Shiraz Chicken and Eggplant Tahchin Recipe in Iran
This delicious and fragrant food called Tahchin Chicken and Eggplant is a local and traditional food in Shiraz, Iran, which is cooked as follows, and follow the cooking article of Koolleh magazine in the continuation of this article.
INGREDIENTS :
- Rice = 5 cups
- Chicken breast = 3 pcs
- Eggplant = 3 pcs
- Sugar = 2 tablespoons
- Barberry = 100 grams
- Chicken juice = 1 glass
- Egg yolk = 2 pcs
- High fat yogurt = 1 glass
- Saffron mixed with hot water = required amount
INSTRUCTION :
Pour the chicken breasts with 1 onion, salt, turmeric and a few glasses of water into the pot and cook, then shave and set aside.
Peel a squash, grate it and squeeze the juice. Sprinkle salt over the sliced eggplants and refrigerate for 30 minutes to remove excess water, then fry in oil.
Soak the rice 30 minutes before cooking, pour the rice into a saucepan with a few glasses of water and some salt and put it on the heat to boil and soften, then rinse (you should rinse the rice when you squeeze the rice grain between two fingers Around the rice grain is soft and the kernel is slightly raw).
Soak the sugar in warm water for a few minutes to soften it, then fry it with some sugar in oil.
In a bowl of yogurt, mix the egg yolks, some saffron mixed with hot water and salt with 1/4 of the drained rice, pour some oil on the bottom of the pot and put it on the heat. Pour this mixture into the pot and press with the back of a spoon. Until the materials are well compressed.
Pour some barberry, fried eggplant and shaved chicken on this layer, pour some white rice on this material and put 2-3 layers on top of each other and cover the last layer with the tower.
Increase the heat to steam the rice, then pour 1 glass of chicken broth over the rice, reduce the heat and put it in a pot and let the rice cook for 1 hour, after cooking, return the rice in a mold and serve.