Jireesh Kuwaiti
Crushed wheat cooked with chicken until creamy.
Ingredients
- 2 cups Crushed wheat
- 1 kg Chicken
- 3 Onions
- 2 tbsp Tomato paste
- 1 tbsp Baharat spice mix
- 1 Cinnamon stick
- 5 tbsp Ghee
- 2 tsp Salt
- 8 cups Water
Method
- Soak the wheat — Rinse and soak the crushed wheat for 2 hours.
- Cook the chicken — Simmer with one onion, cinnamon, baharat and salt for 45 minutes, then shred it.
- Add the wheat — Stir into the broth and cook gently 1½ hours, stirring often so it does not catch.
- Beat — Whisk hard until creamy, returning the shredded chicken.
- Brown the onions — Fry the remaining onions in ghee until dark.
- Jireesh is ready — Top with the browned onions and their ghee.