Pars Automatic Persian Rice Cooker - Tahdig Rice Maker Perfect Rice Crust, 4 Cup

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By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. When the hour is up, you invert the pot on a plate as if you're removing a cake from its pan, and voila, you have a golden brown crust of rice surrounding a steaming cake of white rice.

Also, be very careful with washing and storing the bowl insert of the rice cooker as it is nonstick and can scratch easily. Use the recipe below as a guide; it might take a couple of tries to get acquainted with your rice cooker. We do have many different versions of Persian rice dishes such as Sabzi Polo which is layered with fresh herbs. What I found said butter actually has a lower smoking point than olive oil, and Tahdig is not made over high heat. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast.

Add a pinch of ground saffron and either a tablespoon of fresh chopped dill or 1 teaspoon of dry dill weed. Despite my unlimited free time to test and perfect polo to my madar-joon’s standards, I realized I needed a shortcut. For this recipe I am using two cups of rice which is small amount made for The Sous Chef and I to consume during two meals.

I bought a few bags of basmati rice from the supermarket, enough for four or five batches of polo and tadig. It makes a much better tahdig (the crispy, golden crust on the bottom of Persian rice), and you don’t have to worry about burning the tahdig. To achieve the crisped rice mentioned the temp must rise above 100°C which the machine simply can't do, unless the thermostat is disabled, thereby ruining the cooker for its intended purpose.He knows how to make tahdig the traditional way, but we are at a loss as to how to use this cooker, as it came with no instructions. Each model will have different settings, but generally it takes about an hour to turn out a crunchy white rice tahdig. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights.