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Saudi chicken mandi is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Saudi chicken mandi is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have saudi chicken mandi using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Saudi chicken mandi:
- Get 1 whole chicken spatchcocked or split in half
- Make ready 1 tsp saffron
- Make ready 1 tsp turmeric
- Prepare 2 tsp salt
- Make ready 4 medium red onions
- Prepare 1 tsp Saudi spice blend (see my other recipe for the spice
- Make ready blend mix
- Make ready 3 cups washed basmati rice
- Make ready 2 cinnamon sticks
- Prepare 5 cardamom pods whole
- Make ready 6 whole cloves
- Take half cup of yellow raisins
- Get toasted pine and almonds for decoration
- Prepare 2 bbq or shisha coal
- Get 5 cups water
- Prepare 5 tbps of ghee
Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, saudi chicken mandi. For mine, I'm gonna make it a little bit unique. Saudi chicken mandi is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. Chicken Mandi Homemade Saudi Style Mandi is a traditional dish from Arab Cuisine of meat, rice, and spices.
Steps to make Saudi chicken mandi:
- Mix a little water with the saffron to realese the yellow colour and then mix the saudi spice with the turmeric and saffron to form a paste and rub over the chicken including the inside of the chicken and under the skins
- Cut and dice your onions and on medium heat add 5 tbsp of ghee to a large heavy metal ovenproof saucepan and cook the onions till golden.
- Then add all the whole spices to the onion mixture and mix for 1 mins till spices become fragrant then add 1.5 tsp of salt then the rice and raisins and 5 cups of warm water and mix well
- Add a baking tray like a pizza tray with holes or a wire rack over the pot and place the marinaded chicken on top
- Cook in the oven on gas mark 4 that's 185 on a fan assisted oven for 1hr and 20 mins
- Once cooked place the chicken inside the pot with foil make sum foil cups ane add a little oil and place in the pot between the rice and chicken and then add the coal this should start to smoke be quick place the lid on and over tighly with towel to trap the smoke this will give the chicken and rice a nice smokey flavour.
- Leave the pot for 10 mins to infuse the smoke to give a intense flavour to the dish
- Serve on a large dish and garnish with the toasted nuts and serve with a side of natural yoghurt.
It is also eaten in some gulf nations. It is now very popular in other areas of the Arabian Peninsula, and it is also common in Egypt and Levant and Turkey. Traditionally mandi is found in Yemen, specifically the city of Hadhramaut. It can also be found in the south of Saudi Arabia. Today you will find mandi on the menu in many Middle Eastern countries like Egypt, Turkey and India.
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