Most common ingredients for making tahdig include yogurt and saffron, bread, or potato. In some countries with rice eating culture, you can find a kind of tahdig. For instance: In China tahdig is called guoba forms during the boiling of rice over direct heat from a flame. In Spanish cuisine ‘ socarrat’, the rice that gets crunchy and forms a crust at the bottom of the pan. In Korean cuisine’ nurungji’ is Korean type of tahdig at the bottom of the pot when rice is hard boiled.
In Dominican foods there is ‘ Concon’ which is a thin layer of burned rice from the bottom of the pot For making tadig, as I mentioned there are different ingredients and methods. In order to achieve tah dig, you need to put extra oil in the bottom of the pot. Popular one is to cover the bottom of the pot with a layer of flat and thin lavash bread or tortilla bred and then topping it with rice.
Other thadig is to line the bottom of the pot with slices of potatoes before topping it with the rice.
Very basic and simplest tahdig is to use plain rice. The rice should be toasted and making a crackling sound. This is tahdig.
There is other technique to mix rice with yogurt, curry spices and saffron. Result would be colourful saffroni and curry flavour with thick pan-fried texture. At the end, in Persian cuisine tahdig can be considered a ‘delicacy’.
