Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, koshari. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Koshri is another one of those genius solutions to using up pantry staples. It is a cousin to the Middle Eastern Mujadara. In a nutshell, it is a comforting bowl of simple pantry staples: spiced lentils and rice, combined with chickpeas and small pasta. Combine the lentils and water in a large saucepan.
Koshari is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Koshari is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook koshari using 18 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Koshari:
- Make ready 2 tbsp oil
- Make ready 1 medium carrot finely diced
- Prepare 1 onion finely diced
- Make ready 4 cm piece fresh ginger
- Prepare 3 gloves, crushed
- Prepare 1 small red chilli finely diced
- Make ready 2 tbs tomato puree
- Take 2 tsp baharat spice
- Make ready 400 g tin chopped tomatoes
- Get 20 g brown lentils (I used red in this recipe)
- Get 400 g tin chickpeas
- Prepare 30 g organic brown rice
- Make ready 1 ltr vegetable stock
- Take 30 g vermichelli pasta, bashed into small pieces
- Prepare Handful fresh coriander leaves, chopped
- Make ready sprinkle of parsley, chopped
- Make ready to taste salt and black pepper
- Get 1 lemon, zested (optional)
The magic finish comes from a spicy tomato-sauce topping and garnish of fried onions, all enhanced by garlic-vinegar or chili. Koshari (also spelled Koshary or Kushari) is the national dish of Egypt. It's served in virtually every Egyptian restaurant, in every Egyptian home, and on every Egyptian street corner. Street vendors serve the dish from carts to people eagerly waiting in line to eat this beloved and highly popular dish.
Steps to make Koshari:
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan and saute the onion and carrot for 10 minutes until slightly brown. Add the ginger, chilli and garlic and cook for a further 2 minutes.
- Add the baharat spice, stir and cook for 1 minute. Add the tomato puree and tomatoes and stir well.
- Add the chickpeas, lentils, rice and vegetable stock and simmer on a low heat for half an hour. Add the pasta and season to taste. cook until the pasta is soft.
- Serve with crusty bread, a sprinkling of coriander, parsley and a grate of lemon.
It's served in virtually every Egyptian restaurant, in every Egyptian home, and on every Egyptian street corner. Street vendors serve the dish from carts to people eagerly waiting in line to eat this beloved and highly popular dish. 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. 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 food.
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