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Homemade Mandi Chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Homemade Mandi Chicken is something which I’ve loved my entire 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 components. You can have 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
- Prepare 2 cups rice
- Take 2 onions, sliced
- Prepare 1 tablespoon ghee
- Take 2 tablespoons garlic, minced
- Make ready 1/2 cup lemon juice
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon chili peppers
- Get 5 cardamom pods
- Take 5 cloves
- Make ready 3 cinnamon sticks
- Get 1 teaspoon saffron
- Get salt
Mandi is popular in all Arab countries, and this is the easiest method to make it. Chicken Mandi is a smoky roast chicken and rice dish that is originally from Yemen. Like so many foods of the region, Chicken Mandi is now to be found all over the Middle East, and is just one of many similar rice and meat recipes in the region. You have Maqluba, Chicken Kabsa, Mansaf, just to name a few.
Steps 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.
Chicken Mandi is a very famous Arabic dish. Traditionally, the meat is slow cooked in a tandoor which makes the meat extremely tender and delicious, and served over smoky flavored aromatic rice. 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. Homemade Chicken Mandi Recipe Traditionally the Mandi is cooked in a clay oven built in ground called as (Taboon) mixing together spices and water along with meat.
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