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Persians are a people known for their rice—and that renown is well deserved. Pillowy soft grains of rice and a crunchy tahdig layer are the trademarks of Persian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Green, gorgeous and great with chicken or fish - Haarala Hamilton and Valerie Berry This is cooked the Persian way, with butter ...

Tahdig is a Persian showpiece dish: the inverted contents of a pot or pan of rice, the bottom of which is expertly cooked until it is crisp and burnished and crackles when you cut into the pilaf with ...

By adding dishes that include an element of reversal we can recall the story of the holiday at our own banquet. This year, I will serve Shirin Polo, a traditional Persian rice dish, which is served ...

Some of the most precious memories that our good friend Mona has from her childhood are the summers she spent with her grandmother Mamamohtaram in Tehran. Her grandmother lived on the ground floor of ...

In my column Saturday on learning to cook perfect pilaf, I confessed that I still had yet to master making tah-dig, that crust of browned rice that is the hallmark of a great Persian cook. I got lots ...

So you like falafel and shawarma wraps – I get it, I like them too. But did you know there’s so much more to Middle Eastern cuisine and, being Persian myself, I want to share a few of my family ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The term tahdig comes from two Persian words: tah, meaning bottom, and dig, meaning pot — hence, “the bottom of the pot.” This ...