Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, homemade mandi chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Homemade Mandi Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Homemade Mandi Chicken is something which I have loved my whole life.
Chicken Mandi is an aromatic Yemeni dish that is popular throughout the Middle East. Big pieces of chicken are cooked in dry roasted whole spices and served over a layer of fragrant basmati rice. The chicken is first boiled with cloves, cinnamon and cardamom until it's perfectly tender and the spiced stock is then used to cook the rice for a full bodied and rich flavor.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook homemade mandi chicken using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade Mandi Chicken:
- Take 1 chicken without skin, chopped
- Make ready 2 cups rice
- Make ready 2 onions, sliced
- Take 1 tablespoon ghee
- Take 2 tablespoons garlic, minced
- Make ready 1/2 cup lemon juice
- Get 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon chili peppers
- Prepare 5 cardamom pods
- Make ready 5 cloves
- Prepare 3 cinnamon sticks
- Get 1 teaspoon saffron
- Get salt
Hot coal is placed on top of the clay oven so that no steam is gone out and all the ingredients are cooked well slowly. This recipe of Chicken Mandi is a traditional Arabic dish which you can now make in a homestyle way to get the same authentic taste like a restaurant. Homemade Mandi Chicken This Yamani dish is prepared with rice, chicken and onions & flavored with saffron, cardamom and cloves. Mandi is a popular rice and meat dish in Yemen and Arab.
Instructions to make Homemade Mandi Chicken:
- After washing the chicken, put in a bowl and marinate it with minced garlic, lemon juice, black pepper, chili pepper and salt. Marinate for 30 minutes.
- Wash the rice, and soak in water for 10 minutes. Then drain and put in a saucepan.
- Fry the onion slices in ghee until golden in color. Add to it the drained rice, and mix for about 5 minutes on medium heat.
- Place the rice and onion mixture in an oven tray. Add 2 cups of water, salt, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, and saffron.
- Cover the tray with aluminum foil, and pierce the foil in several places with a knife. Place the chicken pieces on top of the pierced places of the foil. Cover the chicken and the tray with another layer of aluminum foil, and seal it tightly on all sides.
- Place the tray in the oven, preheated at 150 degrees Celsius, for 1 ½ hours until the chicken and rice are done.
- Arrange the rice in a serving dish with the chicken pieces on top of it.
- Serve hot.
It's scrumptious taste makes it famous in other countries as well. Mandi can be made with chicken or mutton. Here we are going to share Arabian Style Chicken Mandi Recipe. In this recipe, chicken and rice are cooked separately. Chicken is served on bed of rice along with a sauce.
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