How to Prepare Chicken Harees (Arabic Soup)

Every year in the Month of Ramadan all Muslims prepare their own traditional food varieties for Iftar.

during Ramadan we cook variety of kansji/soup/porriage. for iftar

  In Middle East countries especially U.A.E ,Saudi, for Iftar often they use to make their most famous traditional soup  Meat Harees or Chicken Harees with very light spices and less oil.


Harees with Saffron

Chicken Harees  (Arabic Soup)
சிக்கன் ஹரீஸ்  ( அரபிக் நோன்பு கஞ்சி /சூப்)

HOW TO MAKE ARABIC HAREES/HOW TO MAKE CHICKEN HAREES

Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Soaking Time

Serves:  4 Persons

Ingredients

Boneless Chicken cubes  - 200 gram

Whole white wheat or broken wheat - 100 gram

Cinnamon powder - 1/2 tspn

Cumin, Roasted powder - 1 tspn

olive oil 

Butter – 1 tbspn
white pepper pwd - 1/2 tspn

Chopped onion – 1 no

Chopped Garlic – 3 pod

water

 Tempering 

Butter (or) ghee – tspn

Cinnamon powder

Cumin ,Roasted Powder

oilve oil – required qty

Method

Soak wheat over night or (8 to 10 hours)

In a pressure cooker add little butter fry chopped onion, and garlic.

add chicken, soaked wheat and salt toss well.

add water and close the cooker lid keep the flame medium high leave 5 whistles

and keep the flame low and cook for 15 minutes.

Remove from the heat and  blend Harees in blender to a  3/4 coarse paste.

or leave it to cool and grind in a mixie.

Arabic Itftar Menu
Chicken harees
 Dill Leaves Filafel
 White Channa masal vadai
Fruits (Orange, Cherry, Grapes)
 Chikoo dates milk shake

Heat a small pan add butter, cumin and cinnamon fry for half a minute and add immediately to  Harees and mix well.

Transfer them to the serving bowl and add olive oil over the harees

you can make side dish for Harees such as Chicken Baji or Falafil 

Note: You can add burgal or oats instead of wheat.

Arabs use mutton with bones or chicken with bones, here i used boneless Chicken

Very light and healthy porriage/soup

You can use only olive oil also.

 Very Tasty and healthy Harees is ready to serve in Iftar.
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