This is an AI-generated image.

Jordanian Mujaddara

Name: Jordanian Mujaddara
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Jordan
Ingredients: 150g Lentils; 1 cup Raw rice; 3 Onion; 1 tsp Cumin powder; 100ml Olive oil; 1 1/2 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; To taste Plain yogurt; 1 Cucumber

Rice

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Lentils and rice cooked together and heaped with crispy fried onions — humble Middle Eastern home cooking.

📱 Open in Storage App

🚧 The Storage app is currently in development. Please check back soon.

📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mujaddara is a simple dish of lentils and rice (or bulgur) cooked together and topped with plenty of fried onions, eaten in the Middle East for centuries. Cheap and nourishing, it's sometimes called 'poor man's food,' but for many it's a nostalgic taste of home. It's served with yogurt or salad.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a weekday evening, the smell of onions frying crisp fills a Jordanian kitchen, and they're piled high on the lentil rice.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Lentils 150g
Raw rice 1 cup
Onion 3
Cumin powder 1 tsp
Olive oil 100ml
Salt 1 1/2 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Plain yogurt To taste
Cucumber 1

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the lentils in water for 15 minutes until just slightly firm.
Slice the onions and shallow-fry in olive oil until deep brown and crisp.
Add some of the fried onions and their oil to the lentils, along with the rinsed rice, cumin, salt, and water.
Cover and cook on low for 20 minutes, then let stand 10 minutes.
Mound on a plate and top with plenty of the remaining crispy onions.
Serve with yogurt and cucumber.

← More Jordan recipes 🗺 Explore another country