Lebanese Mujadara
Mujadara is a Middle Eastern lentils and rice recipe made w caramelized onions. You only need three ingredients to make this simple vegan, protein-rich meal
If there’s one meal that’s my fallback go-to dish in my kitchen, it’s this authentic mujadara recipe. It’s one of those recipes where the dish is greater than the sum of its parts. It’s made with only three ingredients essentially, but it’s amazing how those ingredients come together so beautifully! And that’s all in how those three items are cooked! Mujadara is an inexpensive, delicious and nutritious recipe!
Mujadara is an arabic word that means “pockmarked.” Basically it’s made up of lentils, rice (or bulgur) and onions. And they say lentils cooked with the rice look like pockmarks (pimples). That’s kind of a weird analogy for food. But nonetheless, the recipe is ancient and a very traditional Middle Eastern dish.
It’s often referred to as peasant food because of how inexpensive and simple it is to make. And there are countless variations of the recipe, but this is one I learned from my Lebanese parents. In some regions mujadara is referred to as the dish made with lentils and bulgur, while mudardara is the one with lentils and rice.
