Daawat E Haleem

Daawat e Haleem

Ingredients:

500 gms Clean Goat meat bone-in, cut in 2" size just as cut for Biryani

200 gms Ghee(Clarified butter)

2 large onions thinly slices

10 thai chilies/mirchi sliced

100 gms  whole wheat kernels husked

50 gms barley whole

25 gms bengal grams

25 gms masoor dal(red toor dal)

25 gms moong dal

1 tbsp chilli powder

2 tsps salt

2 tsp turmeric

2 tsps pepper corns

2 tsps cinnamon(around 2" piece)

2 tsp all spice (kabob cheeni, look like a pepper corn with a tail)

2 tsp Shahi jeera

2 tsp cloves(around 5-6)

Kitchen Equipment/Utensils:

A 5-quart pressure cooker, 1 Large sauce pot at least 10 quarts, similar to pasta/biryani pot. A potato masher and blender/mixer.

Cooking Method:

1. In the pot, take 2 Tbsps of Ghee and dry roast half of all whole spices, all lentils along with wheat and Barley, until light golden color and take off into a blender/mixer jar.
2. In the pressure cooker, put 2 Tbsps of Ghee saute half of whole spices (along with chilli and salt), Thai Chillis, Onions until golden brown.
3. Add meat and cook for about 5-6 mins then add 4 Cups water and let it whistle for 8-10 on a really low to medium flame. Make sure the whistles are paced at longer intervals. We a 50 mins cooking time.
4. While the meat is cooking prep the grains. Coarse blend the roasted lentils and whole spices mixture.
5. Bring 8 cups of water to boil, add salt and lentil spice mixture and cook until soft. Stir intermittently.
6. Add remaining half chilli powder, salt and cook until its all gooey and cooked thoroughly.
7. Once the cooker is all cooled, fish the bones from the meat and mash the meat with hand masher just to loosen any remaining bones. DO NOT BLEND. 
8. Add the meat along with remaining water into the lentil cooking pot and let everything cook for another 1 hr on a very low flame and user a masher to stir just like we do for Pav Bhaji. 
9. The resultant should be just like the one shown in pic.
10. Top it off with Fried Onion and Serve Hot. 

Tips:

• You can use another pressure cooker to cook lentils just to fasten the process.
• A potato masher is a must or wooden lentil masher
• For frying onions, Slice a large onion length wise. Dust with all purpose flour and deep fry until crisp.
• If finding lentils a tough situation you can buy Store bought haleem mix packets, but stick to home made spices.