Moutzentra (lentils with rice)

Name: Moutzentra (lentils with rice)
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 cup lentils; 1 cup long-grain white rice; 1-2 onions; olive oil; salt; pepper

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Greece

Lentils with rice and fried onion.

Recipe by meloula

Lentils with rice and fried onion.

Recipe by meloula

Cookpad Greece @cook_8238176

Greece

Lentils with rice and fried onion.

Recipe by meloula

Lentils with rice and fried onion.

Recipe by meloula

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Ingredients

4 servings

1 cuplentils
1 cuplong-grain white rice
1-2onions
olive oil
salt
pepper

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Steps

1

Sort and wash the lentils thoroughly as well as the rice.
2

Boil the lentils until they are tender and strain them keeping the water they have boiled in.
3

Sauté the rice in a little bit of olive oil in a pot.
4

Add 2 - 2.5 cups of the juice that you have kept, salt and pepper.
5

Let it boil for a few minutes and then add the lentils.
6

Leave over heat until all the juices are absorbed and the rice is cooked.
7

Heat a little bit of olive oil in a frying pan and fry the onions, cut into thick slices until they are golden brown.
8

Add them to the rice and mix.