Best Indian biryani recipes Archives

Biryani is one of the most popular dishes in India. Biryani is one of the foods for sure that gives that comfort feeling. It is surely a festive dish and this is perfect to cook when you have guests over or make it for dinner parties. There are varieties of biryani are prepared like Hyderabadi biryani, Mughal biryani, chettinadu biryani, Kashmiri biryani. It is a perfect Sunday lunch idea. There will be no one saying No to biryanis, let it be vegetable biryani, chicken biryani, shrimp biryani, palak biryani ,chickpea briyani, potato biryani,paneer biryani, duma loo biryani, cashew biryani,lamb biryani, egg biryani, mushroom biryani and so on!

I have already 6 Biryani recipes , you would have known by now that I love cooking Biryani. The best thing about biryani is that it tastes great even the next day and the day after. It will save you from cooking for next three days and it will never be like you taste leftover food! Awesome right? Biryani has become one of my all time Sunday recipes.

Biryani is not strenuous at all to prepare like many believe. It’s just little time consuming and it need that little extra special care when we do it. Try to use all the ingredients listed, each ingredient has a special role in the biryani and compliments one with another.

1. Mushroom Biryani

A plate full of hot, fragrant rice and mushroom cooked with crispy onions and spiced yoghurt sauce.

1. Restaurant style vegetable biryani

This delicious layered biryani is fragrant, flavorful, and filling. Carrot, beans, peas and potatoes cooked in gravy of spicy yogurt and served with basmati rice topped with cashews and fried onions.

1. Paneer Biryani

This is a treat for the vegetarians. Aromatic and flavorful one pot meal!

1. Egg Biryani

Got some rice and eggs? Turn them into famous scrumptious one pot meal – Egg Biryani.

1. Restaurant style Lamb Biryani

Rich and delicious biryani made with lamb. You are going to love this rice flavorful rice. This is an exotic Indian lamb biryani in a restaurant style.

Shrimp Biryani

Shrimp biryani is extraordinary for seafood lovers and biryani lovers. Shrimp in biryani induce nice flavors to rice.

7. Ambur Mutton Biryani

If you haven’t tasted this Biryani, what are you waiting for? Do give it a try, you are going to love this rich flavorful rice.
Aromatic, fragrant and tasty !

8. Chicken Biryani restaurant Style:

Rich and flavourful biryani made with Chicken!! Recipe is here.

9. Cauliflower Biryani/ Gobi Biryani

Famous Indian One pot meal cooked with spices coated cauliflower. Rich and flavorful 🙂 It is surely a festive dish and this is perfect to cook when you have guests over or make it for dinner parties. Recipe is here.

10. Chicken Biryani Homestyle

Spices massaged to the Chicken, marinated overnight, layered with rice, fried onions and cooked slowly to perfection for the chicken juices to go in the rice! Recipe is here.

11. Hyderabadi Lamb Biryani

A classic Indian dish prepared using spiced Marinated lamb, layered by basmati rice, fried onions, mint & cilantro leaves. Recipe is here.

Best sides for Biryani:

Tomato Garlic Raita

2. Carrot Ginger Raita

3. Cucumber Carrot Raita

4. Mirch ka salan

5. Shimla Mirch ka salan

6. Gobi/Cauliflower fry

7 .Chicken 65

8. Mutton Sukka

9. Coconut Butter Chicken Roast

10. Spicy Chicken Roast:

Got some rice and eggs? Turn them into famous scrumptious one pot meal – Egg Biryani.

One of the famous Indian one pot meal biryani using hard boiled eggs. It has amazing flavors. Biryani has become one of my all time Sunday recipes. I guess I have posted 4 biryani recipes – Lamb Biryani, Shrimp Biryani, Paneer Biryani and Vegetable Biryani. Now this is the fifth one! We can make the Biryani and just have it with no Eggs also. It still tastes great.

I used to frown to prepare biryani before 4 years. I thought it was a big thing, and it is best had only in restaurants. But now 🙂 it has become a part of my Sunday lunch. It took about an hour to prepare. But on weekends, it is fine and also we don’t need to prepare side dish for this. It is great to have with any raita 😉 and especially with garlic raita. I blended the masala and all ingredients and then cooked the rice and masala together and topped the fried masala egg on it.

4.7 from 3 reviews

Hyderabadi Egg Biryani

Author: Suganya Hariharan

Recipe type: Main

Cuisine: Indian

Prep time: 20 mins

Cook time: 40 mins

Total time: 1 hour

Serves: 3 cups

Ingredients

• Oil – 1tbsp
• Bay leaf – ½
• Cinnamon – 1 thin piece
• Cloves – 3
• Cardamom pods -2
• Tomato - 1, small, chopped
• Yogurt – 2 tbsp
• Basmati Rice – 3 cups
• Biryani Masala – 1 tbsp
• Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
for garnish:
• Saffron – ½ tsp dissolved in ½ cup warm milk
• Ghee – 2 tbsp
• Mint – 2 tbsp finely chopped (to garnish)
For the Egg masala:
• Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
• Red chilli powder – 2 tsp
• Black pepper powder – 1 tsp
• Besan flour- 2 tbsp
• Salt – 2 tsp
• Boiled eggs - 4
For fried onions:
• Onions – 2 small onions, ½ cup, sliced thinly
• Cashewnuts – 6
• Oil – to fry (3 - 4 tbsp)
For rice masala:
• Cashew nuts – 6
• Khus khus (white poppy seeds) – ½ tbsp.
• Cumin seeds/ jeera – ½ tbsp
• Fennel seeds – ½ tbsp.
• Coconut – 2 tbsp
• Garlic – 4 pods
• Ginger – 1 inch
• Green chilli – 4
• Mint – ½ cup, chopped finely
• Coriander leaves – ½ cup, chopped finely.

Instructions

Wash and soak rice for at least 30 -40 minutes.

For Fried onions:
Heat a pan with oil, add the sliced onions and cook in medium heat till turn golden brown. Add cashews in the end and fry too. Stir in the middle so that it does not stick to the bottom. Set aside.

For Egg masala:
Mix all the ingredients under “Egg masala” with little water and add the Eggs. Heat a pan with 1 tbsp of butter. Now add the marinated eggs and coat till the eggs gets golden brown.

For masala:
Grind the garlic, ginger, mint, coriander, cashews, coconut (optional), poppy seeds, fennel seeds, cumin seeds, chillis with two tbsp. of water into a smooth paste.
Now take a big pan, add oil or ghee in medium heat, add the spices (cardamom, bay leaf, cinnamon, cloves), and then add the tomatoes and grinded paste and sauté them till the tomatoes are not raw and little mushy.
Now add the yogurt, chilli powder, biryani powder and mix well. I always move the skillet away from the heat when adding yogurt which prevents it from curdling.
Now after returning the skillet back to the stove, add the rice and salt and water. (Quantity of water to be added is for one cup of rice, it is 1.5 cups of water). Mix well and close the lid tight and keep it in medium heat for 10 minutes.
Now add the marinated eggs, fried onions and chopped mint for garnish and keep it in low for 5 minutes.
Drizzle the saffron and milk over the rice and Switch off, and keep it closed for another 5 minutes. They will help the eggs get the masala flavors from rice and vice versa.