Al Harees Using Oatmeal ghee and Milkio’s Ghee

“HAREES” is a delicious meat based non-veg dish, highly popular in UAE during Ramadan. However, Al Harees using oatmeal ghee is a wonderful Ramadan staple you can cook anytime.

It’s healthy, tasty, and extremely easy to cook. It is a meat-based porridge, which also works as a filler food.

Although almost alike to the Armenian harissa, Al Harees using oatmeal ghee is more of a jellylike dumpling than a mere porridge. Although Al harees was once an ethnic dish specifically at Arab countries, nowadays you can find the food on the menu of some Arabic restaurants in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Middle East Countries.

However, you can try this delicious meat recipe in home. It is a slow cooking process; hence you should choose an oil, which offers the highest smoke point.

By adding oatmeal in it, you can increase its health benefits in a natural savory way. One of the great advantages of cooking Al Harees using oatmeal ghee is your liberty to choose the meat: you can cook Harees with lamb, mutton, beef, as well as with chicken.

Ingredients

• Oatmeal: 3 cups
• 1 small onion: finely chopped
• Cinnamon: 1 small stick
• Water: 1.5 liters (6 cups approximately)
• Salt: as needed
• Black pepper: 1/4^th teaspoon
• Cinnamon powder: 1/2^nd teaspoons
• Milkio’s 100% organic grass fed ghee: 4 tablespoons.
• Meat: chicken/lamb/beef (as opted)

Instructions for cooking

• Take a large pot. Prefer taking a pot that has thick bottom.
• In that large pot, add the meat of your choice.
• Now add sliced onion, cinnamon stick, and water.  
• Bring the mix to boil and cook continuously.
• Let the mix become tender.
• Once done, it is the stock you have prepared.
• Once it gets prepared, keep it aside.
• Remove meat/chicken from the broth and finely chop the meat/chicken.
• Now use a strainer.
• You need to drain the prepared stock into a large pot.  
• Add Milkio 100% organic grass-fed ghee in the pot.
• Let the ghee be heated till it becomes completely translucent.
• Now you can add shredded meat/chicken, the 3 cups of Quaker oats, salt, pepper, and cinnamon in the melted ghee.  
• Keep on stirring using a whisk.  
• Add more water if necessary but in slow process, not at a time.  
• Bring the broth to boil and keep on stirring in every 5 -6 minutes.  
• You may add more boiling water if necessary.  
• You need to cook for about 40-45 minutes.  
• Now you can add 1-2 spoonful Milkio’s organic grass fed Ghee, stir, and then serve the dish.

You have to be attentive while cooking Harees. If you keep on stirring the item in every few minutes there is a fair chance that  it will not get stuck to the pot and get overcooked. The Al Harees using oatmeal ghee is prone to get overcooked easily, so you have to be extra careful.

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Enjoy your Al Harees using Oatmeal ghee and Milkio’s Ghee. It is good for patients suffering from chronic cholesterol and cardio issues.

Why milkio 100% Organic grass-fed ghee is the best for cooking Al Harees Using Oatmeal ghee?

• The Al Harees using oatmeal ghee recipe is done by slow cooking process, which is a specimen of high temperature ghee cooking.   Milkio Ghee offers a higher smoke point and hence it helps in ooking the recipe as a safe oil. 
•  Milkio Ghee is a shelf-stable daity.  You can store the pure New Zealand ghee in your kitchen for the next 18 months from its manufacturing date.
• Milkio ghee is a natural taste enhancer. The ghee helps in improving the  fragrance of the spices better. 

How to buy Milkio 100% organic grass fed ghee?

US customers may buy Milkio Cultured Grass fed ghee from  online portals like Amazon.Com, etc. New Zealand customers may buy Milkio 100% organic grass fed ghee from Milkio E-Commerce.