Mujadara - Lentils with Quinoa
A baked dish of lentils and quinoa with fried onion, garlic, mint and curry spices.
Ingredients
| 250 g | lentils | |
| 200 g | quinoa | |
| 1 head | onion | |
| — | olive oil | |
| 2 cloves | garlic | |
| 2 sprigs / 1 tsp dried | mint | |
| 1 tsp | 5 ml | curry |
| — | salt | |
| optional | hot red pepper |
Instructions
- Rinse the quinoa and boil it in salted water for about 10 minutes. Drain it and let it drain well.
- Boil the lentils until done. Heat the olive oil and fry the finely chopped onion and garlic. Let the vegetables fry for about 1 minute, then add the ground mint and the remaining spices.
- Mix all the products and pour into a suitable baking dish. The mujadara is baked for about 15 minutes in an oven preheated to 180-200 degrees.