I have been procrastinating to blog this recipe for quite some time and today, I had to post it. Today is the last day for the Rice Mela and had to get to work as soon as I woke up. I did not prepare the biryani today, I just had to draft the post, select the picture to include in the post and water mark it. Lot of work, right? It took me almost the same amount or even more time than cooking the recipe from the scratch. So, you see, I had to start working on it, first thing in the morning, to meet the deadline 🙂 .
Total Time: 1 hr
Serves: 4-5
- 6 Eggs
- 1/3 – ½ cup Oil
- 1 large Onion sliced
- ¼ cup Mint Leaves chopped
- 2-3 tsp ginger Garlic Paste
- 6 Green Chilies cut length wise
- ¾ cup Frozen Green Peas
- ½ tsp Chili Powder
- ½ tsp Biryani Masala (I Used Shaan biryani masala)
- ¼ tsp Garam Masala (I used store bought Rajah brand)
- 1 tbsp. Salt (this is an approximate measure. I have not measured it. Adjust to taste)
- ¾ cup Yogurt
- ½ lime juice or 2-3 tbsp lime juice
- ½ cup Cilantro/Kotmir chopped
- 1/3 cup Milk
- Few strands of Saffron
- Soaking the Rice
- 3 cups Rice
- 4-6 Cardamoms
- 3-4 Cloves
- ½” Cinnamon
- ½ tsp Saha Jeera/Black Jeera/Caraway seeds
- 2 Bay Leaves
- 1 Biryani Flower
- Boil Eggs, peel and make some slits on it or poke it with a fork or a knife.
- Wash rice wash and soak in 4 cups of water. Ratio here is 1cup rice: 1 1/3 cup water. Add all the ingredients listed under soaking the rice. Soak the rice for 10-15. Cook the rice in rice cooker or on a stove top. I prefer rice cooker, because I don’t have to keep an eye on it. Once the rice is done let it sit for 10 minutes before arranging it for dum.
- In a pan add all the oil, keeping aside 2 tbsp of for later use. Fry sliced onion until golden brown and remove ½ of the browned onions and keep it aside.
- To the remaining onion, add mint, ginger garlic paste, green chilies and saute for a minute.
- Add frozen peas and saute for a few seconds.
- Add chili powder, garam masala, biryani masala, salt and boiled eggs. Cook until the spices are well coated to the eggs.
- Add beaten yogurt and saute until oil separates.
- Add lime juice and half of the cilantro and mix well and turn of the heat.
- Taste the mixture for salt and add salt if required.
- Add saffron to milk and heat for a minute in the microwave.
- Take a wide sauce pan with a lid and grease the pan with oil. Spread ½ the cooked rice in it. Transfer the egg mixture to the sauce pan to make the second layer. Follow this layer with the remaining rice. Sprinkle remaining oil, saffron milk, fried onions and the remaining chopped cilantro. Cover the pan with a well fitted lid. Seal the pan with aluminum foil to seal the steam from escaping from the pan.
- Cook it on medium heat for 3-5 minutes until the pan and the rice inside gets warm. Reduce the heat to low and cook it for another 10-12 minutes. This step can be done in the oven too. Refer to the 2nd point in the notes section below.
- Serve hot with your favorite raita or gravy.
- Green peas can be substituted with ones choice of vegetables or with cashews and raisins. I personally don’t like nuts in my biryani. If one likes nuts and raisins, it can be substituted with green peas.
- Last step of the cooking can be done in the oven too. Pre-heat the oven to 400F. Arrange the rice and egg mixture in layers in an oven proof dish. Cover the dish with an aluminum foil. Once the oven is pre-heated, reduce the temperature to 350F and bake the rice for 20 minutes or until done. Oven temperatures vary from oven to oven so check the rice before removing it from the oven.
If you like biryani, you may also like
Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani
Hyderabadi Mutton Biryani
I am sending Egg Dum Biryani, Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani and Hyderabadi Mutton Biryani to Rice Mela, hosted by Srivalli.
varsha says
Looks absolutely divine..I love eggs..:)
Ramya says
I really really gt tempted and i am gonna try this for tmrws lunch and will keep u posted..Thanks for sharing 🙂
romaspace says
Nice looking biryani. Patiently cooked to perfection!
Ramya says
Wow looks great will sure try this
romaspace says
biryani looks exquisite !
Ramya says
As I said, I tried this Usha. Its simple and simply tasty. We enjoyed it.
Mona says
Looks exotic!
sunita says
Hi there,
Thanks for the commment dear.I am glad you liked my art work.
Your blog is tooo good grl. Everything is sooo perfectly arranged ,and yes yummy food…will sure try some recipes…
Thanks Sunita!
Shruthi Hebbur says
I tried this today. it came out awesome USHA. Thank u
Thanks for letting me know.
indosungod says
when is the mint added, I guess it is added after the green chilies?
You can add it with the green chillies. Thank you for bring this to my notice. I had not realized that I forgot to mention it.
Anita says
Is “Biryani flower” the same as “star anise”?
Anita, Biryani Flower is not Star Anise. I get it from India. I have not seen it in Indian grocery stores in the US. It is used a lot in India to make biryani. You can omit this ingredient if you don’t have it. It looks like this
subrata kanta says
Looks great the colour of Biryani. Tonight I am
going to cook exept Biryani flower,not available in Dubai and let u know the Taste
Thanks for recipe
I usually bring it from Inida. You can omit it.
Neeta Nadkarni-Karjodkar says
Hi there…….your egg biryani recipe is just gr8.I tried out the the recipe with some variations (hope you dnt mind that!).But still credit goes to you for such gr8 recipe.
usha says
Hi Neeta, I don’t mind it at all… i am glad you liked the recipe! Let me know the variations so that I will try it too, the next time I prepare it.
sara says
i am sorry. u have changed the look of ur blog. i thought it was somme else copying ur blog
usha says
Sara, you almost gave me a heart attack with your earlier comment.. 🙂 I am not publishing that comment though..
Yes, I changed the look of the blog and I am not liking it very much. I think I will switch back to the old look.
sara says
thank you. but i am so fond of ur recipes that i was mad who couldnt see some else copying ur blog. anyway wanted to say that ur recipes are just superb and i have tried almost all biryani and shorva recipes and they have come excellent. my husband is an avid lover of eggs and he takes them very seriously..he loved the egg biryani i made using ur recipe. thank you so much
sneha jha says
God Bless you for this. I followed exactly the same steps and I ended up making it like a Pro…Here’s a link to my photobucket picture of my anda dum biryani.
http://i1150.photobucket.com/albums/o604/Sneha_Jha/IMG_1360.jpg
thanks thanks thanks.
MySpicyKitchen says
Sneha, thanks for trying the recipe! The picture looks delicious!
Lakshmi Kalyani says
Usha, I just tried out this recipe and it came very well… should we add salt while cooking the rice? i did not add it, and it came out little bland due to it… thanks for the easy and yummy recipe!!
raj says
COuld you please update regarding the salt.
I always mess up adding the right quantity
MySpicyKitchen says
Raj, sorry for the late reply. I missed your message. Try about 1 tbsp. (tablespoon) of salt. I use morton iodized salt. To be on the safe side, try 1 3/4 tbsp. and adjust it accordingly.
Updated the recipe with salt requirements. Actually, I am glad you brought it up. I just realized that I did not even mention salt in the recipe..