About this dish
Lentils and rice cooked together and topped with deeply caramelized onions.
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Ingredients
🫘1 cup brown lentils
🍚1 cup rice
🧅3 onions, thinly sliced
🫒1/2 cup olive oil
Method
Serves 31
Simmer the lentils in water until nearly tender.2
Add rice and continue cooking until both are soft and the water is absorbed.3
Fry the onions slowly in olive oil until deeply caramelized and crisp.4
Top the lentil and rice mixture generously with the caramelized onions.5
Serve warm or at room temperature with yogurt.✓ What Makes it Authentic
Moujadara is a traditional Lebanese lentil dish, historically a humble, inexpensive staple, valued for the sweetness of the caramelized onions.
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