Recipe: Delicious Tah chin (Iranian Rice Cake)

Tah chin (Iranian Rice Cake). A dish of Tahchin, The famous Persian Rice Cake Apart from an amazing taste, it's a good-looking Iranian food, and that's why it's an integral item on the menu of almost every restaurant, party, or formal ceremony in Iran. In Persian, "tah" means "bottom" and "chin" means "arrange". Persian saffron rice cake also known as Tahchin, is a popular Persian dish with plenty of Saffron.

But using some stir-fried barberries and soaked pistachio and almond slices (for less than a minute), could give your Tah-chin a more elegant and formal appearance. Tahchin is Persian rice cake which is made with different ingredients. It consists of a thick layer of rice, saffron, yogurt and egg combination but interestingly we make the vegan version of it and even get a better flavor of this dish. You can cook Tah chin (Iranian Rice Cake) using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Tah chin (Iranian Rice Cake)

1. It's 4 cups of rice.
2. Prepare 300 gr of chicken breast.
3. Prepare 6 of eggs.
4. Prepare 1 of onion.
5. You need 200 gr of yogurt (Greek yogurt is the best).
6. Prepare 1/2 cup of saffron (mixed with hot water).
7. Prepare 1 cup of oil.
8. You need 1 cup of barberry (Zereshk which will be found in all Iranian markets around the world).
9. It's 1 tablespoon of rosewater.
10. You need slices of Almond and pistachio.
11. It's of Salt, pepper, garlic powder, cinnamon powder.
12. Prepare of For decorating:.
13. It's of Carrot, almond and pistachio slices, barberry (your choice).

Vegan yogurt or simply a mixture of plant milk and gram flour is substituted for the dairy yogurt and egg. Tah chin is a glorious savoury rice cake from Iran. The name refers to the layering of meat and rice, which is then baked until it has a crisp base, called a tahdig. It's best to use a nonstick. "Tah" means bottom and "chin" means arrange.

Tah chin (Iranian Rice Cake) step by step

1. Cook the chicken breast with an onion, salt and some spices that you usually use for chicken. After cooking it well, shred the breasts into small pieces..
2. Beat the eggs and after it is smooth, add the yogurt, and then add the amount of saffron, oil, rosewater, spices, and stir the ingredients until they are completely mixed..
3. Heat the oil on a pan and fry the chicken pieces, add salt and the spices and nuts and stir them to get mixed. Then put it aside and in the same pan fry the barberry. If you are not a fan of sour, you can add a pinch of sugar to the barberry. Be careful because it burns so fast. Keep the fire low and just fry it for a couple of minutes..
4. Now add your already cooked rice to the mixture of eggs and yogurt and mix them together very well. Choose a mold (or use a pot) and grease the bottom with little but oil. Then fill the mold (or the pot) with half of your rice, then add you chicken and barberry and then cover the chicken and with the rest of the rice completely..
5. If you are using the mold you can put it in the oven for 40 minutes. If you are using a pot, put the pot on low fire and let it be for around 1 hour and half..
6. You can decorate your dish with any ingredient that you like, just keep in mind that presentation in this dish means everything! Bon Apetit!.
7. This recipe has been published on Cookpad Farsi by Maryam. To see the recipe in original language please click on: https://bit.ly/3jmB2YV.

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 bloomed saffron which makes it so aromatic and full of flavor. Tahchin is such a versatile Persian classic! It's a savoury rice cake that can be prepared with chicken, meat, veggies or plain as a side dish. It has fragrant saffron rice and juicy meat in the centre, a crispy golden rice crust on the outside, and sweet barberries on top.