Haleem
- Women`s Corner
- September 5, 2022
The recipe has two parts . First part involves cooking of meat and grains separately and the last part is mixing of these two.
Ingredients :
- 1 kg meat ( Beef/ mutton)
- 1/2 cup whole wheat ( 1/4 th cup is whole and 1/4 th cup is broken)
- 1/4 th cup urad/ mashkolai daal ( without skin)
- 1/4 th cup moog daal / yellow lentil
- 1/4 th cup moosur daal/ red lentil
- 1/4 th cup split Bengal gram/ yellow split pea/ chola/ chana daal
For the meat :
- 3/4 th cup onion paste
- 1 and half tbl spoon ginger paste
- 2 tea spoon garlic paste
- 1 tea spoon turmeric
- 2 tea spoon red chili powder
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- 1/2 tea spoon coriander powder
- 1 cinnamon stick ( 2″ long)
- 4/5 green cardamom
- 2 Bay leaves
- 9/10 cloves
- 2 tea spoon garam masala powder
- Oil
- Salt to taste
Ingredients for daal :
- 2 tea spoon ginger paste
- 2 tea spoon garlic paste
- 1 level tea spoon turmeric powder
- Salt to taste
Other ingredients :
- 1 cup of thinly sliced onion to make bereshta
- 2 tbl spoon ghee
- oil
- Julian cut ginger , mint for garnishing
- 1-2 tbl spoon Haleem masala
Haleem Masala:
- 4/5 dried red chili
- 1 tbl spoon cumin ( jeera)
- 1 tbl spoon whole coriander ( dhonia)
- 4/5 Black cardamom
- 2/3 green cardamom
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- 1 tea spoon black pepper
- 10/12 cloves
- 1 tea spoon fennel ( sauf)
- 1/2 tea spoon nigella/ black cumin/ kalo jeera
- 1/2 tea spoon fenugreek or methi
- 1/2 tea spoon nutmeg/ mace ( jaifol -javetri)
Dry roast all the ingredients and then grind into a fine powder . Try to dry roast chili and cumin separately . The chilies should not be dark and the cumin should be dry roasted longer than other ingredients so that the full flavor can be achieved . Try not to dry roast black pepper .
Method: Soak all the daals and 1/4 th cup whole wheat in water for at least 5/6 hours . Save the remaining 1/4 th of broken wheat to use later on. Cook the meat with all the ingredients for meat regular way . Take out all the whole spices. Drain out the water from the grains and boil with enough water.
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When the grains are almost boiled but there is enough water in the daal ,add the broken wheat, turmeric powder , salt green cardamom . Cook further stirring occasionally , until everything becomes mushy , sticky and blended . Add the Meat into the grain. Cook. Add the Haleem masala . Add 2 tbl spoon of ghee into it. Heat enough oil and fry the sliced onion until golden brown( bereshta) . Add the onion and some oil into the haleem. Garnish with sliced ginger , mint, slice of lemon and bereshta .
Serve hot !!
Notes: Don’t use chopped cilantro while garnishing or in the haleem . It’s the mint , bereshta and sliced ginger that enhances the taste. After adding the broken wheat , stir frequently otherwise they will form lump .
This recipe is taken from https://www.helloworldmagazine.com/
