Kushari (black)

Ingredients:
• ½ cup balck lentils soaked in water for ½ an hour
• ½ cup rice
• 1 ½ cups water
• 200 grams broiled macaroni and mixed with some oil
• ½ cup broiled chickpeas
• 2 cups tomato juice
• 1 onion thinly sliced
• 2 cloves garlic crushed
• 2 tbls vinegar
• Salt & pepper
• 1 tsp cumin
Method:
Heat a generous amount of oil in a pot, and fry the onions in it. Remove half of them and add 1 ½ cups of water to the rest in the pot, when the water boils add the lentils, and lower heat. When the lentils start to soften add salt, cumin and rice, mix thoroughly. Make sure the water is covering the rice, when it boils lower heat, and cover the pan, leave it to simmer until the rice is done.
For the sauce fry the garlic in some oil, then add the vinegar, when it boils add the tomato juice, and season with salt & pepper. Let it simmer until the sauce thickens.
To assemble the kushari add some lentils at the bottom of the place followed by some macaroni, some of the fried onion reserved earlier, chickpeas then pour some sauce over it.