Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, saudi chicken mandi. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mandi (Arabic: مندي ) is a traditional dish originated from Hadhramaut, Yemen, consisting mainly of meat and rice with a special blend of spices, cooked in a pit underground. It's extremely popular and prevalent in most areas of the Arabian Peninsula, and even considered a staple dish in many regions. It's also found in Egypt, the Levant, and Turkey.
Saudi chicken mandi is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Saudi chicken mandi is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook saudi chicken mandi using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Saudi chicken mandi:
- Take 1 whole chicken spatchcocked or split in half
- Make ready 1 tsp saffron
- Take 1 tsp turmeric
- Prepare 2 tsp salt
- Take 4 medium red onions
- Prepare 1 tsp Saudi spice blend (see my other recipe for the spice
- Take blend mix
- Make ready 3 cups washed basmati rice
- Make ready 2 cinnamon sticks
- Take 5 cardamom pods whole
- Take 6 whole cloves
- Make ready half cup of yellow raisins
- Take toasted pine and almonds for decoration
- Take 2 bbq or shisha coal
- Take 5 cups water
- Take 5 tbps of ghee
The Mandi Masala is a spice mixture made by dry roasting whole spices which give the main flavour to this dish. Mandi is a delicious combination of rice, chicken and a. Saudi Mandi If you visit to Saudi Arabia, for Haji or Umrah don't forget to try the traditional Kabsa, the main meal in the country. There is many variant of Kabsa such Mandi, Madhbi, Madfouna, Madhghoot most of them differ from the way to prepare the chicken or meat and the rice is different.
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.
Today I teach you Saudi Arabia Kabsa Recipe in my Benazir's Kitchen. Kabsa is a traditional Saudi dish. Cook chicken with rice main course dish that is popular not just in Saudi Arabia but across the Arab world. Kabsa recipe is chicken that is slowly simmered in a spicy broth of tomatoes and spices. After chicken is removed and fried or grilled for golden color and crispy.
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