Majadra for Lynn

פורסם בתאריך על ידי

While Lynn was here for the pita bread, she told Liat and me that she got a lot of new spices and spice mixes from her neighbor Sigal, who just got back from Israel. We talked about the different cooking opportunities and Liat mentioned that a lot of the spice mixes would work with rice. Immediately we thought about Majadra

The best Majadra I ever ate was at the First Naama's parents. It was made by Drora, their family's friend and it was amazing. I think mostly because she used so much onion that the whole thing was swirlying in my mouth (yes, I get poetic when thinking about good food…)

Luckily, the First Naama, posted a recipe for Majadra in her blog a couple of years ago(in Hebrew). here is the short version  

Oh, yes – like the First Naama says in her post, this recipe is not the one where you keep the oil out… in this recipe you use a lot of oil to cook the onions

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Majdara by Drora
Ingredients:
1 cup rice
1 cup pickled and washed green lentils (you can use the ones that are already cooked )
3-4 large onionsunt
Oil

How to:

  1. Slice the onion into circles (about 5 mm thick) and fry.
  2. Cook the lentils in a cup of water for about 20 minutes, until they soften and absorb the water. (of you are using the already cooked lentils – skip this step)
  3. Add the rice / wheat with 2 cups of water and a little oil and salt.
  4. Bring to a boil, lower the heat and cook for another 20 minutes or until the water is absorbed into the rice / wheat.
  5. Add the fried onions with oil.
  6. Extinguish the flame, cover with a towel and seal tightly.
  7. Eat and leave no crumbs.

Note about the onion (copied from the original post):

I sliced the onions and let them swim in the oil (do not deep fry them, but kinda use enough oil to let the onion swim in it) and fried and tasted and tasted and tasted (until the onion was soft and brownish).  And when the time came I mixed it and its oil into the Majdara and from here until we sat down to eat – there was a series of thefts from the pot.