Recipe: Appetizing Kushari

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Kushari. Koshary, also kushari, and koshari and (Egyptian Arabic: كشري‎, [ˈkoʃæɾi]), is Egypt's national dish and a widely popular street food. Kushari or Koshari is originated in Egypt. It may be prepared at home and is also served at roadside stalls and restaurants all over Egypt.

Kushari is a delicious Egyptian vegetarian recipe consisting of green lentils, macaroni and rice mixed together with caramelised onions.

It is served with a tomato-based sauce.

Koshari (also spelled Koshary or Kushari) is the national dish of Egypt.

You can have Kushari using 6 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Kushari

1. Prepare 1 cup of chickpeas, soak in water over night.

2. It’s 5 of onions Julian's onions,.

3. Prepare 500 g of pasta, half spaghetti & half small pasta.

4. You need 3 cups of long grain rice,wash and soak for 30 minutes.

5. It’s 1 cup of lentils (green lentils).

6. It’s 1 cup of vermicelli.

It's served in virtually every Egyptian restaurant, in every Egyptian home, and on every Egyptian street corner.

Rice, lentils, macaroni, browned onions, and tomato sauce are prepared separately, then spooned in layers on servings plates in this traditional Egyptian vegetarian meal.

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Here's our recipe for Egyptian kushari, a spicy medley of masterfully blended pasta, rice and lentils.

Kushari instructions

1. In a sauce pan cook chekpeas, with 2 minced garlic cloves, 1 grated tomato, 1 tsp Cummin, & ½ tsp salt.(keep the sauce of cooked chickpeas will be used later).

2. Coat the onions with 2 tbsp flour, 1 tbsp corn starch, ½ tsp black pepper, deep fry untill golden brown and crispy, leave aside. (Keep the fried onion oil will be used later).

3. Cook pasta untill identy, wash with water and drain, toss the pasta with 1 tbsp from the fried onion oil.

4. Preparing tomato sauce: ½kg ripe tomatoes blended to gain tomato juice ; 4 minced garlic cloves, 1 red hot chili or red bell pepper (as desired), 1 tbsp tomato paste, 1 tsp sugar,.

5. In a hot sauce pan take 2 tbsp of fried onion oil, sautee garlic untill fragrant,add chili or bell pepper, & tomato paste, stir alittle then add the tomato juice & sugar, stir untill well combined, bring into a boil, leave on heat 5 minutes, then take off the heat..

6. Al-daqqa (special kushari sauce): 1 cup from chickpeas boiling water, 4 minced garlic cloves, ¼ cup white vinegar, lemon juice (as desired), 1 tsp chili paste or bell pepper paste, ½ tsp Cummin, ½ tsp salt, in a sauce pan add all the mentioned ingredients, bring to a boil then take off heat..

7. Rice preparation : in a cooking pan add, 3 tbsp onion fried oil, little portion from perviously fried onion, and vermicelli, toss together untill golden brown, add lintels and rice toss then add Cummin, salt & a pinch of peppers toss all together then add water (as rice pack directions), in my recipe I added water untill rice is soaked (cover the rice).

8. Cover the cooking pot leave at low heat untill done..

9. Serving : when you want to serve, take a desired plate, pour pasta, lintels and rice, chickpeas, tomato sauce, crispy onion than daqqa, and enjoy your special dish.

10. As for serving you can serve the way you desire.

How to make Egyptian kushari… Kushari, also koshari (Egyptian Arabic: كشري‎, [ˈkoʃæɾi]), is Egypt's national dish and a widely popular street food.

Kushari is often found in small local restaurants and stands in Egypt.

Though it can be made at home, this dish is better suited to mass production and professional settings.

Famous egyptian street food of kushari, inexpensive and healthy.

A mix of rice, pasta, beans topped with a garlicky vinegar tomato sauce and garnished with crispy fried onions.