Recipe: Tasty Egg Biryani

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Recipe: Tasty Egg Biryani Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Egg Biryani. Egg Biryani is a must-try recipe for all egg lovers as it promises to take your love for eggs to another level altogether. The zesty marinade for egg biryani is made from freshly ground spices, grated ginger, minced garlic, chopped mint and cilantro. Egg biryani recipe - Fragrant basmati rice cooked with aromatic biryani spices, herbs & boiled eggs to yield a delicious one pot egg biryani.

In this egg biryani recipe you get a double dhamaka of eggs - boiled and in an omelette along with the delicious taste of long grain rice and a flavourful masala base.

I think it is much simpler and quicker than preparing any meat or even a mixed vegetable biryani.

Have it along with raita or a quick kachumber and let the party begin.

You can have Egg Biryani using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Egg Biryani

  1. Prepare of Oil.

  2. You need of basmati rice.

  3. It’s of Ginger garlic paste.

  4. You need of large onion thinly sliced or finely minced.

  5. It’s of green chilies slit or minced.

  6. Prepare of boiled eggs (prick with a fork randomly).

  7. You need of medium tomato chopped(optional).

  8. Prepare of turmeric powder.

  9. It’s of red chilli powder.

  10. It’s of Biryani masala powder (I used SHAN).

  11. It’s of mint and coriander leaves chopped.

  12. You need of Salt.

  13. It’s of fresh yogurt.

  14. You need of water.

  15. Prepare of Dry spices for egg biryani.

  16. It’s of star anise.

  17. Prepare of bay leaf.

  18. It’s of shahi jeera.

  19. It’s of green cardamoms.

  20. It’s of cloves.

  21. Prepare of cinnamon stick.

  22. It’s of mace.

  23. You need of strands of saffron (keep in 2tsp of warm milk).

Restaurant-style egg biryani made in pressure cooker using basic everyday ingredients like rice, eggs, yogurt, spices, and masala.

Step by Step method for a perfect Mughlai Egg Biryani with serving suggestions.

This weekend I made my family's favorite 'Restaurant Style Egg Biryani' which everyone also calls 'Pressure Cooker Egg Biryani or.

Egg biryani too holds a powerful place in the biryani family only using eggs in place of meat or chicken preparing it with all the common traditional spices.

Egg Biryani instructions

  1. Soak rice for at least 20 to 30 mins. Drain water and set the rice aside in a colander..

  2. Boil eggs and remove the shells and wash them. Prick randomly with a fork a couple of times and Set aside..

  3. Heat a pressure pan or a biryani handi with oil, add onions and fry till golden brown. Add ginger garlic paste and fry till the raw smell goes off..

  4. Add the dry spices and allow them to sizzle. Add tomatoes, mint, red chilli powder, turmeric, salt and yogurt. Cook until the tomatoes turn mushy..

  5. Add eggs and biryani masala powder and fry till the mixture thickens. Pour water and add salt as needed. Bring it to a boil.

  6. Add soaked rice (drain water) and saffron with milk and cook rice in open pan till very little water is left..

  7. Lower the flame, cover and cook till the rice is done. If using pressure cooker, close the lid and cook on a very low flame for about 5 minutes. Switch off before it whistles to prevent it from becoming mushy, Set this aside, don’t leave on the hot burner..

  8. Fluff up the egg biryani and serve with raita..

Comfort food, Egg biryani, makes for a perfect Sunday meal with raita and curry.

Yesterday, I was inspired to make a flavored rice and since our family loves eggs, I decided on Egg biryani which has a striking resemblance to Hyderabadi Chicken Dum Biryani.

Its easy to put together, substantial and full of flavor.

Forget boiling eggs and cooking rice separately when making egg biryani.

With my instant pot egg biryani recipe, you can cook hardboiled eggs AND biryani rice at the same time in the same pot!