Haleem Recipe

Cook, eat and celebrate your own connections with trees: Lemon, Mace,

Cinnamon, Cloves, Bay.

Ingredients

- 1 pkt special mix – Haleem (containing many spices including mace, cinnamon, cloves and bay leaves) with pulses

- 1 kg boneless chopped chicken

- 10 glasses of water

- 1 cup oil

- 2 onions, sliced

- ¼ fresh ginger, chopped

- ¼ bunch coriander, chopped

- 1 fresh lemon, sliced

Instructions:

• Soak the pulses for 2-3 hours, though best soaked overnight

• Fry the onions and put to one side

• Heat 1 cup oil and add washed chicken. Cook for 10 mins.

• Add drained pulses and spices from packet. Cook for 5 mins on medium heat.

• Add 10 glasses of water and cook on medium heat, stirring now and then. Cook until most of the water has been absorbed.

• When you can see pulses and chicken is cooked with not much water left in the pan, blend with a hand blender so that no lumps of chicken are visible.

• Cook for a few minutes and then take off the gas.

• Garnish with coriander, onions, ginger, lemon and green chillies to taste.

Recipe written by members of the Awaz Utaoh Group