Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lentils rice with sautéed onion. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Heat a large wok on medium-high heat. Add oil, onion, garlic, ginger, and sesame seeds. Add the rice and cook, stirring often (but gently so you don't break the rice!) until some rice grains start to brown.
Lentils Rice With Sautéed Onion is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Lentils Rice With Sautéed Onion is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lentils rice with sautéed onion using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lentils Rice With Sautéed Onion:
- Prepare 1 & 1/2 cups (*180ml cup) Japanese Short Grain Rice *OR Rice of your choice
- Make ready 1/2 cup (*180 ml cup) Lentils *any colour Lentils
- Take Vegetable Stock *OR Water and 1 Vegetable Stock Cube
- Make ready 2 tablespoons Sake (Rice wine) *optional
- Prepare <Sautéed Onion>
- Make ready Salt as required
- Get 1 Onion *thinly sliced OR finely chopped
- Prepare 1 tablespoon Oil
- Get 1 pinch Salt
- Get Freshly Ground Black Pepper
- Make ready *Note: You can use Crispy Fried Shallots instead of Sautéed Onion
When onion is tender and rice begins to brown lightly, season with pepper, and pour in the broth. This will be going into our regular meal rotation! Mujadara is a signature Middle Eastern dish of lentils and rice w/ crispy fried onions. The lentils are then simmered with long grain rice and topped with crisp-fried onions.
Steps to make Lentils Rice With Sautéed Onion:
- Wash Rice and Lentils and drain. Place in the rice cooker’s inner pot, add Vegetable Stock (OR Water and chopped Vegetable Stock Cube) up to the 2-cups-marking. Add Sake (Rice wine), season with Salt as required, and gently stir.
- Press the Cook/Start button. Meanwhile, cook thinly sliced Onion with Oil in a frying pan until slightly caramelised. Season with 1 pinch Salt.
- When the rice is cooked, let it steamed for 10 minutes, then gently toss to mix. Place the Sautéed Onion on top, sprinkle with Freshly Ground Black Pepper. *Note: You can add Crispy Fried Shallots instead of Sautéed Onion.
Five onions for six servings of rice might seem like a bit much, but the two layers of onions give this dish its wonderfully deep oniony flavor, lending their sweet-savoriness to the rice and lentils. Mujaddara, the rice and beans of the Middle East, is a hearty one-dish vegetarian rice and lentil pilaf containing large brown or green lentils and crispy fried onion strings. For the pilaf, we found that precooking the lentils and soaking. Sautéed onions go really well with all sorts of foods, and they're quick and easy to make. Minimal skill is required to make this dish delicious.
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