How to Make Ultimate Koshari

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, koshari. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Koshari is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Koshari is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Koshari:

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

Steps 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.

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