Guide to Make Koshari

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, koshari. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Koshri is another one of those genius solutions to using up pantry staples. It is a cousin to the Middle Eastern Mujadara. In a nutshell, it is a comforting bowl of simple pantry staples: spiced lentils and rice, combined with chickpeas and small pasta.

Koshari is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Koshari is something that I have loved my whole life.

Recipe of Koshari

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have koshari using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Koshari:

1. Make ready Rice & lentil pilaf (mjaddarah):
2. Make ready 2 cups Egyptian rice, soaked in water for 30 minutes and strained
3. Make ready 1 cup brown lentils
4. Take 3 white onions, thinly wedges
5. Take 1/2 tsp cumin powder
6. Prepare 1/4 cup vegetable oil
7. Get to taste salt
8. Get Hot boiling water
9. Prepare Tomato Sauce:
10. Get 2 tbsp vegetable oil
11. Prepare 2 garlic cloves, crushed
12. Make ready 1 tsp cumin powder
13. Get 1 cup tomato juice
14. Prepare 1 tbsp tomato paste
15. Prepare 1 cup chickpeas, boiled
16. Prepare 1 cup elbow pasta (small sized), boiled salt & pepper to taste
17. Make ready Daqqa (chili vinegar dressing )
18. Get 1/4 cup hot water
19. Get 2 Tbsp vinegar or Juice of 2 lemons
20. Make ready 2 cloves garlic, crushed
21. Prepare to taste salt

It's served in "fast food" type restaurants, sold from carts by street vendors and made in the home. Koshari (كشري) also called kushari or kosheri, is one of the most popular dishes in the land of the Pharaohs, a delicious vegan combination prepared with chickpeas, lentils, macaroni and rice. Egyptian koshari is also called koshari abu gibba. The full name can be explained by the presence, in the recipe, of black lentils, also called ads abu gibba.

Instructions

Instructions to make Koshari:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. To prepare the "Daqqa" , mix all ingredients in an electric mixer. Set aside
5. 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.

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. Koshari (also spelled Koshary or Kushari) is the national dish of Egypt. It's served in virtually every Egyptian restaurant, in every Egyptian home, and on every Egyptian street corner. Street vendors serve the dish from carts to people eagerly waiting in line to eat this beloved and highly popular dish. Koshari (also spelled kushari and koshary) is one of the national dishes of Egypt, and it's what I call "real deal comfort food".

As simple as that Steps to Prepare Koshari

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