The humble rice reworked into an epic side! Called Tachin or Tahchin, this baked Persian Saffron Rice is crunchy at the backyard and fluffy at the inside. It’s seasoned sufficient to devour plain but wonderful paired with even closely spiced mains. That crust is everything!!
IT’S CALLED TACHIN
This Persian Saffron Rice isn't one thing I made up. It’s a real-deal Persian dish generally known as Tachin.
Often you’ll discover recipes the place it’s layered with a little bit of hen or different protein of vegetables. But for my Persian menu, I’m utilizing it as a aspect dish so I opted to hold it plain.
Not that there’s one thing plain about Tachin!!!
You’ll typically discover recipes for Tachin – also typically generally known as Tahchin – cooked at the stove. But having tried that a couple of times, I can inform you definitively that oven is a lot simpler and safer! On range top, there’s a excessive danger of breakage whilst you flip it, you can’t see whilst the bottom is perfectly golden brown and actually, it’s more durable to get beautiful even golden browning at the stove, you have a tendency to get darker and lighter patches.
YOGURT MIXTURE FOR SAFFRON RICE
All these shiny colors and textures at the table, and I swear all I can talk about is the saffron rice! Not to discuss down everything else on that table, simply due to the fact it’s all tremendous tasty. 🙂 But I actually have a enormous gentle spot for the rice simply due to the fact it’s one among these recipes that seems unique but is deceptively easy.
Love recipes like that!
The key to this recipe is a yogurt-egg-oil-saffron combination it really is blended with par boiled rice, then layered with barberries in a pie dish and baked till crispy at the outside.
This is the yogurt I use – Farmers Union Greek Yogurt. It’s the yogurt I’ve all the time used for all my cooking – savoury and candy – as properly dolloping / dipping / drizzling on everything from this Lamb Shawarma Chickpea Soup to Crispy Baked Chicken Tenders to this San Fran Chicken Salad with Granch (Greek-Yogurt-Ranch-Dressing).
It’d be a uncommon get together should you opened my fridge and didn’t see a enormous tub of it. 🙂
DRIED BARBERRIES
They appear like dried pomegranates (is there such a thing??!!) and style like sour cherries. A very Persian ingredient, you won’t discover those in each day supermarkets but don’t fret! Yes, having barberries makes it authentically Persian. But from a flavour and visible perspective, it's substituted with chopped dried sour cherries or cranberries.
You’ll discover dried barberries at Persian / Middle Eastern shops or at gourmet shops like The Essential Ingredient. In this Persian Saffron Rice, it’s used within the layers as nicely as a garnish. Beautiful pops of shade in opposition to the yellow rice and deep golden crust.
Let’s be sincere – I can speak up how the rice internal is fluffy and flavoured with the yogurt mixture, and how it’s so tasty you'll be able to devour it plain, and how you’ll love the little pops of sourness from the barberries that cuts by way of the richness of the rice.
But you and I equally realize that this recipe is all about that golden crust. That crust you desire to peel off and have all to yourself.