Tahchin (Saffron rice with Chicken)

Steps Cook Recipes Tahchin (Saffron rice with Chicken) using 20 ingredients and 15 steps

Tahchin (Saffron rice with Chicken) - Iman Zarei is working on his PhD in Human Nutrition at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. 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 popular Iranian rice dish of saffron-infused rice layered with a kind of meat (or vegetable), yogurt and eggs. There are different kinds of Tahchins based on the ingredient which is layered with rice.

The golden crust on this Persian Saffron Rice looks and taste incredible!!!

Called Tachin, this rice is made with yogurt, saffron, yolks and butter.

You can cook Tahchin (Saffron rice with Chicken) using 20 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients make Tahchin (Saffron rice with Chicken)

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

Tahchin (Saffron rice with Chicken) instructions

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.

Tahchin (Saffron rice with Chicken) - 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. Some versions of the dish are more elaborate, folding in chicken fillets, vegetables, fish, or red meat. Tahchin is a combination of two words: Tah+Chin. "Tah" means bottom and "chin" means arrange. It's very different from other Persian dishes as it's actually very sticky and has a cake-like texture because its ingredients include yogurt and eggs. The golden color of this saffron rice cake is a result of. 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. Thank you and good luck