Cooking (second try)

I am improving my cooking skills. In this second try the rice look like rice (little burn) and I cannot reach the amazing flavor that my mom has, but this one still eatable. Maybe later... 

Ingredients

Fry the onion

Put in the microwave the lentils, check them because
 sometimes they jump outside the cup making a big mess.

This time I didn´t wash the rice, but I put more oil than the needed so
I never heard the popcorn sound again (look recipie at blog) 

I noticed that it started to change color so I spill the water,
lentils and onion inside, before rice burn.

Wait until it looks like this
Yei!! It looks like rice... darker but rice, no risoto =D

This is how it looked. I have to admit that the first one tasted much better, this one look good,
but I will be trying until get the perfect jadra.

First try of cooking jadra

As a international student I have to confess that never in my life before I cooked something different than cereal, eggs and sandwich, so... 

This is the story of my first try for preparing my favorite dish that my mom sometimes cooks especially for me.

First you have to fry onions, until they are black

Take the onions out, fry the rice and wait until it starts sounding as popcorn. When you hear that sweet sound is the time to add the lentils (previous blended at the microwave), 3 cups of water per one of rice and the black onion.

 Put low fire and wait until there is no more water... Enjoy.

    








In my experience... It smells the same than my moms but the texture, view and flavour is different. Maybe is because I   didn´t follow exactly the recipe. I washed the rice (reason for not hearing the sound) and I didn´t count the water I add hahahaha.
It looks as rissoto, have a good taste but it had a lot of oil and it didn´t worked. But it was etable =D
I was cooking with some friends (Thanks God!)
One of them helped me for make my jadra look good as the picture below.

This is the first try of many until I get the flavourand the view that this recipe should have.         

 It was a pleasure trying, I had a lot of fun and I´m starting to discover that I love cooking but I need lots of practice =D

If I achieve this dish I promise to upload pictures.