Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, saudi chicken mandi. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Saudi chicken mandi is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Saudi chicken mandi is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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 whole chicken spatchcocked or split in half
- Make ready saffron
- Take turmeric
- Make ready salt
- Get medium red onions
- Get Saudi spice blend (see my other recipe for the spice
- Make ready blend mix
- Take washed basmati rice
- Prepare cinnamon sticks
- Prepare cardamom pods whole
- Take whole cloves
- Prepare cup of yellow raisins
- Prepare toasted pine and almonds for decoration
- Prepare bbq or shisha coal
- Get water
- Prepare 5 tbps of ghee
Instructions 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.
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