Persian steamed rice with Saffron crust
Persian steamed rice with Saffron crust

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Persian Rice - How to Make Perfect Steamed Rice. How To Make Persian Rice Tahdig (Rice Crust). The golden crust on this Persian Saffron Rice looks and taste incredible!!!

Persian steamed rice with Saffron crust is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Persian steamed rice with Saffron crust is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook persian steamed rice with saffron crust using 6 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Persian steamed rice with Saffron crust:
  1. Take 4 cups Persian rice or Basmati rice
  2. Make ready 1/2 cup oil
  3. Make ready 1/4 cup water
  4. Get 1 tbsp Saffron water
  5. Make ready extra vegetable oil
  6. Get Salt

The grains hold their shape better during the steaming process I made the rice with flour tortilla tahdig and saffron sprinkled over right before steaming and it was fantastic! It was my first delicious pot of. To make chelo, Persian basmati rice, the traditional way you have to clean it, wash it, parboil it, strain it and then steam it. I was very intimidated when I first made this basmati rice recipe, as well Saffron is used to make that yellow rice we all know and love in Persian chelo and even in Spanish paella.

Steps to make Persian steamed rice with Saffron crust:
  1. Wash the rice with cold water. Fill the bowl with cold water, add rice, cold water and 1tbsp salt. Let to soak for 1 hour.
  2. In a non-stick pot, bring water to a boil, drain salted water and pour the rice into the boiling water. Let to cook for 10 minutes. Check the rice grains between your fingers, if is slightly soft, it is time to remove from the heat.
  3. Using a colander, drain the rice and rinse with cold water.
  5. In a bowl combine ½ cup of vegtable oil, ¼ cup water and saffron water with 3 spatulas of parboiled rice (about 2 cups rice) and stirring well.
  10. Add 1 tbsp vegetable oil to the bottom of the pot. Cover the bottom of the pot with Saffron rice and pile up the rest of the white rice on the top and shaping the rice into a pyramid.
  12. Wrap the pot's lid with a kitchen towel, and Cover the pot. Allow to cook over medium to low heat for 30-40 minutes to form a golden crust.
  13. Once rice is ready, hold serving platter over the uncovered pot and unmolding the rice into the platter. Voila you have such a lovely golden crust rice.
  21. Ingredients

Saffron-Flavored Steamed Rice With Golden Crust. Persian cooking instructor Najmieh Batmanglij makes some kind of rice every day and says it's a big part of Iranian cooking. For this stunning dish, she prefers to use Aahu Barah brand basmati. Place rice in a large bowl and cover with lukewarm water. Using your hand, agitate rice, then drain.

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