Roz bil Shaghria

Name: Roz bil Shaghria (Rice with Vermicelli)
Ingredients: Salt; Water: a little more than the volume of rice; 2 tablespoons oil; 180–250 g (6–8 oz) vermicelli, broken into smallish pieces; 1½ cups (375 g/12 oz) long-grain rice; 120 g (4 oz) chick peas, soaked (optional); 1 onion, finely chopped; 90 g (3 oz) butter

Rice with Vermicelli

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A New Book of Middle Eastern Food

By Claudia Roden

Published 1986

About

A rice and vermicelli dish, eaten in many countries on the second night of the New Year ‘so that one’s employment may be prolonged and multiplied’ like the vermicelli, or, as some say ‘so that one may be prolific and beget many children’. Chick peas are not usually included but they make an interesting addition.

Ingredients

1½ cups (375 g/12 oz) long-grain rice
120

Side dish
Vegetarian
New Year

Method

Wash the rice in boiling water, then rinse in cold water and drain well. Boil the soaked chick peas in a fresh portion of water until very tender (about 1 hour or more, according to their age and quality).

Fry the onion in butter mixed with oil (or in 60 g (