Rice with lentils - Arabic

Rice with lentils - Arabic


ingredients:

2 cups uncooked rice washed
4 cups boiling water to cook rice
2 cups cooked lentils, with
4 cups boiling water
1 teaspoon sesame oil, or corn

Other Ingredients:

2 heaped tablespoons of butter or oil
1 pound of sliced onion
1 level tablespoon salt

Prepare to Lentil:

Wash the lentils, leave to soak for 4-6 hours.
Cook the lentils with water from the sauce over the four cups of boiling water leave the fire to soften, if you need to add a little more water to finish cooking.

Mode Prepare the rice:

Rinse the rice under running water, then sauté with sesame oil, add four cups of boiling water and half the salt, when almost cooked add the cooked lentils with a cup of cooking water mix well, let the fire until dry. taste the salt ..

Separately peel the onions and cut them into thin slices, saute in butter, until wilted, be very dark, while burning.

Serve mode:

To serve place the rice and lentils on a platter, arrange well and put over the whole onion.
Serve hot

You can decorate with mint leaves around the plate.
If you prefer you can cut mint leaves.

If you want to shaping can then cooked, shaped hole in the center.
Decorate the bottom of the pan with slices of boiled eggs, tomatoes and black olives and chopped parsley and above all ready onion.
Unmold and garnish with shredded lettuce and cherry tomatoes on top.