
Whenever we eat Indian food, I tend to opt for bread like fluffy naan baked in the tandoor or the flatbread, paratha because I've eaten way too much rice in my lifetime to eat basmati rice. However, every once in a while, we'll order one of the rice dishes, either biryani or pullao.
Both dishes are based on basmati rice, the fragrant, long-grain rice. Biryani comes from the Persian culture, in which the word “birian” means “fried.” For biryani, the rice is fried first in ghee (clarified butter), layered with cooked meats and spices, and cooked again all together. For pullao, rice, vegetables (usually no meat), stock and spices are all cooked together from the beginning. At least this is what I think because, like all the different languages, religions, and styles of cooking in India, there seems to many interpretations of biryani and pullao.

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5-01-2006 @10:23PM Susan said... I want to try pullao some day:) the food in your picture does look good:) thank you Sarah!
please share more Indian dishes
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