(For all ingredients, please use organic versions if available)
2 cups red lentils
1½ cups fine bulgur
3 large onions
6 green onions
Half bunch of parsley
Tomato purée or paste
Chili flakes
Cumin
Salt
Olive oil
4 cups water
Served with salad and pickles
Directions (to make the red lentils):
- Turn the stovetop on to medium heat
- Fill the pan with 4 glasses of water
- Add the red lentils
- Stirring to check the red lentils
- After the red lentils are nicely cooked add 1 ½ glassfuls of fine bulgur into the cooked red lentilschop the onion bulbs
- Mix them (do not useadditional water)
- Close a lid on top and allow them to cook for a while
- Adding the olive oil into other the pan
- Sauté the chopped onion to light pink
Directions (to preparing the salad):
- Chop the green onions
- Chop the parsley very finely
- Covering plate with the lettuce leaves
- Put tomatoes and other ingredients in between
- Chop the cucumber
Directions (to make red lentil patties):- Add sauted onion into the cooked red lentil
- Allow it to cool down for a while before kneading
- Add tomato pasteor pured tomatoes
- Add the chili flakes
- Add the cumin
- Add the salt
- Add the parsley and green onions
- Knead all the ingredients which you have mixed together
- It is a sticky mass now quite workable. Knead the mixture and form into patties like meatballs
And allow them to cool down for a while
- Make the patties and place them top of the salad
- Ready to serve (they are served cold)