This recipe for egg biryani is very simple and easy to make at your home. It can serve as a delicious weekend lunch/dinner. This tasty egg recipe hardly takes 45-60 minutes to cook including boiling of eggs. Ideally, we should use solid Indian spices for cooking. These spices give this recipe a rich aroma and flavour. It has such a taste that no biryani lover can resist it.
The ingredients of this recipe are very generic and easily available in your kitchen. The most important ingredient of this recipe is spices. Make sure you have the right spices and biryani special-long grain rice to cook this recipe. The dum method of cooking is used to cook this recipe to preserve the maximum aroma from spices.
Here is the recipe for egg biryani:
Ingredients
- 400 gms long-grain biryani rice
- 4 eggs
- 3-4 tsp cooking oil
- ¼ tsp red chilli powder
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
- 2 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste
- 1 tsp Lemon Juice
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 2-3 bay leaves
- 3-4 cloves
- 7-10 black peppercorns
- 1 Cinnamon Sticks
- 2-4 cardamom pods
- 2-4 black cardamom pods
- 1-2 whole star anise
- 1 tsp biryani masala
- 1 stalk of fresh coriander leaves
- 1 stalk of fresh mint leaves
- 3-4 green chilli
- 10-15 curry leaves
- Salt to taste
- Water
Method
- The first step to prepare this recipe is to boil the egg properly in a pan
- Take the boiled eggs and remove the hard shells and make pores in the eggs with the toothpick. This process will help to absorb the flavour of spices
- Be cautious about making pores, it shouldn’t destroy the shape of the egg
- Take a pan with the lid and put it over the flame
- Once the pan gets heated, add cooking oil/ ghee to it and heat the oil for 2-3 minutes
- Add turmeric powder and red chilli powder to the heated oil
- Add boiled egg into the pan and fry it for 4-5 minutes or until the eggs get golden brown
- Take out the eggs from the pan and add spices (cumin seeds, bay leaves, cardamom, black pepper, cinnamon, cloves, star anise) to the pan, and heat the mixture for 2-3 minutes
- Add ginger-garlic paste to the mixture and cook it for 4-5 minutes,
- Add biryani powder to the mixture and cook the mixture till the spices are full cooked
- Add water to the mixture required to cook the rice properly
- Add curry leaves and salt as per the taste to the mixture
- Once the mixture starts boiling add the fried boiled eggs to the mixture, finely chopped coriander leaves, chilli and mint leaves to the mixture
- Cover the lid of the pan and lower the flame to the lowest level and let it cook for 15-20 minutes or the rice is properly cooked
- Your homemade biryani recipe is ready to be served
This recipe of egg biryani is well served with raita or curd. Try to prepare vegetable raita to savour the delicacies of this mouth-watering biryani recipe.
