This pilaf is another rare recipe even in our country. So many people don’t know this pilaf, they generally cook tehm seperately, bulgur pilaf near green lentil stew. I love them, but I also love them combined in the form of a pilaf. If you have a kind of stew, this pilaf will be a perfect side dish.
Mercimekli Bulgur Pilavi
Ingredients
• 1 cup bulgur
• ¼ cup green lentil, boiled
• 2 cups water
• 2 green pepper, 1 onion
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tsp black pepper
• 2 tsp salt
• ½ tsp cinnamon
Melt the butter in a pan and add olive oil. Saute chopped green pepper and onion until soft, then add bulgur and boiled green lentil in it. Saute them for 5 minutes until bulgur gets crispy. Then pour water and sprinkle salt, black pepper and cinnamon in it and stir. Cover the pan and bring the heat to the lowest. When all the water’s gone, let it rest.
To serve it, put some in a small bowl and reverse it on a plate. You can garnish it with fresh dill or parsley. And if you have a bowl of homemade yogurt near it, you enjoy it more.
this is a staple dish of the levant( lebanon,syria,palestine,jordan) ..it is also made with rice instead of bulgar..
Nihal- Mersin’de de sık yapılan bir pilavdır bu ama dediğin gibi pekçok kişi bilmez.