Crispy Rice With Dill and Runny Eggs

I made this with brown rice and it was delicious. 10/10. I followed the recipe for everything else. Highly recommend. It does remind me of the flavors of Persian food.

This is one of my favorite dinner recipes I can't believe it has so few comments! I make it exactly as written but with 2 substitutions: instead of lima beans I use frozen shelled green fava beans which was the only thing available at the Persian grocery store and they're even better than the limas! I use all the suggested toppings, but instead of pepperoncini I use Marconi Hot Giardiniera. One of my favorite meals and always a crowd pleaser! I heat leftovers in the same nonstick skillet.

I don’t think I would make this with dried dill again. It’s pretty dull, and the crisp bits of rice are stuck to the bottom of the pan.

This is delicious and easy. Perfect for summer dinner for two with leftovers. Yum.

This is what my Persian husband and I often made for dinner years ago when we were poor college students. Love to eat it with a bit of hot sauce (like Crystal). Yum!

Hello - Did anyone make this in a regular skillet as opposed to a non-stick? What were the results? I am sure this old recipe was made long before non-stick skillets existed!

This is a great method for making quick crispy rice when you don’t have any leftover on hand. I didn’t use lemon at the end at first, but it brings more lightness to the dish. I think this would have benefited from crispy garlic or a chili oil of some sort if you don’t use lemon to finish.

We made this dish according to recipe but doubled it, so we had a bit of a harder time crisping up the rice bc of the additional volume. But nevertheless it was great! The toppings were critical - a lot of feta and castelvetrano olives and lemon all very necessary. We ate it with lemony dilly salmon which was the perfect combo!! Will definitely use this recipe again and will experiment with different types of beans. And I had it for breakfast the next day - this would be perfect for group brunch

made tonight and thought it was amazingly simple and super delicious! i couldn’t find lima beans and subbed peas which gave it an interesting bit of sweetness. i garnished with lemon juice as others mentioned, lemon zest and a little bit of feta. i did miss the instruction that said to turn the heat back up to med so it took a little longer. but i can’t wait to make and eat this again!

This one is in regular dinner rotation. I use chickpeas since I've always got a bag in the pantry. When I first started making it I stuck to the listed toppings and it was awesome. Now that we make it all the time we use it to work though whatever's in the fridge. Pickled green beans, pickled fresno or jalapeño peppers, rice seasoning, broiled halloumi, drizzle of chili oil to finish... I cut it down to 2 eggs and then split the leftovers for lunch or dinner with a fried egg the next day.

I used brown Jasmine rice and threw in a little bit of Mediterranean seasoning, marinated artichokes, and capers along with the feta. It was so so so delicious with pita!!! Definitely making it again and again... And again.

Didn’t taste bad but the recipe didn’t really work as written. The eggs were not set even after 10 mins of cooking over the rice. I had to scoop the eggs out and microwave it on a plate

This was delicious, I added a cup of peas and used brown rice (didn’t have any white rice), it totally stuck to the pan but after I’d scraped the dish (to get all of those lovely burnt bits, socarrat we call it in Spain) I put some dish soap and water into it, put it to boil and all of the burnt stuff was easy to remove. Will repeat!

This is a great template. I've not ever made these the same way twice. I rarely have lima beans around so usually throw in a can of chickpeas with the rice, then some spinach when there's around 5 minutes left on the steaming rice. Works well especially if I'm missing the herbs. Sometimes I caramelize (or char) some onions and throw on some quick pickled jalapenos for heat and acid. Easy, quick, and satisfying.

kind of meh—needs something. maybe shallots? Difficult to get the whites of the eggs cooked through without overcooking the yolks. I might fry the eggs separately.