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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.
Chicken Mandi is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Chicken Mandi is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken mandi using 23 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Mandi:
- Get 1 kg Chicken (skin) as you wish cut in 4 pieces
- Get 2 tbsp Whole coriander
- Take 2 tbsp Whole zeera
- Get Clove 10 piece
- Make ready 1 tsp Black pepper
- Get 4 stick Cinnamon
- Prepare 1 piece Black Cardamom
- Make ready 8 pieces Green Cardamom
- Prepare 1 piece Nutmeg
- Prepare 1 tsp Paprika
- Get 1/2 tsp Chaat Masala
- Make ready 1 tsp Ginger Powder
- Get 2 tsp Lemon juice
- Get 2 tsp Oil
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Saffron
- Prepare 2 tbsp Tikka masala
- Take Water as required
- Take For rice
- Get 1 kg Sella rice
- Prepare Onion 1 medium chopped
- Take Green chillies 4 chopped
- Prepare 1 tbsp Mandi masala
Arabian Chicken Mandi is a traditional Yemeni dish and it's very popular among all the Arab countries. The word 'mandi' comes from the Arabic word nada, meaning 'dew', and reflects the moist 'dewy' texture of the meat. The Mandi Masala is a spice mixture made by dry roasting whole spices which give the main flavour to this dish. Mandi, a traditional dish of Yemen made either with chicken or lamb… Mandi is now popular among other Arab countries as well.
Steps to make Chicken Mandi:
- Blend all spices then add lemon juice and oil
- 1/4 cup of water and soak the saffron and mix it blend masala of mandi
- Cut the chicken and apply the MANDI masala on all chicken pieces leave them 3 to 4 hours or over night (Save 1tbsp of Mandi Masala for Rice)
- Prepare the steamer and put the chicken to steam for at least 8 minutes for each side
- Save the water of steamed chicken
- Add 2 tbsp oil then add chicken pieces and shallow fry until nice golden colour on both sides
- Soak rice for 2 to 3 hour's
- Heat the oil then add chopped onion and fry till light golden colour
- Add chopped green chillies and remaining mandi masala fry few seconds
- Add the saved water from steamer for cooking rice if water is less then you can add normal water
- Add soaked rice add salt to taste and simmer then pour into the remaining saffron water put the lid
- Let them simmer until rice are fully done
- Serve in large round dish
- InshaAllah next recipe will be of chaatni served with Mandi
Traditionally, the meat is slow cooked in a tandoor which makes the meat extremely tender and delicious, and served over aromatic rice. Yemeni Chicken Mandi, is aromatic and delicious Yemeni dish. Mandi is popular in all Arab countries, and this is the easiest method to make it. Chicken Mandi Recipe - Easy Arabic Mandi Recipe. Chicken Mandi is a popular fragrant rice recipe in middle east.
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