Recipe: Tasty Chicken stuffed rice(tah-chin morgh)

Chicken stuffed rice(tah-chin morgh). Add turmeric, salt, pepper, and water (just to cover the chicken). Add turmeric, salt, pepper, and water (just to cover the chicken). Hi Friends - Today, I go through step by step in making this Persian Delicacy, known as "Tahchin Morgh" or "Baked Crispy Chicken Rice Cake with Saffron".

For decoration, we use barberry and pistachio. Beautiful color and wonderful aroma of saffron, red barberries and Tahdig!. Tahchin can be cooked with different recipes, but the most famous type is the Tahchin Morgh, which is usually cooked without oven. You can have Chicken stuffed rice(tah-chin morgh) using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken stuffed rice(tah-chin morgh)

1. Prepare 2 cups of rice.
2. You need 1 cup of yoghurt.
3. Prepare 2 of eggs.
4. It's 1/2 of ts. saffron powder.
5. Prepare 2 pcs. of chicken breast or 5 drum sticks.
6. It's 1 of medium onion.
7. Prepare 1/2 cup of oil.
8. You need of salt, pepper, turmeric.

Tah chin — also spelled tah-chin or tacheen — is a dramatic Persian rice dish. Partly cooked rice is flavored with saffron, yogurt and egg yolks and then layered in a dish with chicken or lamb. The whole dish is baked and then turned out onto a platter, forming a mound of deliciousness with a golden, crispy crust. Tahchin Morgh has a simple technique; basically it is aromatic fluffy rice layered with cooked chicken.

Chicken stuffed rice(tah-chin morgh) instructions

1. Peel and slice the onion. Fry it with chicken for 5 minutes. Add turmeric, salt, pepper, and water (just to cover the chicken). Boil until done..
2. In a small bowl mix saffron with 2 spoons of hot chicken stock..
3. Boil the rice with 3 cups of water, half of the oil and salt till the water dries out. the rice shouldn't get very soft..
4. In a big bowl beat the eggs, yoghurt, saffron, a pinch of salt, and 3-4 spoons of oil..
5. Add the rice to the batter..
6. Bring a pan with 3 spoons of oil into heat. Spread half of the batter with rice in the hot pan. (You can use the rice cooker too.).
7. Remove the bones from the chicken, and sliced it into small pieces, put the chicken on the rice..
8. Add the rest of the rice and cover the chicken. Cover and steam the rice on low fire for about 45 minutes until the bottom is gold and crispy..

What makes it special is that chicken thighs, or drumsticks, or a combination of the two are cooked with pieces of onion, salt, pepper and little water until the meat falls off the bone, then it is layered with cooked rice. Spread several more spoons of the yogurt mix on the rice. Continue in this fashion until chicken, rice and the yogurt mix have been used up. Add some more oil on top. Add the chicken and. "TahChin Morgh" or as I like to call it, "Upside Down Chicken and Rice".