A very tasty vegetarian recipe from Egypt.
ingredients:
serves 5
-2cups rice+ 1/2 cup noodles(shearia)
-1/2 pound pasta
-1 cup lentil (adas bjdh)
-2 medium onions +4tbsp flour+1tbsp starch (corn flower)
For the sauces
-4cups tomato sauce +1&1/2tbsp minced garlic+salt+2tsp cumin+2tsp coriander seeds powder +2tbsp vinegar.
Cooking:
Wash lentils well and add water (1/2 liter) then put it on high fire till boiling then simmer on low heat until almost all the water is absorbed and lentils are well cooked.
*some types of lentils need to be soaked before.
ingredients:
serves 5
-2cups rice+ 1/2 cup noodles(shearia)
-1/2 pound pasta
-1 cup lentil (adas bjdh)
-2 medium onions +4tbsp flour+1tbsp starch (corn flower)
For the sauces
-4cups tomato sauce +1&1/2tbsp minced garlic+salt+2tsp cumin+2tsp coriander seeds powder +2tbsp vinegar.
Cooking:
Wash lentils well and add water (1/2 liter) then put it on high fire till boiling then simmer on low heat until almost all the water is absorbed and lentils are well cooked.
*some types of lentils need to be soaked before.
turn off the heat and add salt,1tsp cumin and 1tbsp oil.
to make the crunchy onion slices .... peel the onions and cut it into thin slices..put on them equal mixture of flour and starch and mix till you make sure that each slice has been covered with flour.
Fry onion, deep fried in any type of vegetable oil
Cook pasta (Parboil it) i used two types Spaghetti and small Rings
Then cook a traditional rice with thin noodles.here is the recipe Egyptian rice with Shearia ( like this)
to make the Kosheri tomato sauce and garlic and vinegar sauce...mince the cloves of garlic with the salt, cumin and coriander.
take part of this mixture and saute it in one tbsp of oil until golden ,add the tomato and then let it simmer for 10 minutes
the vinegar sauce... take the other part of the mixture and add to it a third of vinegar and two thirds water .
in the serving plate put a layer of rice then pasta then the lentils and the tomato sauce then finally the roasted onions
