Saudi Mandi
Saudi Mandi

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, saudi mandi. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Saudi Mandi is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Saudi Mandi is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have saudi mandi using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Saudi Mandi:
  1. Get large whole chickens (1300g) chopped in half
  2. Get Spice blend of salt, black pepper
  3. Take Tumeric and ground coriander
  4. Make ready saffron
  5. Prepare warm water
  6. Get basmati sella rice only rinsed not soaked
  7. Make ready reduced salt chicken stock (cold)
  8. Make ready Whole spices wrapped in cheese cloth
  9. Prepare Black pepper, coriander seeds
  10. Make ready Cinnamon sticks, star anise, cardamom
  11. Make ready Cloves, dried lemon
  12. Make ready Salt
  13. Make ready charcoal for smoking fragrance
Instructions to make Saudi Mandi:
  1. You need a heavy 7 qt pot, heavy duty foil and oven set to 200 C
  2. In a small bowl, soak the saffron in the warm water and allow it to cool
  3. Mix the spice blend with saffron then lather the chicken with it, inside and out. Allow the chicken to marinade 30 min outside or for up to 24 hr in the fridge
  4. In the pot, add the washed rice, stock, the whole spice pouch and salt
  5. Cover by a double sheet of foil while making sure the foil is concaved downward. Cut slits in the foil enough without comprising its integrity
  6. Lay the half chickens skin side up on top the foil then cover the whole thing tightly with 3 to 4 layers of foil. No room for steam to leak
  7. Bake in the oven for 90 min. Start the charcoal in the last 10 min
  8. Remove from the oven and uncover the foil. Put it back in the turned off oven.
  9. Shape a small piece of foil to hold the charcoal. Set it in the oven. Add some oil then quickly add the hot charcoal and close the oven door for 5 min
  10. You can serve it right away or chuck the chicken under a broiler for some color
  11. Serve in a big round plate and enjoy

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