Yes I am vegetarian and for me egg comes under the category of vegetarian food, some do call me egg-tarian too. So story about Egg Biryani again comes from the fact of making only one dish when my husband was travelling. And egg off course was an easiest choice not to mention that earlier I would have scrambled eggs and toast but then one day I tried of making Egg Biryani. So with couple of searches here and there finally I had the recipe which I thought would work well for me. So Egg Biryani can be made in an authentic and elaborate style also but here the recipe is one which would give taste as well as hassel free. However for the usual way you can precook the rice and layer it alternatively over egg gravy and give it a dum. But in this one I have cooked rice along with gravy and added eggs when rice was 90% done and gave dum right after adding eggs. This helped to retain the flavors and also eggs absorb a lot of them. Just have to be careful while adding water since we use curd in this which will have its own moisture hence water used will be 1 ½ cups as opposed to 2 cups for a cup of rice.
Try this tasty and spicy Egg Biryani with Pudina Raita and make your dinner as special as yourself.
- Eggs: 4 hard Boiled
- Rice: 1 cup soaked in water
- Bay Leaf: 2
- Big cardamom: 1
- Green cardamom:2
- Cloves:4
- Cinnamon:1
- Black pepper:5
- Turmeric Powder: 1 tsp
- Coriander powder: 1 tsp
- Cumin powder: 1/2 tsp
- Chilli powder: 1 tsp
- Biryani masala: 1 tsp
- Ginger Paste: 1tsp
- Garlic Paste:1 tsp
- Onions: 1 large chopped
- Coriander leaves: 2 tsp
- Mint leaves: 2tsp
- Kasoori Methi: ½ tsp
- Yoghurt: ½ cup
- Cumin seeds: 1 tsp
- Salt: as per taste
- Tomatoes: 1 chopped
- Oil: 2 tsp
- Take some oil in a pan and roast the eggs in it. Please mark slits in the eggs before roasting it.
- Add salt, cumin powder, turmeric powder and Biryani masala to the eggs while they are getting roasted. This would give a nice coat around the eggs.
- Take 1 tsp oil in separate wok and add onions to sauté.
- Once onions get brown add ginger garlic paste and let it cook for 2 mins.
- To this add tomatoes, kasoori methi,turmeric powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, red chilli powder and let it cook till masala is done.
- Now to this add curd and mix well.
- Add salt , coriander leaves, mint leaves and mix well.
- Add rice and mix it with masala well.
- Pour 1 ½ cup water and cover the lid to let the rice cook.
- Now once the rice is almost done but still not fully cooked, add eggs, coriander and mint leaves and Biryani masala.
- Add two tsp of clarified butter and close the lid tightly.
- Open it after 5 mins when Egg Biryani is ready to be served.