Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, saudi chicken mandi. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mandi (Arabic: مندي ‎) is a traditional dish originated from Hadhramaut, Yemen, consisting mainly of meat and rice with a special blend of spices, cooked in a pit underground. It's extremely popular and prevalent in most areas of the Arabian Peninsula, and even considered a staple dish in many regions. It's also found in Egypt, the Levant, and Turkey.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have saudi chicken mandi using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Saudi chicken mandi:

1. Make ready 1 whole chicken spatchcocked or split in half
2. Make ready 1 tsp saffron
3. Take 1 tsp turmeric
4. Prepare 2 tsp salt
5. Make ready 4 medium red onions
6. Get 1 tsp Saudi spice blend (see my other recipe for the spice
7. Prepare blend mix
8. Make ready 3 cups washed basmati rice
9. Prepare 2 cinnamon sticks
10. Make ready 5 cardamom pods whole
11. Take 6 whole cloves
12. Prepare half cup of yellow raisins
13. Make ready toasted pine and almonds for decoration
14. Get 2 bbq or shisha coal
15. Make ready 5 cups water
16. Take 5 tbps of ghee

Laham Mandi is one of the traditional dishes of Yemen. It is the most popular food in Saudi Arabia but the people from all over the world love to eat this meal. This dish consists of rice and Mutton. As the world has become a Global Village.

Steps to make Saudi chicken mandi:

1. 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
2. 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.
3. 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
4. Add a baking tray like a pizza tray with holes or a wire rack over the pot and place the marinaded chicken on top
5. Cook in the oven on gas mark 4 that's 185 on a fan assisted oven for 1hr and 20 mins
6. 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.
7. Leave the pot for 10 mins to infuse the smoke to give a intense flavour to the dish
8. Serve on a large dish and garnish with the toasted nuts and serve with a side of natural yoghurt.

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