If Oakland’s Helia Sadeghi had to eat one dish for the rest of her life, it would be crispy, buttery, comforting tahchin. In Sadeghi’s childhood home in Iran, the golden domed rice “cake” layered with ...

Local, Private Chef Mahsa Darabi showed Tra'Renee how to make a delicious Persian Saffron Chicken Tenders & Rice recipe. Click here for more information about Mahsa.

I still get nervous every time I cook Iranian-style rice, even though I’ve done it—and spoken and written about it—hundreds of times. In my culture, cooking rice is a ceremonial process; it’s the true ...

Instructions: Make the sauce: In a medium saucepan heat 2 tablespoons vegetable oil over medium heat and lightly brown onion, about 5 minutes. Add garlic, turmeric, cayenne and cinnamon and stir to ...

Marinated overnight in saffron, yoghurt and lime, Samin Nosrat’s joojeh kabob roast chicken from her new book ‘Good Things’ ...

Everywhere in the world where people eat both chicken and rice, you’ll find a one-pot dish like this that you can make in a single skillet. Yasmin Fahr specializes in one-pot dishes. She wrote a ...

I know what you’re thinking: Enough with the chicken soup, already! Yes, yes — this is the third story in our series. (Here is the first, and the second.) The soup I want to tell you about now will be ...