Butter Chicken Rice Bake

Roz Biram

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4-6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Egypt: Recipes and stories from an ancient land

By Suzanne Zeidy and Rawah Badrawi

Published 2026

  • About

This dish is known as Biram Zou Zou in Cairo high society and named after its creator, Zeinab Abdulla Hanem - a formidable and elegant matriarch from Cairo’s upscale Garden City district. Her biram is a modern take on the classic roz muammar of her Nile Delta hometown Kafr el Sheikh, where rice and birds are cooked in clay pots with plenty of dairy. Zou Zou turned this rustic dish into a sophisticated chicken rice bake - caramel-coloured on the outside