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Jareesh

Cracked wheat cooked with meat to a thick porridge, under fried onion.

6 servings · 170 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients

Quantities for 6 servings.

  • 400 g Cracked wheat, soaked two hours
  • 800 g Lamb on the bone
  • 3 piece Onions
  • 3 piece Tomatoes
  • 200 ml Yoghurt
  • 2 tsp Baharat
  • 2 piece Dried lime
  • 80 g Ghee
  • to taste Salt and pepper

Method

  1. Soak the cracked wheat in cold water for two hours and rinse it.
  2. Fry one onion in ghee, add the meat and brown it.
  3. Add the tomatoes, baharat and pierced limes, cover with water and cook forty minutes.
  4. Add the wheat, top up with water two fingers above and cook ninety minutes on a low heat, stirring.
  5. Remove the bones, stir in the yoghurt and beat the porridge with a spoon or a mixer until creamy and uniform.
  6. Fry the remaining onion dark brown and spoon it over the jareesh with its oil.
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