Tah Cheen

== Description ==
Persian Chicken. Tah Cheen (or tah chin), means "arranged at the bottom of the pot" in Persian. 
== Ingredients ==
* 1 (2.25 lbs) whole chickens
* 1 lb basmati rice
* 10 ounces plain non-fat yogurt
* ½ teaspoon saffron
* 2 large onions
* 3 egg yolks
* cooking oil
* salt (to taste)
* black pepper (to taste)
== Directions ==
# Wash rice and soak it in warm water (with added salt) for 2 hours, then filter out the water.
# Chop onions thinly and fry in oil until slightly golden.
# Wash and cut chicken, remove skin, and fry in onions until color changes.
# Add some water and bring to boil.
# Reduce heat and simmer slowly until cooked, adding more water if needed, then remove the bones.
# While chicken is cooking, beat the yogurt until it is smooth.
# Dissolve saffron in half a cup of hot water.
# Add saffron, salt, pepper and egg yolks to the yogurt and mix very well.
# Pour a few glasses of water in a large pot and bring to boil.
# Pour in rice and cook while stirring occasionally until rice grows longer and slightly softens (take care not to overcook the rice, it should still be too hard for eating); again filter out the water.
# Pour several spoons of oil and several spoons of the yogurt mix into a non-stick pot.
# Add a thin layer of rice and flatten using the back of a spoon; add a layer of chicken on top followed by another layer of rice, then flatten the rice.
# Spread several more spoons of the yogurt mix on the rice.
# Continue in this fashion until chicken, rice and the yogurt mix have been used up, then add some more oil on top.
# Put the lid on and cook for about 5 minutes over medium heat.
# Place the pot in an oven (preheated to 250°F) and cook for 1.
# 5 to 2 hours (note that the longer tah chin is cooked, the thicker the tah dig- delicious crispy layer of rice at the bottom- will be).
# When cooked, remove the lid and let cool for a few minutes.
# Place an inverted large dish over the pot and turn it over.
# Tap the pot in order to loosen the contents inside (the contents should fall on the dish in one piece with the tah dig on the outside).
Category:Persian Meat Dishes
Category:Chicken Recipes
Category:Basmati rice Recipes
Category:Egg yolk Recipes
Category:Saffron Recipes
Category:Yogurt Recipes