Baked Persian Rice with Chicken

Though around the world most rice is cooked in some form of pot or pan over a flame or other heat, there is a whole category of baked savory rice dishes. These include not only Italian bomba de riso and South Carolina baked perloo, but also their probable ancestor, tahchin, baked Persian rice. The same principles apply to baked rice as to katteh and chelo: The goal is fluffy separate grains of