Rice is to the Middle East what pasta is to Italy. While rice is a staple in Asian countries, there it is typically served plain; the flavors coming from the sauces for the vegetables, meat or legumes. Iraqi and particularly Iranian rice dishes, on the other hand, are known for their flavours, colours and, especially, their presentation. The way we serve them is something of a ritual. Having more than one rice dish at a meal is not unusual. Sometimes we even make a rice crust on the bottom of a dish so that, when served turned upside down, it looks like a cake.It took me a long time to get used to making a smaller quantity of rice for dinner. When I was growing up, my mother would serve everyone a big mound of rice topped with whatever stew she had cooked that day. We’d eat the rice with a spoon or by scooping it up with a piece of hubus, or flatbread. I guarantee you that in any traditional Iranian home you’ll find a huge pot of rice on the stove.The Iranian and Iraqi method of preparing rice: partially cooking it, draining it, then returning it to the pot with fried onion and a touch of water and continuing to cook it very slowly. This method results in delicious dry, almost crispy, rice, but it is time-consuming and the rice loses some of its nutritional value.Here’s my way:

Awesome persian inspired side dish. Would be great served with some grilled chicken. Lastly, saffron is pricey but its flavor is different from anything you've tasted; it's worth the price in my opinion :)

This is a great recipe to add for grilled meats or roasted meats. Served with pickled vegetables, this dish combines all flavours for an appetizing meal.

Saffron Jasmine rice with co-stars lol.

Turmeric is a very good spice anti inflammatory, anti bacterial, anti cancer

So very good!!

One of my favorite dish

Easier to make! It's also not so spicy considering I have to feed my little kids.I use the spices that I find around in the drawers. No mint leaves tho, not in season, and fresh coriander is hard to come by.

I always make this anyway so I decided to turn it into a recipe.If you don't like white wine you can use water instead. The aroma and the colour of the finished rice will vary depending on which brand of saffron you use. Recipe by Cookie shiasu

Very yummy boil with the bone to get most flavor as possible.

This simple recipe turns bland white rice into amazingly tasty Indian rice! 👳🍚You can easily modify the amounts depending on how many people you're serving 😊

Verry good