First we need to make tomato sauce: melt the butter in a skillet, add tomato paste and saute for 2 minutes.

Then add squeezed orange juice and saffron water to the tomato and after 1 minute remove from the heat and set aside.

Melt the butter in a pan, add diced onions, turmeric, salt and cayenne pepper and saute for 5 minutes.

Then, add chicken pieces and let to fry over a medium heat for 10 minutes.

Pour 3 cups of water over the chicken, add tomato sauce and let to cook for 1 hour, stir 1-2 times occasionally.

Add tomato sauce and let to cook for 1 hour, stir 1-2 times occasionally.

For making rice: wash the rice then in a bowl dissolve 2 Tbsp salt in 4 cups of cold water and let soak rice for 30 minutes.

Bring the water to a boil, drain salty water of rice and let rice cook for 10 minutes. Then place the par cooked rice in a colander and rinse with tapped water.

Pour some oil in the pot and place thinly sliced potatoes or flat bread in the bottom of pot.

Then pour par cooked rice top of the potatoes.

Place pieces of butter top of the rice.

Cover the pot and let the rice cook over medium to low heat.

Once rice is ready, mix 3-4 tbsp of cooked rice with saffron water and use it for garnishing top of the rice.

Meanwhile, fry ½ diced onion in a skillet until golden brown. Set aside.

Melt butter In the same skillet, add washed barberries, saffron water and sugar. Saute over low heat for couple of minutes.

Then add fried onion, mix together and set aside.

Once rice is ready, transfer it to a platter, garnish with saffron rice, and top with fried barberries and chicken. And from bottom of the rice you will take fried potatoes or bread (tah dig) which is speciality of Persian cuisine.
Enjoy this beautiful dish.

Crispy fried potatoes and flat bread from bottom of the pot. They are delish :)

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