Peel off onion. Chop it finely. Saute it in a pan for 5 minutes over a medium heat. Add raisins and orange skin to onion and cook it for 2-3 minutes more. Set it aside.
Remove pits from dates. Mash them with hand or put them into a microwave and add 1 tbs water and microwave for 20 seconds. Then, makes date pastes as size of small balls. Saute in the pan for 2-3 minutes. Set aside.
Place the rice in a bowl and wash the rice with cold water and drain it. Then fill the bowl with 4 cups of cold water, add 3 tbs of salt and rice. Let it soak for an hour. Bring water to boil in a pot. Drain soaked rice and pour it into the pot. Let it to cook for about 5 minutes. Break noodles into small pieces and add toasted noodles to the boiled rice and let it to cook for 5 minutes more.Then, pour boiled rice mixture into a strainer and rinse under running water.
Put the pot on the heat. Add 3 tbs of Olive oil to the pot. Cover bottom of pot with a slice of flat bread for making tahdig. Place the rice-noodle top of the bread. Cover the pot with a lid. Allow to cook for 20 minutes over how heat.
Mix it. Keep it for garnishing rice.
Serve the rice with fried raisins and dates. This meal goes very well with pickles as well.
Enjoy
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