Steps to Prepare Perfect Koshari

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, koshari. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Koshari is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Koshari is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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

The ingredients needed to make Koshari:

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