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Koshary, koshari or kushari is one of the traditional Egyptian food. This dish is considered the national dish of Egypt and a very popular street Egyptian koshari recipe is one of the easy Egyptian recipes. How to make koshari step by step Arabic food.

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

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook koshari using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Koshari:

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

Lentils With Wild Rice & Crispy Onions (Koshari). It's a great koshari recipe to get you hooked on the dish and to build from if you have certain flavors that you love or would want to add to it. This makes a TON of koshari!!! 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.

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, one of Egypt's National dishes, is a hearty dish composed of rice, lentils, chickpeas, pasta, topped with a spicy tomato sauce and fried onions. Koshari, a classic Egyptian street food, is a starch-lover's dream: Rice, pasta, and legumes are crowned with a spicy-sweet tomato sauce and creamy. Look no farther than the store cupboard for this popular Egyptian street-food dish of rice, lentils and pasta topped with tomato sauce and fried onions. Koshari, or lentils and rice, is a national Egyptian dish. Also featuring pasta and chickpeas, it makes a healthy & filling meal.

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