Mandi (food)

Mandi
Chicken Mandi
CourseLunch or dinner
Place of originYemen
Region or stateHadhramaut
Main ingredientsRice, meat (lamb or chicken), saffron and a mixture of Hawaij[1]
A whole chicken suspended above rice and charcoal.
Chicken is suspended in the air and cooked from the steam and heat under it.
A pit made from brick and mortar built for Mandi cooking.
A pit built for mandi

Mandi (Arabic: مندي) is a traditional dish that originated from Hadhramaut, Yemen.[2] consisting mainly of meat and rice with a special blend of spices, cooked in a pit. It is popular and commonly consumed in most areas of the Arabian Peninsula, especially between the Yemeni people, and even considered a staple dish in many regions. It is also found in Egypt, the Levant, Turkey and Southeast Asia.

Homemade mandi from Yemen
Mandi is popular in Kerala by the name Kuzhi Mandi
  1. ^ "Chicken Mandi | Unilever Food Solutions". Archived from the original on 2019-05-09. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  2. ^ Salloum, Habeeb (2012-02-28). Arabian Nights Cookbook: From Lamb Kebabs to Baba Ghanouj, Delicious Homestyle Arabian Cooking. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9781462905249.

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