddarah) Elbow pasta, - 2) Tomato sauce, - 3) Crunchy Onions, - 4) Add a dash of “daqqa” if you like to add more spiciness to your dish.
Koshari, one of Egypt's National dishes, is a hearty dish composed of rice, lentils, chickpeas, pasta, topped with a spicy tomato sauce and fried onions. Koshari, a classic Egyptian street food, is a starch-lover's dream: Rice, pasta, and legumes are crowned with a spicy-sweet tomato sauce and creamy. Look no farther than the store cupboard for this popular Egyptian street-food dish of rice, lentils and pasta topped with tomato sauce and fried onions. Koshari, or lentils and rice, is a national Egyptian dish. Also featuring pasta and chickpeas, it makes a healthy & filling meal.
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