Chicken Mandi (Middle Eastern Dish)

Chicken Mandi (Middle Eastern Dish)

Chicken Mandi is one of the easiest and tastiest Middle Eastern Delicacy. Let's see how we can prepare it.....

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Ingredients

1. Chicken with skin - 1 kg.
2. Basmati rice - 2 cups.
3. Onion sliced - 1 large
4. Garlic and ginger paste – 1 tsp.
5. Mandi spices – 1 ½ tbspn.
6. Butter – 1 tbsp.
7. Salt to taste.
8. 4 cups water
9. Tomato puree  - 1 large 
10. Olive oil.
11. Green Chillies – 5 nos.
12. Whole spices :-

• Cloves – 5-6 nos.
• Black pepper pods – 10 nos.
• Cardamom – 5-6 nos.
• Bay leaves – 2-3 nos.
• Cinnamon sticks – 3 nos.

Methods of Preparation:

1. In large pot add olive oil and onion and fry it until soften.
2. Then add ginger and garlic paste, green chillies, whole spices  and tomatoes puree and cook for few minutes.
3. Add chicken from skin side down and fry for few minutes
4. Add 4 cups of water, 1 tbspn of mandi spice powder and enough amount of salt.
5. Allow the chicken to cook.  Remove the chicken from stock.
6. Mix together with ghee/ butter, mandi spice powder and some salt.  Pour this mixture over the chicken.
7. Preheat the oven at 350 'F. Place the chicken in oven for 5-6 minute then switch the oven to grill mode and let it grill for another 5-6 minutes or until golden.
8. Heat olive oil in a pan and fry basmathi rice.
9. Add the rice and cook it until water dries and then cover it and let it cook on slowest heat.
10. Now our rice cooked nicely. Now comes the special step which makes this dish taste different from rest of the common rice recipes
11. We have to smoke the rice and for doing this let the coal burn to red hot.Put the burning coal over it and add 1 tbsp of oil and cover the lid. Let it smoke for 2 minutes.
12. Now our chicken mandi is ready to serve. Serve it in a large dish with rice and chicken on top of it, along with tomato chutney.
13. Enjoy......!!!!

For making mandi spice mixture;

( for 5 Tbspn. of spice mixture)

Ingredients:

• Green Cardamom – 1 Tbspn.
• Whole cloves – 1 Tbspn.
• Black Pepper corn – 1 Tbspn.
• Nutmeg – ½ Tbspn.
• Mace – 1/2Tbspn.
• Dry Ginger – 1 Tbspn.
• Bay leaves – 2 nos.

Grind the above spices to a smooth powder in a coffee grinder.