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Tahchin (Iran)
- Preparation time
- 1 h 30
- Servings
- serves 4
Ingredients
serves 4
- Chicken — to buy500g
- Rice — to buy300g
- Yogurt — to buy300g
- Saffron — to buy1 pinch
- Egg — to buy2
- Butter — to buy50g
Preparation
Cook the chicken with a little infused saffron until tender, then shred it into pieces.
Half-cook the rice in salted boiling water, drain.
Mix the yogurt, egg yolks and infused saffron, fold in half of the rice.
In a buttered dish, layer the yogurt rice, then the shredded chicken, then finish with the rest of the plain rice.
Cover and bake at 180°C for 45-50 minutes, until a golden, crisp crust forms underneath.
Unmould by flipping the dish onto a plate to reveal the golden crust, serve right away.