{"id":5369,"date":"2025-12-05T10:39:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/?p=5369"},"modified":"2025-12-07T10:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:30:52","slug":"rachelles-mujadra-middle-east-rice-and-lentils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/?p=5369","title":{"rendered":"Rachelle's Mujadra, Middle East Rice and Lentils"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mujadara\u2014Middle Eastern Lentils and Rice<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I lived in Israel, I regularly made this dish. The beauty of it, It's a wonderful side dish to go with meat or fish, or you can eat it as a main meal, It's Suitable to serve vegetarians and vegans and its budget friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Ingredients <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please note that when a recipe says a cup. It means a cop or a mug or a vessel As long as you use the same size for all the quantities, it will work very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 teaspoon cumin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 cloves garlic minced<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 bay leaves<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 onions chopped<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 cinnamon stick<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 cups rice \u2013 basmati or long grain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 teaspoon salt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 cups water<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 tablespoon vegetable oil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 cup brown or green lentils dry weight<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 tea spoon Turmeric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Method <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rince the lentils and soak them in cold water at least 6 hours changing the water twice. Drain well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wash the rice in a sieve<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heat the oil in a heavy bottom pan with a fitting lid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add the onions and garlic and saut\u00e9 on a medium heat approximately 7 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add the rice, cumin turmeric & bay leaves stir well and cook for 3-4 minutes, then add the water, the salt, cinnamon stick and lentils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bring to the boil, for about 10 minutes, then reduce the heat give everything a stir, Put the lid on top of the saucepan. cook for a further 40 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rice should be cooked but not slushy, and the lentils still formed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serve .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mujadara\u2014Middle Eastern Lentils and Rice When I lived in Israel, I regularly made this dish. The beauty of it, It's a wonderful side dish to go with meat or fish, or you can eat it as a main meal, It's Suitable to serve vegetarians and vegans and its budget friendly.  Ingredients Please note that when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5371,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions\/5371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}