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Cooks put oil into a big pot to prepare a nutritious porridge to serve during iftar.

Cooks add broken rice to the broth to make a nutritious porridge that they will serve to thousands of people breaking their fasts in Deira. All photos: Leslie Pableo for The National

Cooks begin to portion up the porridge that they will hand out later in the evening.

Cooks portion up the kanji that they will hand out to fasting Muslims in Deira.

A cook stirs a pot filled with aromatic broth and broken rice to make the kanji.

Spices are mixed together to form the base of the kanji.

Cooks put oil into a big pot to prepare a nutritious porridge to serve during iftar.

Cooks add broken rice to the broth to make a nutritious porridge that they will serve to thousands of people breaking their fasts in Deira. All photos: Leslie Pableo for The National

Cooks begin to portion up the porridge that they will hand out later in the evening.

Cooks portion up the kanji that they will hand out to fasting Muslims in Deira.

A cook stirs a pot filled with aromatic broth and broken rice to make the kanji.

Spices are mixed together to form the base of the kanji.

Cooks put oil into a big pot to prepare a nutritious porridge to serve during iftar.

Meet the cooks that make 3,000 litres of porridge a day for fasting Muslims in Dubai

Prep work starts the night before as chefs’ fine tune ingredients to stay true to original kanji from south India

Ramola Talwar Badam

April 24, 2019

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