Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, egyptian koshari. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Koshari (also spelled Koshary or Kushari) is the national dish of Egypt. Egyptian koshari recipe is one of the easy Egyptian recipes. See more of Egypt famous food.
Egyptian koshari is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Egyptian koshari is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have egyptian koshari using 30 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Egyptian koshari:
- Prepare For the Crispy onion toppings
- Take 1 large onion, sliced into thin rings
- Make ready Salt
- Take 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- Make ready 1/2 cup cooking oil
- Get For tomato sauce
- Take Cooking oil
- Get 1 small onion, grated
- Take 4 garlic cloves, minced
- Make ready 1 tsp ground coriander
- Take 1/2 –1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
- Get 1 (28 oz) can tomato sauce
- Prepare Salt and pepper
- Make ready 1 –2 tbsp distilled white vinegar
- Prepare For koshari
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup brown lentils, picked over and well-rinsed
- Take 1 1/2 cup medium-grain rice, rinsed, soaked in water for 15 minutes, drained
- Get 1/2 tsp each salt and pepper
- Make ready 1/2 tsp coriander
- Take 2 cups elbow pasta
- Make ready Cooking oil
- Get Water
- Make ready 1 (15 oz) can chickpeas, rinsed, drained and warmed
- Make ready For vinegar sauce
- Get Half cup of vinegar
- Take 1/4 cup water
- Make ready 1 teaspoon cumin
- Take Salt and pepper
- Prepare I teaspoon chili powder
- Take 3 cloves Minced garlic
Egypt is known and famous for the Pyramids of Giza and the Great Ancient Egyptian civilization. But that is not all what Egypt is famous for. Kushari, also Koshari and Koshary (Egyptian Arabic: كشري, [ˈkoʃæɾi]), is Egypt's national dish and a widely popular street food. I've never had koshari before but this substitution seemed to work out just fine.
Steps to make Egyptian koshari:
- Make the crispy onion topping. - - Sprinkle the onion rings with salt, then toss them in the flour to coat. Shake off excess flour. - In a large skillet, heat the cooking oil over medium-high heat, cook the onion rings, stirring often, until they turn a nice caramelized brown. Onions must be crispy, but not burned (15-20 minutes).
- Make the Tomato Sauce. - - In a saucepan, heat 1 tbsp cooking oil. Add the grated onion, cook on medium-high until the onion turns a translucent gold (do not brown). Now add the garlic, coriander, and red pepper flakes, if using, and saute briefly until fragrant (30-45 seconds more). - Stir in tomato sauce and pinch of salt. Bring to a simmer and cook until the sauce thickens (15 minutes or so). - Stir in the distilled white vinegar, and turn the heat to low. Cover and keep warm until ready to serve.
- Make the Koshari - - Cook the lentils. Bring lentils and 4 cups of water to a boil in a medium pot or saucepan over high heat. Reduce the heat to low and cook until lentils are just tender (15-17 minutes). Drain from water and season with a little salt. (Note: when the lentils are ready, they should not be fully cooked. They should be only par-cooked and still have a bite to them as they need to finish cooking with the rice
- Now, for the rice. Drain the rice from its soaking water. Combine the par-cooked lentils and the rice in the saucepan over medium-high heat with 1 tbsp cooking oil, salt, pepper, and coriander. Cook for 3 minutes, stirring regularly.
- Add warm water to cover the rice and lentil mixture by about 1 1/2 inches (you’ll probably use about 3 cups of water here). Bring to a boil; the water should reduce a bit. Now cover and cook until all the liquid has been absorbed and both the rice and lentils are well cooked through (about 20 minutes). Keep covered and undisturbed for 5 minutes or so.
- Now make the pasta. While the rice and lentils are cooking, make the pasta according to package instructions by adding the elbow pasta to boiling water with a dash of salt and a little oil. Cook until the pasta is al dente. Drain.
- Cover the chickpeas and warm in the microwave briefly before serving.
- For the vinegar sauce. Mix the half cup vinegar, 1/4 cup of water, cumin, garlic, chili powder, paprika. Mix it all together well
- Put it All Together! - To serve, fluff the rice and lentils with a fork and transfer to a serving platter. Top with the elbow pasta and 1/2 of the tomato sauce, then the chickpeas, and finally 1/2 of the crispy onions for garnish. Serve, passing the remaining sauce, crispy onions and vinegar sauce separately. Enjoy
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