Rice

Welcome to the third episode of the Modern Persian Food podcast! Co-hosts Bita and Beata have a thorough conversation all around rice.  The duo touches on rice history, types of rice, cooking it, personal favorites, and of course tahdig! (note: Tahdig can also be spelled Tadig, or tadeeg)

• Use long-grain, white basmati rice to make Persian Rice
• Cooking/Preparing rice
• • Plain white rice | Chelo - often served with kababs
  • Layering parboiled rice with other ingredients for Persian Mixed Rice Dishes | Polo
  • Baked | Tahcheen
• Special Steps/Techniques
• • Rinsing, soaking, salt the water, and add oil
  • Using a rice cooker
  • Tea towel wrapped lid of rice pot or rice cooker
• Damkonee - a bonnet for the lid
• Tahcheen - baked rice dish
• Tahdig | Persian bottom of the rice pot - rice, bread or potato 
• • Spelling variations include: Tadig and Tadeeg
• Modern Tahdig - with tortilla, with pasta (‘macoroni’)
• Persian Jeweled Rice -A beautiful layered rice dish/a celebration rice
• Shirin Polo (sweet rice) - a Beats cheat:  use orange marmalade
• Albaloo Polo (cherry rice) - another Beats cheat - make it using sour cherry jam
• Adas Polo
• Reshteh Polo
• “Ask the Beats” - Question:  from Trish in Menlo Park, What is your Go-to dish - Tahcheen and Lubia Polo
• • Email [email protected] to be featured in a future episode

Recipe links from this episode:

• Rice:
• • Bita’s recipe How to Prepare Persian Rice in a Rice Cooker (with bit on saffron)
  • Bita’s recipe: How to Parboiling Rice; Bita’s Youtube video for How to Parboil Rice
• Adas Polo 
• • Bita’s recipe:  Adas Polo | Persian Lentil and Date Rice;  
  • Bita’s Youtube video for Persian Lentil and Rice | Adas Polo
• Tacheen
• • Bita’s recipe:  Tahcheen | Baked Persian Chicken and Rice Casserole
  • Beata’s recipe: Giti Joon's Famous Tacheen Recipe

• Lubia Polo
• • Bita’s recipe: Loobia Polo | Persian Rice with Green Beans
  • Beata’s recipe: Lubia Polo for the Persian New Year Sezdeh be Dar Picnic

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