HALEEM RECIPE/HYDERABADI HALEEM RECIPE

Hello everyone!!!!!! I hope you all doing well. Alhumdulillah I'm also fine now. Missed you all and my blog very badly these days. By God's grace and with all your blessings I'm fine and  back to blogging with full of joy and happiness.thank you so much for your love and concern showered on me. I'm really blessed to have people like you in my life. Here I'm with my another yummy recipe,that is popular haleem recipe. Actually I wanted share this recipe in ramzan month, because of some reasons I couldn't share recipes. So, finally here is the recipe.

Haleem is a very popular Hyderabadi dish. It also very popular around the globe. I heared that haleem is available in Hyderabad during ramzan month only. But, don't worry if you want to taste haleem now,then just try this recipe and feel the taste any time you want. It tastes exactly as storebought haleem. You don't need any extra ingredients to make haleem, all ingredients are easily available at home. So, give it a try and let me know how it turned out for you.

Ingredients :

Mutton : 500 grams (boneless or with bones)

Green chillies : 10 to 12

Ginger garlic paste : 3 table spoons

Oil : 1/2 cup/100 ml

Cloves : 4

Cinnamon sticks : 2

Cardamom/elaichi : 4

Turmeric powder : 1/2 tea spoon

Salt to taste

Chopped mint leaves : 1/2 bunch

Chopped coriander leaves : 1/2 bunch

Pure ghee : 250 ml

Broken wheat/daliya : 225 grams

Basmati rice : handful

Chana dal/Bengal gram : 2 table spoons

Moong dal/green gram : 2 table spoons

Masoor dal /red lentils : 2 table spoons

Urad dal/white lentils : 1/4 cup

Toor dal/pigeon pea : 2 table spoons

For haleem masala powder :

Cinnamon sticks : 6 (2 inch size)

Cloves : 1 1/2 tea spoon

Shajeera/black cumin seeds : 1 1/2 tea spoons

Jeera/cumin seeds : 1 tea spoon

Cardamom : 6 to 7

Black pepper corns/kaali mirch : 2 tea spoon

For serving :

Fried onions

Fried nuts

Chopped coriander leaves

Chopped mint leaves

Lemon wedges

Melted ghee

Method :

Take rice and all lentils in a bowl, add broken wheat and wash them well. Now soak it for 2 to 4 hours.

Now pressure cook soaked dals by adding water.  cook for 6 to 8 whistles or Dals turns soft and mushy.

Now add salt to taste, then blend it well with hand blender and keep a side. (if you are using mixer grinder,then allow the mixture to cool completely)

Now take all haleem masala ingredients in a blender, blend into a fine powder and keep a side.

Now heat oil in another pressure cooker or pan,add cinnamon,cloves and cardamom. Then add ginger garlic paste, saute until raw flavors disappear.

Now add mutton pieces and saute for 5 to 6 minutes.

Now add green chillies and saute well.

Now add salt and turmeric powder and haleem masala powder,saute for 5 minutes.

Now add coriander and mint leaves, saute for a while.

Now pour sufficient water and cook until mutton turns soft and mushy. Now remove bones and discard the bones.

Now mash cooked meat well, or you can blend it with blender.

Now add blened mutton to cooked dal and mix it well and put on heat.

Now add ghee and cook for 5 to 10 minutes on high heat and remove from fire.

Now garnish with fried onions,nuts,ghee, coriander and mint leaves and serve hot.

Pictorial :

Take rice and all lentils in a bowl

Add broken wheat

Wash them well

Soak it for 2 to 4 hours

Now take them into a pressure cooker

Pour sufficient water

Cook until everything turns soft and mushy

Now add salt

Mash it or blend it well

Now keep this a side

Now take all haleem masala ingredients, blend into a fine powder and keep a side

Meanwhile,heat oil in a pan add cinnamon,cardamom and cloves

Add ginger garlic paste

Saute until raw flavors disappear

Now add mutton pieces

Saute well

Add green chillies,Saute well

Add turmeric powder and salt

Add haleem masala powder

Saute for 5 minutes

Add mint leaves

Add coriander leaves,saute well

Now Add sufficient water

Cook until mutton turns soft and tender

Now remove bones and discard them

Now mash or blend mutton gravy well

Add blended mutton to cooked lentils

Mix it well

If you have dal masher like this, mash and mix it well on high flame

Mash and mix it well

Pour ghee

Cook for 5 to 10 minutes and remove from fire

Garnish with fried onions,nuts and ghee, serve hot!!!!