Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, koshari. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really 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 popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Koshari is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have koshari using 18 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Koshari:
- Make ready 2 tbsp oil
- Prepare 1 medium carrot finely diced
- Get 1 onion finely diced
- Get 4 cm piece fresh ginger
- Take 3 gloves, crushed
- Prepare 1 small red chilli finely diced
- Prepare 2 tbs tomato puree
- Get 2 tsp baharat spice
- Get 400 g tin chopped tomatoes
- Make ready 20 g brown lentils (I used red in this recipe)
- Take 400 g tin chickpeas
- Take 30 g organic brown rice
- Make ready 1 ltr vegetable stock
- Prepare 30 g vermichelli pasta, bashed into small pieces
- Take Handful fresh coriander leaves, chopped
- Make ready sprinkle of parsley, chopped
- Prepare 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. Koshary (Egyptian Arabic: كشري , [ˈkoʃæɾi]), also kushari and koshari, is Egypt's national dish and a widely popular street food. 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.
Instructions 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.
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. 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.
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