Moujaddara - Yellow Lentils

Name: Moujaddara - Yellow Lentils
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 cups red lentils; Handful basmati rice; 1 chopped onion; 5.5 cups water; 1 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp cumin; 3 tbsp olive oil

Linda L. @lindzi

Lebanese

When you don’t have any meat in the fridge and you need to make it to the end of the month 💸 or you feel that you just want something quick and easy, go lentil 🤷‍♀️
This Lebanese recipe is made of 3 main ingredients that you definitely have in your kitchen 👩🏻‍🍳
#vegetarian #vegan #cookingonabudget #lebanese

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Ingredients

2 cupsred lentils
Handfulbasmati rice
1chopped onion
5.5 cupswater
1 tspsalt
1/2 tspcumin
3 tbspolive oil

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Steps

1

Wash the lentils and the rice first and soak them in water for 10 min
2

In a pot, start frying the onion in the olive oil
3

Once the onion is softened, add the lentil, rice, cumin and salt to it
4

Add the water to the mixture and cover the pot
5

Stir every 5 minutes for ~30 min until you get a porridge like consistency as in this picture
6

Tada 🎉 your food is ready! Enjoy it with flatbread and olives. We usually have on the side a plate of fresh mint leaves, green onion and radish.