Koshari Egyptian national dish recipe

Delicious Egyptian national food recipe  

#Koshari

Didn't eat well yesterday and I was dreaming of food, so I thought today post will be about a national Egyptian dish "Koshari" if you are a vegetarian or not you will love it.
Koshari is a combination of lentils, rice, chickpeas, fried onion and pasta with a Middle Eastern spice tomato sauce

Koshari Recipe for 3 or 4 persons

Ingredients:

½ cup chickpeas 

2 cups rice (must be washed well)

1½  cup brown lentils (must be washed well)

1 cup small Macaroni or spaghetti

4 big onions chopped as rings

5 minced garlic cloves

Olive oil

4 spoons white vinegar

Juice of 4 big tomatoes

1 spoon tomato paste

1 teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon pepper

½ teaspoon cumin

1 teaspoon hot sauce (upon your desire)

procedure:

The video is in Arabic but i have translate it to English at the bottom.

1- We start by putting the chickpeas in hot water for 30 min then we put it on heat till its cooked.
2- We boil the lentils till its half cooked drain from water .
3- We add the rice to the lentil and also add ½ teaspoon of salt and ½ teaspoon of pepper leaving it to be completely cooked.
4- Boil the pasta till its done then pour it through a strainer.
Here is another secret for a really tasty Egyptian Koshari – in a big size pan we put 1 spoon of the oil which we used to fry the onions and we add 2 minced garlic cloves and fry it for 1 minute until it turns pink.
Add the pasta to the pan and leave them together for 5 minutes over low-medium heat while stirring.
5- Onion rings put some salt and 2 tea spoon of starch to make it crispy, frying the chopped onions rings.
Heat 4 tablespoons of olive oil in a medium pan over medium-high heat and leave them for 6 minutes.
Once the onions turn crispy, we dry them using kitchen paper towels.
6- For the tomato sauce- put 2 spoons of the same oil we used before in frying the onions in a medium size saucepan,
add 3 minced garlic cloves. When it turns pink, we add the tomato juice, 1 spoon of tomato paste,
white vinegar and 1 teaspoon of hot sauce over medium-high heat until the sauce becomes heavy.
If you like it spicy, you can also add 1 teaspoon hot sauce.

Serve :

Add the rice, lentil and macaroni to a large bowl or scoop out desired amounts of each onto the plates.
Add some spicy tomato sauce on top. Sprinkle some crispy onions.
For garnish you can add some boiled chickpeas on top.

See you next time with a new Egyptian national dish, leave a comment for any question I will be glad to help.

Sphinx Guardian of the pyramids

#Sphinx

Located on the Giza plateau front of the pyramids on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt, the Sphinx is also a guardian of the plateau. It is the oldest known monumental sculpture, about 73.5 meters long, 15 meters in length, 19.3 meters in length, and 20 meters above the surface of the head. It is believed that the ancient Egyptians built in the reign of Pharaoh Khafre

The Sphinx is a statue of a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head carved from limestone. It was probably originally covered with a layer of plaster and colored. The traces of the original colors are still visible next to one of its ears.

The Sphinx Dream stele is a memorial plaque ordered by Pharaoh Thutmose IV between the extended hands of the statue of the Sphinx in Giza, in memory of a dream dreamed by this Pharaoh before he ascended the throne of Egypt in 1401 BC. The Pharaoh was a young prince in the era of the modern state and was once fishing on the Giza plateau. When he was tired, he resorted to the Sphinx, which was covered by desert sand and showed only his head, and the Prince was went to sleep. the Sphinx appeared in a dream and promised that he would replace the throne of Egypt, and asked him to remove the accumulated sand after he gets the throne.

Several years later, the prince ascended the throne of Egypt. During the first year of his rule, he ordered this dream to be recorded on a large plate, placed in the hands of the sphinx extending after the removal of sand from the sphinx. Some 1,300 years after the construction of the Sphinx.