Lentils ( mujadara)

Hello everybody.

Lots of events going on today,I went out to breakfast with my lovely friends to celebrate dear Wafa’s birthday, early this morning I baked another Nescafe Cake, I think this one will be my trademark from now on,with the same ornament and flowers. Everybody enjoyed it and was a delightful surprise.

Back home I got the nicest present from my lovely niece Layan,a box of mixed herbs from Istanbul, thank you dear 🙂

At lunch time plans changed a bit,I’ve already cooked some lentils before I left ,thought I’ll make one of Mary’s recipes from her lovely book “On Healthy Cooking” but then discovered I don’t have all ingredients available,so ended up making mjadara with fried onions and some salad.

here are links for today’s recipes;

* Mjadara.

*Nescafe cake.

* Mary’s Dinner Clubs Limassol.

beautifully packed spices and herbs from Istanbul.

Lentils in Cooked Yoghurt (مقطعه ).

Hello again.

I’m sure many of you specially youngsters never heard of this dish. Actually it’s a very very old traditional dish from Irbid (Northern Jordan) our late grandmas used to make it whenever they have a leftover cooked yoghurt (jameed) after a mansaf.

Of course many people still do it nowadays but not like before. I still have some jameed from last lunch gathering so I called a dear auntie who still makes this dish and took the recipe. Thank you auntie Um Rakan, everybody loved it.

Ingredients and method:
* cooked yoghurt or jameed.
* 2 cups cooked brown lentils.
* 2-3 cups plain dough meaning only flour, salt and water. You can add a bit of instant yeast also.
* 2-3 thinly sliced onions.

* boil yoghurt then add lentils.
* devide dough to 4 parts then start rolling it to very thin pieces as wide and thin as you can.
* slice dough to thin stripes and keep adding flour so that they seperate.I used the pasta machine. Easier aa lot.
* add dough stripes to yoghurt mixture slowly and keep stirring so that they won’t clot.
* season with salt and pepper if needed.
* leave to simmer for 20-30 minutes.
* fry onions till brown and krispy to decorate dish in top.
* served hot.

Enjoy ♡♥♡♥

Cooked Brown Lentils (حراق اصبعه )

Hello everybody.

We’re ordering food today but thought I’ll do a side dish this is a Syrian appetizer, I always thought it’s hard to make or needs too much ingredients and steps..but then I found this basic recipe in an old book called ABC of cooking ( الف باء الطبخ),, been doing it since then by the book, very easy and nutritious.
Lentils are rich in iron and protein, can be a very good substitute for meat to vegetarians.

Ingredients and method:
* 1 cup brown lentils.
* 2-3 cloves garlic
* 3-4 onions.
* bunch of coriander.
* 1/2 cup lemon juice.
* 2 spoons pomegranate sauce ( دبس رمان ).
* 1 cup small size pasta.
* cubed fried pitta bread.
* salt, pepper, cumin powder.

* wash lentils then boil in 4 cups of water , add salt and 1 spoon cumin.
* add the pasta and leave to simmer till done.
* add lemon juice, pomegranate sauce.
* fry the onions in oil till golden.
* crush garlic and chop coriander then saute them in some oil.
* add half the amount of onions and garlic to lentil pasta mixture. Leave to simmer till it thickens and homogeneous. You might need to add some water.
* upon serving,, in a deep dish put some of the bread in the bottom.
*add the lentil mixture.
* decorate with the rest if garlic, onions and bread cubes.
* serve hot.

final result.

Enjoy ♡♥♡♥.

Cooked Brown Lentils (حراق اصبعه )

Hello everybody.

Enjoy ♡♥♡♥.

Vegetarian today, Mujadara :)

Today is no meat or chicken day….I made mujaddara..
..It’s a traditional middle eastern dish…made from lentils and rice or burghul.
it’s served with basic old fashion salad…which means it contains onions, tomatoes, dried mint.lemon juice.salt and a drizzle of olive oil.

Recipe for Mujaddara:
1 cup brown lentil.
1 cup rice or coarse burghul.
1 cube chicken stock.

1 or 2 large onions

Boil the lentils in water with 1 small spoon cumin powder till tender.
Wash the rice or burghul add them to the lentils, with the maggi cube, 1tsp of each,, salt, black pepper, mixed spices…and 2 large spoons olive oil.
Add water to the mixture ( almost 2 and 1/4 cup)…let it boil then lower the heat till rice is cooked.
Chopp the onions to thin slices and fry in olive oil till crispy…and serve them with the mujaddara…
This is a very nutritious dish,, a good source of protein and iron.
Some people love to eat it with yoghurt as well.

And the evening is completed with simple strawberry cake with syrup and minted tea at our lovely friend Ruba’s house.

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