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Haleem Recipe, Learn How to Make Homemade Chicken Haleem Recipe
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
40 mins
Total Time
1 hr
 
Hyderabadi Haleem is a very popular recipe prepared during the period of Ramzan.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: Haleem Recipe
Servings: 8
Calories: 360 kcal
Author: Uppada Lakshmi
Ingredients
Ingredients for Haleem:
  • Chicken – ½ kg. Whole chicken cut into large chunks
  • Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbsp.
  • Turmeric powder – ½ tbsp.
  • Water – 2 glasses
  • Salt – 2 tbsp.
  • Onions -4 no. sliced thin and long
  • Coriander leaves – 1 no. small bunch
  • Mint leaves – 1 no. small bunch
  • White pepper – ½ tbsp.
  • Tasting salt – ½ tbsp.
  • Ghee – 1 tbsp.
  • Lemon – half cut pieces
  • Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp.
  • Oil – to deep fry
Dry Masala Ingredients:
  • Green cardamoms – 5 nos.
  • Bay leaves – 3-4 nos.
  • Cinnamon sticks – 3 nos. 2-inch size
  • Biryani flower – 1 no.
  • Cloves – 2 tbsp.
  • Sayajeera – 1 tbsp.
Pulses:
  • Chana dal – ½ cup
  • Moong dal – ½ cup
  • Toor dal/ yellow lentil – ½ cup
  • Ground Wheat – 2 cups you can substitute with whole wheat, but it takes time to cook
Instructions
How to Make Homemade Chicken Haleem Recipe:
  1. In a pressure cooker add green cardamoms, biryani flower, cinnamon sticks, cloves, bay leaves, ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder, sayajeera, chicken pieces, salt and two glass full water.
  2. Close pressure cooker lid and cook on high flame for first whistle blow and then lower heat for next 2 whistle blows.
  3. In another deep vessel add moong dal, wheat grains, toor dal and chana dal.
  4. Wash all pulses and add 4 glass full water and cook for 20 minutes.
  5. While the cooking process is going on slice onions into thin, long pieces to deep fry.
  6. In a kadai, heat oil and deep fry onions till they attain golden brown color. Keep aside.
  7. Once dal mixture is cooked, mash them with a stick.
  8. Separate chicken and its stock and add this stock to dal mixture and cook further.
  9. If you are using heavy and large vessel you can directly mash chicken.
  10. As this is a homemade haleem recipe, mashing meat becomes hard so with a help of fork, slice into small pieces like a fiber.
  11. Add this again to dal mixture and cook further so that it becomes soft, if needed you can even mash them furthermore.
  12. On another hand, fry cashew nuts to golden brown color, keep aside.
  13. In the same pan, with remaining oil, add sliced coriander and mint leaves.
  14. Once they turn soft, add to Haleem Recipe and mix well.
  15. To enhance flavor add tasting salt, pepper powder and ghee.
  16. Garnish Homemade Chicken Haleem Recipe with cashew nuts and onion pieces.

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