Muntjac biriyani

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Glorious Game

By Ben Tish

Published 2019

  • About

One of Gymkhana restaurant’s signature dishes and the most popular! Hunting was once more of a pastime and royal sport. Dishes like patthar ke kebab cooked over hot stones and one-pot pilaus would be the usual fare. We find that lean and gamey venison lends itself beautifully to a rich and complex biryani. We layer the rice and the meat together in a clay pot which is sealed with a puff pastry lid and then baked to allow the steam to cook both in ‘dum’ (a classic method of preparing biryani