B'tayavon: Koshari

B'tayavon

*Koshari is the traditional Egyptian meal. It’s served in every restaurant, at every dinner table, and sold by any Cairo street vendor. Koshari is a very strange combination of noodles, rice, lentils, fried onions and chili sauce. Don’t be thrown by the ingredient list. For whatever reason this all-in-one meal is addicting. I love traveling…

Lentils with rice and onions

B'tayavon

*My husband and I worked with the youth group at our congregation in Beer Sheva.  The bellies of teenage boys can be bottomless pits so on our youth nights I would often cook lentils and rice; its cheap, easy, and filling. Ingredients 6 tablespoons olive oil 1 large onion, sliced 1 1/3 cups lentils 3/4 cup rice…