Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, koshari. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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. Kushari or Koshari is originated in Egypt.
Koshari is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Koshari is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must 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:
- Make ready Rice & lentil pilaf (mjaddarah):
- Make ready 2 cups Egyptian rice, soaked in water for 30 minutes and strained
- Prepare 1 cup brown lentils
- Make ready 3 white onions, thinly wedges
- Make ready 1/2 tsp cumin powder
- Get 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- Get to taste salt
- Take Hot boiling water
- Make ready Tomato Sauce:
- Get 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- Prepare 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- Take 1 tsp cumin powder
- Get 1 cup tomato juice
- Take 1 tbsp tomato paste
- Make ready 1 cup chickpeas, boiled
- Take 1 cup elbow pasta (small sized), boiled salt & pepper to taste
- Get Daqqa (chili vinegar dressing )
- Make ready 1/4 cup hot water
- Prepare 2 Tbsp vinegar or Juice of 2 lemons
- Make ready 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- Prepare to taste salt
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. The final union of these simple yet carefully. 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. 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.
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.
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