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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Middle Eastern >> Rest Middle Eastern

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Rinse the rice and drain it. | 2. Heat the 2 tbs olive oil at the bottom of a cooking pot and add the rice, stirring to coat the grains with oil. | 3. When rice is transparent, or after a minute or two, add the garlic. Stir half a minute and add salt and then the 3 cups of boiling water. | 4. Bring it back to a boil, then cover and lower the flame to lowest setting. Cook the rice until the water is evaporated and the rice is tender. | 5. Set aside the rice. | 6. Pick over the lentils and rinse. Simmer them in the water with the bay leaf until they are soft but not mushy, probably 30-40 minutes. You can add more water if they are drying out but need more time to cook. When they are done, drain if there is any leftover water. | 7. Add salt to flavor the lentils when they are done and remove the bay leaf. Set aside. (You can probably do the rice and lentils mostly at the same time). | 8. Slice the onions very thin. | 9. Caramelize the onions in the 2 tbs olive oil, on a very low flame, until they are soft and golden, not brown and crisp. | 10. Add the cumin, cinnamon, salt and pepper to the onions. | 11. Now combine: fluff the rice with a fork. Add the lentils and stir. Stir in some of the onions and perhaps leave some to go on the top. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
white rice	1 1/2	cups		1012.875	221.8612	19.7858	1.8315
olive oil	2	tablespoons		238.68	0.0	0.0	27.0
water	3	cups	boiling	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
garlic clove	2		crushed	-	-	-	-
salt	1 1/2	1/2		-	-	-	-
brown lentil	3/4	cup		-	-	-	-
bay leaf	1			-	-	-	-
water	2	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
olive oil	2	tablespoons		238.68	0.0	0.0	27.0
onion	2			128.0	29.888	3.52	0.32
cumin	1	teaspoon		7.875	0.929	0.374	0.4677
cinnamon	1/4	teaspoon	ground	-	-	-	-
salt				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.