Name: Mess of Pottage
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 4 tbsp sunflower oil; 300 g/10½ oz/1½ cups brown lentils, picked of any impurities and rinsed; White Cabbage Salad (to serve); 2 tbsp coarse bulgur wheat (grade 3), rinsed; warm Arabic Bread (to serve); 1 onion, finely chopped; 2 tbsp olive oil; 2 red onions, sliced into thin rings; 1 tsp ground allspice; sea salt

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 40

Appears in

The Jewelled Kitchen

By Bethany Kehdy

Published 2013

About

These days, mujadarah holds a very special place in my heart. Just as Esau, according to the Book of Genesis, traded his birthright away to his brother Jacob for what many believe to have been a form of this “Mess of Pottage”, when I’m stressed and missing home there’s not much I wouldn’t give up for a comforting bowl of this warming lentil stew.