Rice dishes
Mujadara with crispy onions & tomato salad
The Middle Eastern comfort classic: brown lentils and rice cooked with cumin, piled with sweet, crispy fried onions and served with a fresh tomato salad.
- 60 min · 20 min hands-on
- Serves 4
- Large saucepan with lid, large frying pan, slotted spoon
- No listed allergen ingredients
- Vegan
- Complete meal
One serve gives you
Daily needs: Female 31–50- Protein 20 g · 15%
- Carbs 71 g · 56%
- Fat 17 g · 28%
- Fibre 13 g
Highest in this recipe
Black shows one serve; the rest of each bar is left for the day. * Partial ingredient data.
Ingredients
Weights for 4 servings. Per-serve nutrition stays the same.
- 700 g
- 50 g
- 200 g
- 1,000 g
- 200 g
- 4 g
- 1 g
- 2.5 g
- 1 g
- 250 g
- 200 g
- 15 g
- 25 g
- 10 g
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Method
5 steps · about 60 min- Heat the 50 g olive oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Cook the onions for 30–35 minutes, stirring often and more frequently towards the end, until deep golden-brown and crisp at the edges. Lift a third of them onto paper towel to stay crisp for serving.
- Meanwhile, put the lentils and 700 g of the water in a large saucepan, bring to the boil and simmer for 15 minutes until just starting to soften.
- Add the rice, the remaining 300 g water, the cumin, cinnamon, iodised salt, pepper and the two-thirds of onions still in the pan (with their oil). Bring back to the boil, then cover and cook on the lowest heat for 18–20 minutes until the rice and lentils are tender and the water is absorbed.
- Turn off the heat and leave covered for 10 minutes, then fluff with a fork. Meanwhile, toss the tomatoes, cucumber and parsley with the lemon juice and extra-virgin olive oil.
- Pile the mujadara onto plates, top with the reserved crispy onions and serve with the salad.
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One serve gives you
Daily needs: Female 31–50- Protein 20 g · 15%
- Carbs 71 g · 56%
- Fat 17 g · 28%
- Fibre 13 g
Highest in this recipe
Black shows one serve; the rest of each bar is left for the day. * Partial ingredient data.
Calculation limitations
- Further heating in this recipe is not covered by the food record or a reviewed cooking factor. Reported contributions remain estimates.
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- Brown onions, halved and thinly sliced: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Olive oil: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Brown lentils, rinsed: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Water: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Long-grain white rice, rinsed: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Ground cumin: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Ground cinnamon: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Iodised salt: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Ground black pepper: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Tomatoes, diced: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Lebanese cucumber, diced: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Flat-leaf parsley, chopped: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Lemon juice: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Extra-virgin olive oil for the salad: Whole-recipe edible weight.
AFCD attribution, data & methods
Food matches used for nutrition
- Brown onions, halved and thinly sliced: Onion, mature, brown skinned, peeled, raw
- Olive oil: Oil, olive
- Brown lentils, rinsed: Lentil, hulled, dry
- Water: Water, tap
- Long-grain white rice, rinsed: Rice, white, uncooked
- Ground cumin: Cumin (cummin) seed, dried, ground
- Ground cinnamon: Cinnamon, dried, ground
- Iodised salt: Salt, table, iodised
- Ground black pepper: Pepper, black, ground
- Tomatoes, diced: Tomato, common, raw
- Lebanese cucumber, diced: Cucumber, Lebanese, unpeeled, raw
- Flat-leaf parsley, chopped: Parsley, continental, fresh, raw
- Lemon juice: Juice, lemon
- Extra-virgin olive oil for the salad: Oil, olive