Chicken mandi is an Arabian dish that is served with rice and mandi sauce and salad. You can take whole chicken or chicken pieces for this recipe. I don’t have whole chicken with skin so I made it with chicken pieces. I will give you the mandi masala recipe and you can make it and save it in a container for future use.
Ingredients Of Chicken Mandi
For Mandi Masala
- 15 gm Whole Coriander
- 15 gm Whole Black Pepper
- 15 gm Fennel seeds
- 2 Star Anise
- 15 gm Whole Cumin
- 6 Black Cardamom
- 8 pieces Small Cardamom
- 4 pieces Cinnamon
- 4 pieces Javitri
For Mandi
- 3 tbsp Mandi Masala
- 2 tbsp Vinegar
- 3 tbsp Lemon Juice
- 2 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste
- 1 tbsp Red Chili Crushed
- 1 tbsp Degi Mirch
- 1 Chicken in pieces or whole with skin
- 3 tbsp Cooking Oil
- 1/2 Onion
- 20 gm Raisins
- 20 gm Cashew
- 6 Green Chili
- Salt (As Needed)
- 600 gm Rice
- water (As Needed)
- 1 tbsp whole cumin
- ¼ tsp Red Food Color
- 1 Ember
- butter (As Needed)
Method Of Chicken Mandi
Directions for Mandi Masala:
In a pan, add whole coriander, whole black pepper, whole fennel seeds, Whole Cumin, Star Anise, Black Cardamoms, Small Cardamoms, Cinnamon, Mace, and cook these for a while. Now add these all ingredients to the grinder and grind them well until they changed into powder form. Mandi Masala is ready.
- Directions for chicken Mandi
- In a bowl, add mandi masala, vinegar, lemon juice, ginger-garlic paste, salt, red chili crushed, degi mirch, and mix them well. The mixture is ready.
- Now, in another bowl, add chicken, above prepared mixture and mix them well, then keep in the refrigerator for 6-8 hours.
- In a bowl add water, rice & soak for 20 minutes 4- In a pan, add cooking oil, onion and cook until light brown
- Now, add raisins, cashew, green chili, whole cumin, water, salt and bring to boil
- Now, add salt, rice and simmer for 10-12 minutes on low flame until the water remains a little
- Put whole or pieces of chicken in a steamer & steam the chicken, You can also bake it or steam in a pot.
- Now, pan roast the chicken by adding some cooking oil to a pan
- Now, in a pot, add rice, roasted chicken, red food color then simmer it for 2-3 minutes
- put a roasted chicken in this pan place the aluminum foil basket in the center of the pot with ember and cooking oil/butter, then cover it for 2 minutes
Your Chicken Mandi now ready to serve