Haleem is very famous street food of South Asia and also prepared at home at special occasions. Its a complete meal full of proteins, carbohydrates and other essential nutrients. It main ingredients are mixture of some grains and meat in proper ratio. Its also a bit spicy in taste. Haleem is usually garnished with specific seasonings before being served.

Preparation time : 3 hrs

Serves : 6 persons

Ingredients Required for Haleem:

For Korma:

• 1 kg beef (boneless small pieces of under cut)
• 1 pack korma masala (of any good brand)
• 2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
• 6 medium size onions (julienne)
• 2 cup oil

For Grain Mixture:

• 750 gm haleem grains mix
• 2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
• 1 pack haleem mix masala(spice) - use any brand
  

For Seasoning:

• 1 cup crispy fried onions
• Ginger (julienne)
• Green Chilies (Chopped)
• Coriander leaves (Chopped)
• Lemon Juice

Cooking Instructions:

Three steps are involved in making haleem namely:

• Preparing Grain Mix
• Preparing Haleem Korma
• Preparing Haleem

1. Preparing Grain Mixture:

Soak haleem grain mix in water for 2-3 hours. Then take a large sauce pan, put all of these grain mix, two jugs of water and ginger garlic paste and let them cook for at least 15 minutes on high flame or until they start boiling. After that add pack of haleem mix and reduce the flame to low and simmer for one hour. Quantity of water may vary according to the size of your pan. Its level should be high enough to completely submerge the lentils so that they do not stick to the pan while cooking. After one hour, the lentils mixture would become lusty and all the added ingredients will become completely tender and soft. Now its time to prepare korma for your haleem.

2. Preparing Korma:

Fry onions in two cups of oil until they turn light brown in color. This would take 10-15 minutes. After that add ginger garlic paste, pack of korma mix, beef and about one liter of water so that all the pieces of beef would dip in the water. At first cook the beef on high flame until water starts to boil. Then reduce the flame and simmer for one hour. When fine thick gravy forms and each piece of meat becomes tender enough such that it can be shredded easily with hands, switch off the flame and let it cool at room temperature. To prepare korma in short time and cut down the overall time required for making haleem, you may use a pressure cooker for this purpose. It would reduce the cooking time of korma to half.

3. Preparing Haleem:

Now take a large sauce pan, add the cooked lentils and beef korma in it and mix using stirring spoon. Using handheld blender or simply immersion blender, gradually mash the beef lentils mixture so that grains and beef would mash and form thick liquid of light brown color. Blend the mixture until all the beef and grain mash completely. Now you are half done as your haleem mixture is ready. Cook the haleem mixture on medium heat with just 2-3 cups of water. Throughout this process every ingredient should mix well together and for this you have to stir continuously while cooking so that it may also not stick to the base of pan. Keep in mind that this is not a quick and easy to make dish as lot of time and effort is involved in making a delicious haleem. Cook until mixture becomes thick so that if you drop it from spoon, it would not drop easily and stick to the spoon.You may adjust the spices at this stage according to your taste. After 20-30 minutes haleem ready ready. Serve the delicious haleem in a platter and sprinkle the seasoning ingredients over it.