• 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
  • Release date: 2023-10-11
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