"Harisa" redirects here. For the hot pepper paste, see
Harissa.
This article is about the Emirati dish. For the Maghrebi sauce, see
Harissa. For the semolina-based dessert, see
Basbousa.
Armenian and Middle Eastern cracked wheat and meat porridge
Harees, jareesh (Arabic: هريس), boko boko, or harisa (Armenian: հարիսա, romanized: harisa) is a dish of boiled, cracked, or coarsely-ground cracked wheat or bulgur, mixed with meat and seasoned.[1] Its consistency varies between a porridge and a gruel. Harees is a popular dish known throughout Armenia where it is served on Easter day, and the Arab world, where it is commonly eaten in Arab states of the Persian Gulf in the month of Ramadan, and in Iraq, Lebanon and Bahrain during Ashura by Shia Muslims.