Dushwari

Ingredients

Dalein
1 cup each Chuna, Moong and Mash dal
(Washed, soaked and boiled)

For meat eaters -
I cup Mutton stock and I cup Mutton meat
Or 1 cup Chicken stock and 1 cup Chicken meat
Meat (boiled and de-boned pieces)

Spices
1 ½ tsp Garem masala
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp Red chil powder
½ tsp Heldi
1 tsp Zeera lightly fried or tarka laga zeera

Curry Vegetables
2 tsp shredded Ginger
3 cloves crushed Garlic
3 chopped Tomatoes
2 chopped purple Onions

Garnish
5 finely chopped Green chilies
2 stems Dheniya leaves
2 lemons, slivered

¾ cup olive oil for cooking
1 cup water


Instructions

1. Soak all dalein separately over night and next morning, boil them all separately.

2. Prepare the meat, by boiling and then de skin from bones, just like for making soup.

3. In a separate pan, fry onions, and prepare the curry masala for the haleem. Add ginger, garlic and tomatoes with all the spices except zeera.

4. In a large cooking pot, mix the curry masala with meat and dalein together with water.

5. Cook on medium for about an hour with lid on. (The trick is having the right consistency and texture of haleem – both meat and the gravy of dalein. In order to maintain a sumptuous well done haleem, keep stirring but do not over stir or over dry, which is why keeping a low medium anch (flame of a gas stove works best) is necessary.)

6. When the curry masala, meat and dalein are well mixed in together and cooked in oil add 1 cup water and again cook on high for half an hour without lid on. Turn of the stove. (To give thickness and tangy flavor, 2 tbsp yogurt can also be put into the cooking haleem.)

7. Remove haleem in a flat glass or corning ware serving dish.

8. In a little oil, fry zeera until it pops.

9. Garnish haleem with zeera, dheniya leaves, chopped green chilies and lemon slivers.

Serve with nan or boiled rice.

Makes for 6-8 people

Note: It is best to store haleem in a covered container in the fridge and since it has meat it in, the left over should be eaten fairly soon – within the next couple of days, before haleem goes bad.

Enjoy!

Aliyish

Instead buy some Shan or National Haleem Masala and follow the instructions why bother !

Dushwari

^ yes, Aliyish,

for the non sugher
shan or national or unshan and non national - all will do!

Dushwari

Aliyish

Seriously if your r working full time u dont have much time on yr hands , so I just opened a shan masala pack , throw it in a cookin pot and live happily instead of buckin the hassle and goin thru me maa's manual , u know wha i mean

SHan baba hum jaysay bohat say bawarchion ki life aashaan bana gay hain . Allah unhain jaanat day Ameen !

Mostar95

Well shan and other masalas are good but your own way of cooking is the best and is a hobby for many people (me too), so let them what they want to do.

Aliyish

well you r rite but i find me way bit handy thatz it no hard feelings

Ask99

I want some Haleem:yummy in my tummy

Dushwari

when you cook for your family and friends, it gives one of the most rewarding feeling of being liked and accepted for a skill that you have.

Dushwari

Mostar95

A sham masala dish can never be as tasty as the dish cooked by an expert home cook with her/his recepie.

mizzrani

oh yes it can it can b more tasty , shan masaley rock.

NaTaLia

trust me home made haleem is MUCH better than SHAN/NATIONAL haleem...its taste is very weird

SaadiaB

what about grain ? it should be cooked with daals and then mashed in a mixing machine, it gives the thickness to the haleem, cannot imagine haleem without it.

TLK

The only way left to show your sughrapa is to avoid using Shan and National.

Gori ladies must be really sugher, then. They dont use Shan and National

Dushwari

tk,

are you comparing home made with deba food
sugher with unsugher
& although there was no mention of a particular ethnicity of females
so the contest of caucasians is ill founded.
u dont believe in uncomplicated home made haleem?
i suggest make some your self without thinking about genders.
best,
Dushwari

Aliyish

Oh so that word was Suughaaar . Geeee, I was wondering why did she call me sugar !

Aliyish

I dont like Haleem anyway , i wud go for that Kichraa thing ( sort of haleem but i guess u put rice in it as well) me mom make .

Aliyish

it might does , but most of other SHan masalaz like curry , kofta , jalferazi , pasanday do the job well .

I bet atleast a man cudnt figure out the difference between a curry made with shan spices and one with home made stuff .

Cud ya Tariq Bahi ?

Mostar95

Yes people can differentiate only if the home made recepie is from a good cook.

Mostar95

Shan ka qorma mera qormay ka muqabla nahee kursakta.

Aliyish

Tu kab khilaa rahay ho Mos?