mujadara
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Mujaddara ( mujaddarah, with alternative spellings in English majadra, mejadra, moujadara, mudardara, and megadarra) is a dish consisting of cooked lentils together with groats, generally rice, and garnished with sautéed onions. It is especially popular in the Levant.
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- Mujaddara
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- Mujaddara
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- Abbasid Iraq
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- The Levant (Middle East )
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- Rice or bulgur, lentils, onions
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- Mücendra
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Mujaddara ( mujaddarah, with alternative spellings in English majadra, mejadra, moujadara, mudardara, and megadarra) is a dish consisting of cooked lentils together with groats, generally rice, and garnished with sautéed onions. It is especially popular in the Levant.
==Name and origin== Mujaddara is the Arabic word for "pockmarked"; the lentils among the rice resemble pockmarks.