Tahchin (Saffron rice with Chicken)
Tahchin (Saffron rice with Chicken)

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, tahchin (saffron rice with chicken). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Iman Zarei is working on his PhD in Human Nutrition at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. He joined the Grain Quality and Nutrition Center of the. Tahchin (Persian: ته چین‎), also spelled as tah chin or tah-chin, is an Iranian rice cake primarily consisting of rice, yogurt, saffron, and eggs.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have tahchin (saffron rice with chicken) using 20 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Tahchin (Saffron rice with Chicken):
  1. Make ready 500 grams boneless chicken
  2. Take 1 medium onion roughly chopped
  3. Make ready 1 tsp Turmeric powder
  4. Get 1 tsp black pepper powder
  5. Take Salt as per taste
  6. Prepare 1/2 cup thick tomato paste
  7. Prepare For Rice
  8. Get 2 cups rice
  9. Get 1 egg
  10. Prepare few strings saffron soaked with hot water and prepare
  11. Prepare 1 cup plain whisked yogurt
  12. Prepare Salt to cook rice
  13. Take Oil for cooking
  14. Take 1 tbsp butter
  15. Make ready For Tempting
  16. Take 2 tbsp dried pomagranate seeds
  17. Make ready Some pumpkin seeds
  18. Prepare Few raisins
  19. Get Chopped dry fruits
  20. Get Few rose petals for garnish

This is a divine dish of layered saffron rice and cooked chicken breasts bound together by seasoned yogurt and egg yolk mixture. We Iranians love our rice and love to layer it with different types of vegetables and meat. Tahchin is a saffron flavored Persian baked rice cake, also known as Iranian rice cake and is mainly prepared with rice, yogurt and saffron. Variations of this recipe are made with lamb, chicken and vegetables.

Instructions to make Tahchin (Saffron rice with Chicken):
  1. Wash and soaked the rice in water with salt for an hour
  2. Take chicken in a pot add onion, turmeric powder, black pepper powder,salt and tomato puree and add hot water
  3. Now mix well cover an cook it on low flame till tender
  4. Break the egg in a Bowl and whisked it,add saffron water and whisked plain yogurt and whisked till all well combined
  5. Now boil water in other vessel add soked rice and some salt let it boil over high heat
  6. When rice half cooked drain warm water and keep the rice in strainer
  7. Now transfer the rice in saffron and egg mixture and mix gently
  8. Other side when chicken done cut in optional size
  9. Now heat oil in a deep pan,now add half of saffron rice in it and push it gently
  10. Now arrange chopped chicken pieces in centre and again keep remaining rice and push it
  11. Now cover the lid and cook for 5 to 8 minutes until start to steam
  12. Once steam comes reduced the heat to low and cook for 20 to 25 minutes
  13. Once rice cooked flip it carefully on a plate to get golden crust rice outside
  14. For Tempting, heat the butter in a pan add dry pomegranate and pumpkin seeds and with few raisins and pour over the top of cooked golden rice
  15. Garnish with dry fruits and rose petals

I would love to have been able to create tahchin, a traditional Irani dish, with her. It is much like the Neapolitan pasta timbale I learnt to make when I lived in Rome, except that this dish is made with rice and chicken and has intense currents of saffron's golden, musky aroma running through it. Bake this tahcheen, a saffron rice with chicken, in a clear glass baking dish so you can check on the crisping of the rice's bottom layer. Set the rice aside to drain as you prepare the dish's other components. Tahchin is a popular Iranian rice dish of saffron-infused rice layered with a kind of meat (or vegetable), yogurt and eggs.

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