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Mumawwash

Name: Mumawwash
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Kuwait
Ingredients: 300g (long-grain rice) Rice; 100g Mung beans, peeled and dried; 1 Onion; 1/2 tsp Turmeric; 1/2 Lime; 3 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1 1/2 tsp Salt; 600ml Water

Rice

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Mung beans and rice cooked together — Kuwait's humble bean rice.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mumawwash is a traditional Kuwaiti bean rice: mung beans (mash) and rice are cooked with onion, turmeric, and dried lime. The old-fashioned pairing is dried or fried fish. Reflecting a history of trade with India, it's often made for everyday lunch.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At lunch in a Kuwaiti home, yellow rice dotted with green beans is mounded on a big platter and served with fried small fish.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Rice 300g (long-grain rice)
Mung beans, peeled and dried 100g
Onion 1
Turmeric 1/2 tsp
Lime 1/2
Vegetable oil 3 tbsp
Salt 1 1/2 tsp
Water 600ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rinse the mung beans and boil in water for 15 minutes until half-tender.
Heat oil in a pot, fry the sliced onion, and add the turmeric.
Add the rinsed rice, mung beans, sliced lime, salt, and water and bring to a boil.
Cover and cook on low for 20 minutes.
Let stand 10 minutes and mix.

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