Homemade Mujadara Recipe - Levantine Rice and Lentils (video)

This week is a delicious and filling Levantine rice and lentils dish called Mujadar (or Mujaddara). This is one of those dishes where there are so many regional variations that the sky is more or less the limit on what you can do, but this is the basic stripped-down version. So long as you use olive oil and no butter, this dish remains vegan, and it makes a huge amount. It's also quite versatile. One of my favourite things to do is to put this along with some cheese into a flour tortilla and heating it up in a pan until the tortilla is a little crispy.

We used brown lentils for this, but green are also fine. More traditional would be black "Beluga" lentils, which are actually a different plant from the green and brown varieties! The black lentils have a significantly different flavour, but are also delicious in this recipe, and you can treat them in exactly the same way as the green or brown. A little tomato product also goes nicely in this recipe, in the form of either chopped sundried tomatoes or even just a little bit of tomato paste added in to the rice and onions before you cover them with the lentils for the long cook.

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