Lentils with Rice (Fakorizo)
Cooking time: 1 h
Difficulty: Medium recipe
Recipe yield: 4 serving
Greek Food Recipes
Lentils with Rice (Fakorizo) – A Greek recipe, fakorizo can be served as a side dish or as a warm salad mixed with olive oil and sprinkled with chopped green onions.
Lentils with Rice (Fakorizo) Ingredients
Lentils with Rice (Fakorizo) Recipe
For the recipe for the Greek dish lentils with rice (Fakorizo) rinse the lentils, sort, transfer to a saucepan and cover with water. Put the lentils on the fire and bring the water to a boil. When the water boils, put the lentils on a sieve and let the water drain.
In the pan where the lentils were cooked, fry the finely chopped onion. Add lentils to the onion, pour water so that it only covers the lentils, add tomato paste, salt, pepper and cook over low heat for 10 minutes.
Rinse rice and add to the pan along with cumin, cook for 10-15 minutes, if necessary, add hot water. Fakorizo can be served as a side dish or as a warm salad mixed with olive oil and sprinkled with chopped green onions.
