🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Jareesh
A Najdi heirloom from the wheat towns of central Arabia, stirred patiently until the grain surrenders — Ramadan tables rarely go without it.
🔪 Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 90 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Cracked wheat cooked down with chicken and laban into a savory porridge, sharpened with loomi and finished with fried onion and black lime dust.
Ingredients
- 400 gjareesh (cracked wheat), soaked
- 1 chicken, quartered
- 500 mllaban (yogurt drink) or yogurt
- 2 onions
- 2 dried limes (loomi)
- 1 tspcumin and black pepper
- 3 tbspghee
Method
- 1
Simmer the chicken with one onion and the loomi into a rich broth; lift out and shred the meat.
- 2
Cook the soaked jareesh in the broth, stirring often, until thick and tender — about an hour.
- 3
Stir in the laban and shredded chicken and beat until creamy.
- 4
Fry the second onion in ghee until deep brown and pour it, sizzling, on top with a dust of ground loomi.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6