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Kuwaiti gereesh

Cracked wheat cooked down with chicken and tomato to a thick porridge under fried onion.

6 servings · 155 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients

Quantities for 6 servings.

  • 500 g Cracked wheat
  • 1.2 kg Chicken, in pieces
  • 4 piece Onions
  • 3 tbsp Tomato paste
  • 3 piece Tomatoes
  • 2 tbsp Baharat spice mix
  • 2 piece Dried lime loomi
  • 100 g Ghee
  • 1 piece Cinnamon stick
  • to taste Salt and pepper

Method

  1. Rinse the cracked wheat and soak it in cold water for an hour.
  2. Fry two of the onions in ghee until soft and add the baharat.
  3. Brown the chicken with the onion and add the tomatoes, tomato paste, cinnamon and pierced dried lime.
  4. Pour in two litres of water, salt it and cook forty minutes, until the chicken is tender.
  5. Lift out the chicken, tip the wheat into the broth and cook it an hour over a low heat.
  6. Mash the porridge until the grain breaks down into a uniform mass.
  7. Fry the remaining onion to deep brown, plate the porridge with the chicken and pour the onion and its butter over.
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