Mujaddara
Mujaddara (مجدرة) is a traditional lentil dish known in Lebanon, Syria, Israel / Palestine, Jordan and Egypt. In addition to Mijaddara, there are various other spellings: Megadarra, Majadra, Mejadra, Moujadara, Mudardara, Megadarra. The name is Arabic and means "pockmarked". The lentils under the rice, or bulgur , resemble pockmarks. For the Christians of the Middle East, mujaddara is a typical fasting food .
There is an everyday vegetarian variant of this dish, as well as a festive variant with meat.
For the dish, lentils are first pre-cooked, then cooked softly with rice, spices (for example: cumin , coriander , turmeric , allspice , cinnamon ) and sugar. Fried onion rings are mixed in before serving.
Older is the preparation with groats or pearl barley instead of rice, "which, when half-cooked, make the popular dish meğaddara , when fully cooked, bērūtīye , when uncooked, mdardara ."
Web links
literature
- Ghillie Başan: The Middle Eastern Kitchen . New York 2001, p. 118. (Online in the Google book preview )
- Yotam Ottolenghi , Sami Tamimi: Jerusalem. The cookbook . Munich, 3rd edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-8310-2333-2 . P. 120.