Persian Chicken - Tah Cheen

==Description==
Category:Persian Recipes
Tah Cheen, means "arranged at the bottom of the pot" in Persian. 
===Ingredients===
* 1 (2.25 lbs) whole chickens 
* 1 lb basmati rice 
* 10 ounces plain nonfat yogurt 
* 1/2 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). 
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==See also==
Category: Persian Meat Dishes Category:Meat Dishes Category:Recipes
Category:Chicken Recipes
category:basmati rice Recipes
category:pepper Recipes
category:yolks Recipes
category:saffron Recipes
category:yogurt Recipes
category:pepper Recipes
category:Onion Recipes
category:water Recipes
category:salt Recipes
category:rice Recipes
category:oil Recipes
category:bread Recipes