Rice Salad

I love rice but often when I’m offered rice it is plain boiled. The rice we ate at home was always more of a meal on its own and not just an accompaniment to something else. We grew up with Persian rice, which is made by frying sliced potatoes in a pan before adding rice and dill. As the rice cooks, the potatoes become crusty. Then you turn the whole pot upside down onto a plate so that you’ve got a mound of rice covered by a potato crust–it’s amazing! Persian rice was the original inspirat