How to Cook Tasty Mutton Mandi

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How to Cook Tasty Mutton Mandi Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Mutton Mandi. Arabic Mutton Mandi or Laham Mandi is a traditional meat and rice mandi dish (similar to Kabsa or biryani) from the Middle East and is fondly eaten all over the UAE, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The word Mandi comes from the Arabic word, NADA, it means dew and that's why it reflects the dewy flavor of the meat used in preparing this Laham or Mutton Mandi recipe. For Mandi Spice Mix: In spice mixer,add black peppercorns,nutmeg,mace,dried ginger powder,green cardamom,cloves and grind to make a coarse powder & set aside.

The combination of soft and tender meat with aromatic rice along with the Arabic style Tomato Chutney will make you fall in love with it.

Step B : Marinating the Mutton.

Make markings on the mutton so that masala gets incorporated into the mutton.

You can have Mutton Mandi using 33 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Mutton Mandi

It’s of For Mandi Masala.
Prepare 2 sticks of cinnamon (darchini).
You need of Small piece of nutmeg(jaifal).
Prepare 4/5 of cardamom(hari eilaichi).
You need 2/3 of cloves(loung).
You need 8/10 of black pepper corn(sabut kali mirch).
You need 1 tbsp of dry coriander seeds(sokha dhania).
You need of Mandi Marination.
Prepare 2 kg of Mutton leg.
Prepare 4 tbsp of vinegar(sirka).
Prepare 2 tbsp of white pepper(safaid mirch).
Prepare 1 tbsp of salt.
Prepare 2 tbsp of ginger,garlic paste.
You need 2 tbsp of mandi masala.
Prepare 4 tbsp of oil.
It’s of For Rice.
Prepare 1 kg of Basmati Rice.
Prepare 1/2 cup of oil.
You need 1 stick of cinnamon (darchini).
You need 1 tsp of cumin (safaid zeera).
Prepare 1 tsp of black cumin(kala zeera).
Prepare 4/5 of black pepper corn(sabut kali mirch).
Prepare 2/3 of cloves(loung).
Prepare 2 of star anise(badyan).
Prepare 1 tbsp of ginger,garlic paste.
Prepare 1/2 cup of yoghurt.
It’s 1 of &1/2 tbsp salt.
It’s 1 tbsp of sugar.
You need 8/10 of raisins(kishmish).
It’s 8/10 of almonds(badam).
Prepare leaves of Green chillies, mint.
Prepare of For frying Mandi.
It’s 2 tbsp of butter.

Mix the mandi masala well all over the mutton and marinate for at least one hour.

Step C : Cooking the Mutton and Rice.

Place a large vessel on medium flame and add oil.

When the oil is heated, add the spices (cinnamon, clove, cardamom) Mandi can be homemade too.

Mutton Mandi step by step

First grind all spices of Mandi masala.
Make deep cuts on mutton.
Now marinate mutton with vinegar,white pepper,salt,ginger garlic paste,salt and grind mandi masala.
Massage well cover it and marinate minimum 4/5 hours.
After 4/5 hours put oil in a pot and keep mutton in it.
Fry it 5 minutes then turn it other side.
Now put 1 glass water.cover it and cook 1 hour on slow flame.
After 1 hr turn it other side and cook 1 hr more.
Now again after 1 hr mutton tender nicely now we fry mutton in butter and keep mutton masala a side.
Put mutton mandi on greased oven tray and put some butter on it.
And bake it on preheated oven at 200 °c for 5 minutes.
For rice put oil in degcha.
Add some sliced onion and dry spices and fry well.
Now add ginger garlic paste and fry it until change in golden colour.
Add remaining mandi masala which we keep aside with 1.5 ltr water.
When water boiled add soaked rice and salt in it mix well and cook it on high flame.
When water began to dry up add sugar mix it again cook it until water dry compeletly.
Now add soaked raisins amd almonds in rice.
Now put green chillies and mint leaves on rice and cover it with lid and cook 15 minutes more on low flame.
After 15 minutes rice cooked nicely.
Its time to serve Mutton Mandi.

Even though it's not made like in the traditional mandi style, it'll taste pretty similar to restaurant bought.

Last Friday i made this Mutton mandi recipe, it was a big hit!

Usually, when i make mandi i use chilly powder.

But this recipe is different, no need of chilly powder, and the taste is really close to that of the real mandi.

Try it , you will like for sure.