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easy dish, fast prepared dish, legumes, lentil, main dish, middle eastern, mujadara, rice dish, vegetarian
At first, I have some picture of our last vacation trip to Colorado, it’s my pleasure to share with you for now, until I write the whole trip report in a separate post later, here is some to enjoy the scenes.
The scene of the suspended bridge from the highest point in the region.
Rated as the world’s scariest ride ever near the edge of the mountains at royal gorge region in Colorado spring, Colorado.
The bridge and the cable car while riding The Royal Gorge Railway.
This is our second time to Colorado, this time we spend it in Colorado spring region most of the time, the fascinating canyon city (where the highest suspended bridge, along the Arkansas river) Colorado spring is a place that’s more than just another destination; it’s the experience of a lifetime.
Here is me, my beloved husband and my three little cowboys at Garden of Gods.
Hope you enjoyed those pictures, and be ready for the rest.
But for now, let’s talk about my very favourite dish ever.
Mujadara is a very popular middle eastern dish. Will known in levant countries of Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and egypt as a poor man’s dish, but it’s also a very nutritious vegetarian meal especially if served with fresh vegetable salad.
Very light, easy and fast preparing, for me, it’s the rescuer dish, since I sometimes have no interest in preparing anything, then think of mujadara as it’s the fast and all of my family love it. My husband’s work mates first time tried it, they asked for the recipe, my husband told them it’s the famous Palestinian’s noodles version.
Mujadara
1 cup brown lentil
1 1\4 cup basmati rice
2 onions sliced
olive oil
1\2 teaspoon cumin
1\4 teaspoon ground all spice
1\2 teaspoon sumac
1\4 teaspoon ground coriander
1\4 teaspoon Turmeric (for the yelow color)
salt and pepper
wash the lentils thins cover it with water and bring it to boil, let it cook covered on medium low heat until nearly tender, about 10 min.
At this time, in another pot sauté the onions with 3-4 tablespoon olive oil, add dash of each of the spice, sizzle the onions until nearly brownish but still crispy.
To the cooked lentils, add the washed rice, 2 tablespoon of the sautéed onion, 2 tablespoon olive oil, all the spices, 1&2\3 cup hot water or stock (I used chicken stock), bring it to boil, cover and continue to cook in very low heat until the rice fully cooked about 10 min.
Serve it with the sautéed onions on top, with a side of fresh vegetable salad, or cucumber and yogurt dip
Enjoy.
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thefooddoctor said:
first of all…it is a pleasure to finally see you my friend 🙂
Second the pictures are breath taking…subhan alla
Love you mujadara and love the pics too
Good Cooks said:
Hi sawsan, haha inshallah we will meet some day face to face, because I realy wants to see you too. I mean sometimes you think of your imagination about somebody and to put the right faces over the personalties.
Very excited to that day. thanks sawsan.
fati's recipes said:
OOOooooooooooo…. I can’t believe how gorgeous you and family are 🙂
Masha Allah, may Allah bless your family always!
This mujadara is very interesting. I’ve never seen it yellow with red onion 🙂 Seems like a great idea to try…. I usually top mine with baharat and walnuts, too. 😀
fati's recipes said:
OOPS! Sorry, not walnuts, I meant to say almonds 🙂
Good Cooks said:
Oh thank you fati, you are so kind, may allah bless you and your family too.
Yes my mujadara like to put turmeric in it, and i like the red onions too, haha some sort of change, thanks fati for stoping by.
Nami @ Just One Cookbook said:
Hi Samah! Nice to meet you and your family! Your boys are ADORABLE!!!! And oh my… it’s so beautiful. I always want to visit Colorado. I heard a great things about nature there…. And I’m new to Mujadara but looks delicious and I’d love to try eating this!
Good Cooks said:
Yes Nami, there’s a beautiful nature out there, the bears and deers and wolfs and many more wild animals are all there, many activities you can do skiing camping rafting climping and so many things, really it’s worth to visit. Hope you will be happy with the mujadara, let me know once you do it.