Ashura - The oldest desert in the World

Serving: 12-15 bowls

Ingredients:

• 2 cups uncooked whole grain wheat
• 1 1/2cups canned chickpeas, rinsed and drained
• 1 1/2cups canned navy beans, rinsed and drained
• 1/4 cup uncooked rice
• 1 cup hazelnut
• 1 1/2 cups dried raisin
• 1 1/2 cups dried apricots, cut into chunks
• 1 1/2 cups dried figs (Aphrodisias), cut into chunks
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 tea spoon clove
• a pinch of salt
• 2 lt (or more if needed) of water 
• 2 cups of milk

Preparation:

1. Wash the wheat, put it in the pot, add boiling water and boil it for 10 minutes.
2. Let's filter the yellow water that comes out.
3. Let's do the same process one more time and filter the water.
4. Then add 2 liters of water to it and boil the wheat for 50 minutes.(If you wish, you can boil it twice in the evening, strain the water and then keep it in hot water until the morning. If you soak it overnight, boiling it for 15 minutes will be enough).
5. Chop the dried apricots and dried figs into small pieces.
6. Then, let's take these chopped fruits and raisins into a large bowl, add put hot water and let them wait for 15 minutes. 
7. Let's add a little more hot water to our wheat whose water is decreasing.
8. Let's add the washed rice, cooked chickpeas, boiled beans, finely chopped apricots, figs and raisins to the softened wheat that we boiled for about 50 minutes and let it boil for 15 minutes.
9. Let's take cloves into a small coffee pot and add water and let it boil for 10 minutes.
10. In the meantime, let's add hot water again on our wheat whose water has decreased.
11. Finally, let's add the clove juice, hazelnut, hot milk, sugar, optional salt, and mix it and boil it for about 15-20 minutes.
12. Let's divide our prepared Ashura into glass bowls one by one. We obtained 15 bowls of Ashura with these measurements.
13. When the Ashura bowls start to cool down, you can decorate it with dried figs, hazelnuts, walnuts, pistachios, currants and pomegranate seeds.

Note: There is no set recipe for making Ashura (Noah's ark pudding). There are hundreds, if not thousands, of variations. This is Figarve recipe.

Bon appetit..