🫘 Lentils and Rice, Middle Eastern Style

Ingredients

• 🫘150 g brown lentils
• 🍚100 g white rice
• 🧅2 onions
• 🌿1 tsp ground cumin
• 🫒22 ml olive oil
• 🧂to taste salt

• Recipes with rice
• Recipes with onion

Method, step by step

1. Cook the brown lentils in water for 20 minutes over medium heat. Reserve some of the cooking liquid.
2. In a separate frying pan, caramelise the onion in olive oil for 15-20 minutes over low heat.
3. Add the rice to the lentils with the cumin and cook for 15 minutes with the reserved liquid.
4. Mix the lentils and rice and stir in half of the caramelised onion.
5. Serve with the rest of the onion on top.