Do you know those Kabob restaurants? What is the name of the type of rice they serve?

[Anonymous]

It’s basmati rice with saffron water added in during the cooking. Grind the saffron with some sugar to avoid bitterness and add some hot water to it. Pour it into the pot or rice cooker while the rice is cooking. The rice also needs to be rinsed several times before cooking and if you really want it to be fluffy soak the rice overnight in salt water. Just make sure the salt rinses off before cooking. No cumin!

[Anonymous]

If from a Persian restaurant like Moby Dick, Rumi's Kitchen, Shamshiry, etc it it is basmati rice. On top they use saffron water and butter as described above. No turmeric or cumin.

[Anonymous]

I love it, too. Good thread!

[Anonymous]

Didn’t we just have a thread where someone linked to the special rice cooker for shabzi? Style Rice

[Anonymous]

Tadek

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's very unhealthy so much butter and carbs

This reminds me of that geico commercial where the couple has an “aunt” infestation. “Expired. Expired. Expired.” This PP is for sure someone’s annoying aunt.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RMf_qMhg64Q

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's very unhealthy so much butter and carbs

Boo freakin’ hoo. Nobody asked how to make nanny food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's very unhealthy so much butter and carbs

This reminds me of that geico commercial where the couple has an “aunt” infestation. “Expired. Expired. Expired.” This PP is for sure someone’s annoying aunt.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RMf_qMhg64Q

She reminds me of my MIL. She would take a package of plain frozen broccoli and microwave it without anything to season it. It would be cold by the time she served it. Between 6 or 7 of us around the table, it would go uneaten. One evening dh and were hanging out with my 12 year old SIL because his parents were out and we’d offered to feed SIL dinner. I sautéed some broccoli in just a little bit of butter and olive oil and added some salt. SIL gobbled it up and asked for seconds. When my in-laws came home, SIL told MIL how good the broccoli was. Later on, SIL told me that she’d asked MIL to fix it that way and MIL had said that was too unhealthy. I guess not eating any broccoli is healthier than consuming tiny quantities of fat and salt on a large serving of broccoli?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's very unhealthy so much butter and carbs

Do you just eat nuts and berries all day?

even that has carbs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ha! I recently started adding turmeric and pepper and garlic powder to my rice along with olive oil. It LOOKS like the restaurant yellow rice but doesn’t have the taste. Wonder what other spices to add. I do have ground clove but I’m worried it would be too strong.

You need to add cumin.

[Anonymous]

No cumin. Big mistake.

[Anonymous]

It’s probably Tahdig , which is classic Persian rice. The crispy bottom crust is a treat.