{"id":255,"date":"2012-07-02T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enrilemoine.com\/2012\/07\/02\/majadra-lentils-with-rice\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:31:31","slug":"majadra-lentils-with-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enrilemoine.com\/en\/2012\/07\/02\/majadra-lentils-with-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Majadra {Lentils with Rice}"},"content":{"rendered":"

Majadra: Lentils with Rice.<\/p>\n

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I love Middle East food and to celebrate my birthday, last week my friend Ilse took me to lunch to Harvest Delights<\/i>, a very respectable restaurant specialized in Middle East food, in Doral. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The food was so good that the following day I went back to buy a couple of baklavas and also some tahini<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Last Saturday, my friends Marisela, Vanessa and her husband Jos\u00e9 Gregorio, came for dinner. To celebrate life and the fact that now we\u2019re so close, I treated them with some homemade hummus<\/a><\/i>, baba ganoush<\/a><\/i>, tabouleh<\/a><\/i> and this majadra<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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I first had this lentil and rice dish, seasoned with onions, onions and more onions, a long time ago at my favorite Middle East food restaurant in Caracas: my unbeatable Damasco<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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I unsuccessfully tried to replicate it at home until I found a video with the recipe by Rose Hassin. Through the time, I modified Rose\u2019s proportions to try to recreate the dish that I used to have at \u201cel Damasco<\/i>\u201d (always accompanied with tabouleh<\/i> and chanclish<\/i> cheese salad.)<\/p>\n

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My recipe is pretty much \u201cthat\u201ddish. I just got crazy about the onions so I tripled the amount suggested by Rose. I hope you like it.<\/p>\n

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Majadra<\/i> (Lentil with Rice) | Ingredients for 8 portions<\/b>
\n4 big onions, finely sliced
\nVegetable oil
\n1 \u00bd cups of lentils
\n3 \u00bd cups of water
\n1 cup of rice
\nCoarse sea salt<\/p>\n

Preheat the oven to 400\u00b0F.<\/p>\n

In a deep frying pan over medium to high heat, fry the onions in four parts, until they are dark brown.<\/p>\n

While frying the onions, stir occasionally.<\/p>\n

Place the fried onions on paper towels.<\/p>\n

In a bowl add the lentils and 1 cup of water and microwave it in high for 4-5 minutes.<\/p>\n

Combine the rice with the lentils, \u00bc of the onions and the rest of the water.<\/p>\n

Add salt to taste and stir.<\/p>\n

Bake covered in a casserole dish for 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

Gently stir and bake for 15-20 minutes more.<\/p>\n

Cover the majadra<\/i> with the rest of the onions.<\/p>\n

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