Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, koshari. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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.
Koshari is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Koshari is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook koshari using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Koshari:
- Prepare Rice & lentil pilaf (mjaddarah):
- Make ready 2 cups Egyptian rice, soaked in water for 30 minutes and strained
- Make ready 1 cup brown lentils
- Get 3 white onions, thinly wedges
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cumin powder
- Make ready 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- Take to taste salt
- Get Hot boiling water
- Prepare Tomato Sauce:
- Get 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- Make ready 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- Make ready 1 tsp cumin powder
- Get 1 cup tomato juice
- Get 1 tbsp tomato paste
- Make ready 1 cup chickpeas, boiled
- Get 1 cup elbow pasta (small sized), boiled salt & pepper to taste
- Get Daqqa (chili vinegar dressing )
- Prepare 1/4 cup hot water
- Take 2 Tbsp vinegar or Juice of 2 lemons
- Make ready 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- Make ready to taste salt
Lentils With Wild Rice & Crispy Onions (Koshari). Koshari, or lentils and rice, is a national Egyptian dish. Also featuring pasta and chickpeas, it makes a healthy & filling meal. Koshari - Egyptian Lentil and Rice Pasta.
Instructions 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. 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. Reviews for: Photos of Egyptian 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. Koshari is the authentic street food of Egypt, a nutritious, vegetarian staple which is enjoyed by thousands daily.
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