Page 17 - CBS Cookbook
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Preparation:
1 Lentils 6 Tomato sauce:
•Wash lentils and place them in a pot and cover with • Sauté garlic in oil until fragrant, about one minute.
water 2-3 inches. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to • Add vinegar, tomato sauce, salt and pepper then bring
minimum and simmer for 25-30 minutes until almost to a boil.
done. Drain.
• Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes to thicken it
•In the same pot add oil, chopped onion and suate until a bit.
fragrant.
•Add semi-cooked lentils, cumin, salt and tomato sauce.
•Cook for 15 minutes on medium or until tender but not 7 Cumin sauce (not mandatory, but recommended):
mushy. Set aside • Sauté garlic and ground cumin in oil until fragrant,
2 Rice add vinegar, water and salt. This sauce will separate
as it cools down, you'll notice that the cumin and garlic
•Prepare short grain rice as directed on the package or will stay at the bottom while water and vinegar rises to
in your rice cooker. Traditionally, short grain rice is used. top.
Some people use Basmati rice or even Jasmine rice, this • It is recommended to pour this sauce in a bottle and
is ok but not the traditional way to prepare this dish. give it a good shake before using.
3 Vermicelli Crispy Onions
•Making Koshari with vermicelli is not traditional but 8
highly recommended. • Prepare crispy onion by simply frying onion wedges in
•Roast vermicelli in some oil, then gradually add water oil.
until it absorbs the water and becomes tender and not • Take them out on a plate with kitchen paper towel.
clumpy or mushy.
4 Pasta 9 Final stage:
•Cook Pasta according to package directions, drain Combine them, as in this image – one layer over the
then mix in salt and pepper and oil. other – starting with lentils, then rice, then vermicelli,
then pasta, then the sauces and finally the crispy onions
5 Chickpeas on the top. Serve hot and enjoy!
• Cook chickpeas by first draining the soaking water and
washing them well then place in a pot, cover with water
add some salt and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and cook 60-90 minutes until it reaches
the desired tenderness.
