Mujadara
Lentils and rice buried under deeply fried onions.
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- 50 min
- Total
- 60 min
- Active
- 25 min
- Serves
- 5
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Cuisine
- middle-eastern
Servings5
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Ingredients
Steps
Fry the onions in the oil over medium heat 20 minutes until deep brown and crisp; drain, keeping 3 tbsp of the oil.
Simmer the lentils in the water for 12 minutes until barely tender.
Add the rice, spices, salt, and reserved oil, cover, and cook on low 15 minutes.
Rest 10 minutes off the heat, fluff, and fold in half the onions.
Pile the rest on top and serve with yogurt and parsley.
Take the onions past golden to genuinely brown — that's the whole flavor.