Khaleeji
Jireesh (Gulf Cracked Wheat with Chicken)
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Jireesh (Gulf Cracked Wheat with Chicken) is Khaleeji home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Rinse the broken wheat and set aside. Heat the ghee in a heavy pot and cook the chopped onion until golden, about 6 minutes.
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Stir in the garlic, baharat and turmeric and cook 1 minute, then add the chicken pieces and sear 5 minutes, turning to coat in the spice.
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Add the chopped tomato and cook 3 minutes, then pour in the water and salt and bring to a boil.
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Cover and simmer 25 minutes until the chicken is tender, then lift the chicken out, shred the meat off the bone and set it aside, discarding the bones.
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Stir the broken wheat into the simmering broth, cover and cook 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the wheat is tender and the porridge has thickened.
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Fold the shredded chicken back in, taste and adjust the salt, scatter with cilantro, and serve warm, a simpler weeknight cousin of harees that keeps its grain rather than beating it smooth.
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Serve it with
A Khaleeji dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Jireesh (Gulf Cracked Wheat with Chicken), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Jireesh (Gulf Cracked Wheat with Chicken) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Chicken Kabsa |
| Gluten | Yes | Bayd bil Tamat (Eggs in Tomato Sauce) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 550 kcal
- Protein
- 30 g
- Carbs
- 45 g
- Fat
- 28 g
- Fiber
- 5 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 640 mg
- Saturated fat
- 13 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Jireesh (Gulf Cracked Wheat with Chicken) takes about 70 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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