Chicken Biryani Mughal Style

The exact origins of the biryani are often debated, but a clue may be in its Persian name, birian, meaning ‘fried before cooking’ and the word birinj which means rice. The royal courts of the Mughals adopted the biryani style of cooking and as the empire spread, so too did different techniques of preparing the dish. Today, India has a wide variety of biryani styles, each proclaiming to be superior! Some contain potatoes (Kolkata style), some use turmeric, some partially cook t