chicken
Chicken is considered a type of meat that people eat widely, due to its delicious taste, wonderful appearance, and the ability to use it in many delicious dishes, in addition to containing many beneficial elements for the human body. The methods of cooking it vary, as it can be boiled or roasted in the oven. And many more. Today we will learn about a dish that can be cooked with chicken, which is mansaf.
How to make mansaf
the ingredients
- Cleaned chicken and cut into four or eight pieces, as desired.
- A kilo of rice.
- Half a kilo of jameed milk.
- A head of onion.
- A cup of vegetable oil.
- Three cloves of garlic.
- Two bay leaves.
- Cinnamon stick.
- One tablespoon of turmeric.
- A teaspoon of black pepper.
- Four cardamom pods.
- Half a teaspoon of ground cardamom.
- Water as needed.
- Table salt as desired.
- Half a teaspoon of mixed spices.
- Half a teaspoon of coriander.
- Two tablespoons of yogurt.
- a tablespoon of starch;
- A tablespoon of paprika.
- A tablespoon of sumac spice.
- A cup of lemonade.
- A piece of hot pepper.
How to prepare
- We choose a deep bowl and put the rice in it with two cups of warm water, half a tablespoon of turmeric, and a tablespoon of salt. It is worth mentioning that salt while soaking the rice helps prevent the rice from breaking during cooking.
- Put a little vegetable oil in a suitable pot, add the onions cut into squares and the hot pepper, and leave them over medium heat until the onions wilt.
- Add the cleaned and chopped chicken, stir well with the onions, and leave it on low heat for ten minutes.
- Add the previously mentioned spices and table salt, stir all the ingredients together well, and leave them for a quarter of an hour on low heat.
- We start adding water gradually to the previous mixture, until the chicken is fully cooked.
- Cut the jameed yogurt into small pieces, put it in a suitable bowl, add two cups of warm water to it, and leave it aside for half an hour.
- Place the jameed milk mixture, two tablespoons of yogurt, two tablespoons of natural lemon juice, and starch in the electric blender for a quarter of an hour, then filter it well.
- We place the boiled chicken pieces in a suitable sized tray, put paprika, sumac, and a little natural lemon juice on them, then put them in the oven at a high temperature until they take on a golden color.
- Add the milk mixture to the well-filtered chicken soup of spices, and put it on high heat until it boils well, and after it boils, leave it on the fire for a quarter of an hour.
- Put the vegetable oil in a suitable pot, add the soaked rice and boiling water to it and leave it on high heat until the rice begins to absorb the water, then reduce the heat.
- Place the rice in a serving dish, top it with the fried chicken, decorate it with nuts as desired, and next to it a bowl of yogurt soup.
