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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4-6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Ripe Recipes

By Angela Redfern

Published 2010

  • About

This popular Egyptian national dish often - transliterated as koshary or kosheri - will soon become one of your new favourite comfort foods.

Ingredients

Lentils and Rice

  • 1 cup (200 g) green lentils
  • 50 g butter

Method

Cook the lentils.

To prepare the spicy tomato sauce

Place a saucepan over a high heat. Add the oil, garlic and chillies and cook for 3 minutes.

Add the tomatoes, water, vinegar, salt, cumin and paprika. Bring to the boil and lower the heat. Simmer for 30 minutes or