Rice

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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)</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Use long-grain, white basmati rice to make Persian Rice</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Cooking/Preparing rice</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline;"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Plain white rice | Chelo - often served with kababs</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Layering parboiled rice with other ingredients for Persian Mixed Rice Dishes | Polo</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Baked | Tahcheen</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Special Steps/Techniques</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline;"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Rinsing, soaking, salt the water, and add oil</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Using a rice cooker</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tea towel wrapped lid of rice pot or rice cooker</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Damkonee - a bonnet for the lid</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Tahcheen - baked rice dish</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Tahdig | Persian bottom of the rice pot - rice, bread or potato </span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline;"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Spelling variations include: Tadig and Tadeeg</span></li> </ul> </li>