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 hello@modernpersianfood.com 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
Podcast Production by Alvarez Audio
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