Featured Dish – Chicken Tikka Biryani

Our Featured Dish for July is the fantastic Chicken Tikka Biryani.

The biryani is a meal in itself – combining basmati rice with meat which are then cooked with flavoursome herbs to create a fantastic dish.  This is then served with a curry sauce of mixed vegetables to give a filling meal in every sense.

Historically, a biryani is a classic Muslim dish – and originates from the Persian word ‘Birian’.  Birian means ‘Fried before Cooking’ – and this comes from the original technique of frying the rice used in the dish in ghee.   Ghee remains a very important ingredient dish – and the lovely buttery flavour permeates through the whole dish.

This month we are encouraging you to give our Chicken Tikka Biryani a try.  We follow the recipe above – but use lovely chicken tikka – freshly barbecued in the tandoor (clay oven) to give that classic Indian taste.  Because of the combination of rice, meat and vegetable curry this is one you can enjoy without any additional dishes (that is why it is a bit more expensive than our standard dishes).

Being big eaters – this is one dish we can’t resist eating with some lovely fresh chapattis – perfect for ripping pieces off and wrapping up some little parcels of flavour – you won’t even need to use cutlery!