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Cuisine: Arabic
Category: Levant
Serves: 6 persons
Difficulty: Easy
Cost: Cheap
Preparation time : 30 minutes
Cooking time : 1 hour
Ingredients
8 cups water or 2 liters
1½ cups lentil or 250 g, green, cooked
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 large onion or 200 g, finely chopped
400 g minced beef
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
2 cubes MAGGI® Chicken Bouillon or 20 g
½ cup water or 125 ml, hot
1 medium carrot or 100 g, grated
1 cup raisins or 100 g
2 cups basmati rice or 400 g
3 tablespoons butter
1 medium onion or 120 g, sliced & fried, optional garnish
Preparation
Boil lentils in 1000ml of Water until ¾ cooked, drain and set aside.
Heat vegetable oil, sauté chopped Onions, minced Meat until meat is cooked. Add Cinnamon and MAGGI® Chicken Bouillon , water and simmer for 5 minutes.
Add Carrots, Lentils and Raisins to the mix, and remove from heat.
Boil Rice for 10 to 15 minutes in remaining 1000ml water until ¾ cooked (al dente), drain and set aside.
Melt butter on the bottom of a rice pot, place 1/3 of the rice on top, layer half of the meat mixture, layer another 1/3 rice, the remaining meat mixture and cover with remaining 1/3 of the rice. Cover and cook for 20-30 minutes until rice is cooked.
Garnish with fried onions and serve hot.
Nutritional Information Per Portion of 300g
Energy : 700.00 Kcal
Protein : 36.00 g
Carbohydrate : 101.00 g
Fats : 20.00 g
Adopted from Nestle Family
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