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Lentils and Rice recipe

How to cook Lentils and Rice. This is a popular healthy recipe. I have to admit I really only enjoy vegetarian food if I can have a bit of meat with it, but this recipe is completely perfect in its own right, so you don’t have to try and improve it by adding sausages, chicken or pork chops unless you really want to . Here are ingredients and easy directions:

LENTILS AND RICE RECIPE

INGREDIENTS :

6 oz (150 g) basmati rice
6 oz (150 g) brown or green lentils or yellow split peas
2 onions
Mushrooms
3/4 tsp cumin seeds
3/4 tsp turmeric
3/4 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp sugar
Olive oil
Vegetable oil
11/4 pints (approx 750 ml) water
2 eggs
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Salt & pepper

DIRECTIONS :

Soak the lentils in cold water overnight. Rinse the soaked lentils or yellow split peas thoroughly then put them in a pan with approximately 11/4 pints (750 ml) of cold water, bring to the boil and simmer gently for about 25 minutes until the lentils are soft. (Don’t strain the water away.)
Warm a very large pan on the hob and toast the cumin seeds for a minute until you start to smell the flavour coming offthem (don’t let them burn) then add some olive oil to the pan followed by the cinnamon, turmeric and rice.
Stir well and make sure the rice is coated with the oil and spices.
Add the cooked lentils and their water to the pan with the rice, season with salt and pepper, bring to the boil, cover and simmer very gently over a low heat for about 20 minutes or until the rice is done.
Meanwhile, put the eggs into the pan to cook with the rice for 10 minutes then remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
While you’re waiting for the rice to cook warm some vegetable oil in a small pan then stir in the sugar. As soon as the oil is darker in colour, add the onions and cook for a few minutes until they’re golden, or just the way you like them, then add the mushrooms and cook for another couple of minutes.
As soon as the rice is cooked take the pan off the heat and if you think there’s still a little too much liquid strain some away.
Mix the onions and mushrooms with the rice and lentils and garnish with the chopped hard-boiled eggs, sliced tomatoes and cucumber.

Follow this directions carefully. Hope you like this simple recipe and Bon Apetit.

This Chinese easy rice egg fried recipe makes a great accompaniment to many dishes. More recipes at www.recipes-of-chinese.com

Delicious Dinner Recipes
Looking to host a dinner party and are you in search of some easy dinner party recipes? Just read this article and you will get some helpful ideas what to make for dinner party.

A dinner party is a party in which you meet your relatives as well as friends. The most important aspect of every dinner party is the recipe. The food and drinks should match with the theme and style of the party. It would be easy for you to choose the recipe menu if you are aware of your guest's taste buds.

Below you will find few recipes which can become part of your dinner menu.

Chicken with Asparagus:

The recipe given below is an authentic European style and thus can be prepared very soon.

For making this recipe, you will need the following things:

1/2 cup chicken broth, 1 pound boned and skinned chicken breast halves, 1/2 pound fresh asparagus, 1 jar roasted red peppers, 1 clove garlic, 1/2 cup chopped tomatoes, 1 tsp balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper to taste.

How to prepare:

You can begin with heating the broth in a large skillet on medium heat. Season the chicken with salt plus pepper and place it on the skillet. Cook for around 15 minutes till the chicken is cooked well. Add red peppers, asparagus and garlic to the skillet. Cook for 10 minutes till the chicken juices run clear and asparagus becomes tender. Put the tomatoes in skillet during last 2 minutes of cook time. Sprinkle vinegar and you can top with mozzarella cheese before serving.

Baked Potato:

For making the baked potato, you will require:

1 medium sized potato, 1 tsp olive oil, 1/2 tsp salt, 2 tsp butter, 1 pinch ground black pepper plus 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese

Directions:

Clean the potato and pierce the skin with either a fork or knife. Meanwhile preheat your oven to 300 degreesF. Apply olive oil and salt over the skin of the potato. Put the potato in the oven and bake for 90 minutes until the potato is golden brown and soft. Slice the potato down the center and serve with butter and black pepper. Thus, your tasty baked potato is ready to eat. Sprinkle little shredded cheddar cheese over the top of the potato for more enhanced taste.

Thus, you can try the above given two recipes by making some alternate options or modifications in the ingredients if desired. I hope this write up will help you in making some scrumptious dishes without much effort.

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Filipino Foods And Recipes

People of the Philippines loves to eat. Cooking style and ingredients included with it have upgraded over several centuries from its Austronesian origins to a mixed cuisine with many Hispanic, Chinese, American, and other Asian influences adapted to indigenous ingredients and the local palate. This kind of influence from other countries resulted to many delectable and delicious Filipino recipes.

Like other countries in Asia, Philippines is a heavy rice eating country. Rice is always served steamed during meals. Leftover rice is often fried with garlic to make sinangag, which is usually served at breakfast together with a fried egg and cured meat or sausages. In some regions, rice is combined with salt, condensed milk, cocoa, or coffee.

Filipinos do have many terms prior to their cooking style.

Below are some of the most popular ones.

* Adobo or Inadobo – cooked in vinegar, oil, garlic and soy sauce. It could also refer to just roasting on a wok, with light oil, garlic and salt. The most famous form or example of it is the chicken adobo.

* Binagoongan or With Bagoong – cooked with fermented fish paste bagoong. Bagoong have strong odors which may be offensive to those unaccustomed to them. But this is what I can tell, bagoong taste really good and is good much with green mangoes as well.

* Guinataan/sa Gata – cooked with coconut milk. Often times, it includes chili as well. Perfect example for this kind of cooking is the famous Bicol express.

* Guisa/Guisado/Ginisa” or “Gisado” – saut?ed with garlic, onions and/or tomatoes. The most common and easiest Filipino cooking style.

Above cooking terms are some of the many terms Philippine people use to describe their way of cooking. Although there are so many kinds, types and processes, one thing is common in the way Filipino cooks foods, Filipino do cook with heart. Meaning, all the dish being prepared are absolutely done with quality taste and finest ingredients as well.

Beef caldereta is a very popular Filipino dish. Visit www.pinoy-recipes.com for more mouth watering Pinoy recipe. I have heard some of my friends saying that they like "my" caldereta. I want to mention my dear friend Alex specifically. She is the reason why I made this video recipe. Alex vakla! This Pinoy recipe of caldereta is dedicated for you. I hope you like it. But anyway, beef caldereta is a Pinoy recipe that is very easy to make but takes quite some time. When I was in the Philippines, my average cooking time to make this is 2 to 3 hours. And again everybody has their own recipe for this particular dish. Most people will put some vegetables in it like potatoes and carrots, but I don't. If I want some potatoes, I would cook it separately and serve it on the side. But anyway, you can put vegetables if you want to. I am pretty sure it will turn out to be delicious. One very important ingredient on this Pinoy recipe is the liver spread. I used the Reno brand when I was still in the Philippines but I couldn't find it here. So I used the liver pate that was available at the Asian grocery store. You can also use homemade chicken liver if you have chicken liver. Just boil it in water, drain the water, and then crush it. And speaking of homemade, you can make everything homemade. I got that tip from Mama. Please check out http for more information about making everything homemade. As for the meat, you can use goat meat or chicken. I don't know if you can use pork but you ...