A South Indian cucumber in yogurt preparation and a Middle Eastern rice and lentil pilaf make for strange bedfellows (or I should say table fellows), don’t they? In reality they pair up extremely well.
But first, what is Mujadara?
Mujadara (also called moujadara, mejadra, mjadra, etc) is a lentil and caramelized onion pilaf (pulav/ pulao in India) made with either rice or broken wheat. Either