Hyderabadi egg dum biryani | Restaurant style anda biryani

Egg dum biryani recipe – Hyderabadi egg dum biryani made with basmati rice, spices, herbs, yogurt and saffron. Biryani is an amazing invention of the mughals and had been loved across the globe for its unique aroma, flavor & taste. This Hyderabadi egg biryani is one of our favorites at home and turns out very delicious.

This hyderabadi egg biryani may be a good addition to your party or weekend menu. Yes, its very easy and even a beginner can make this without difficulty.

We love eggs in any form and I most often find ways to simplify my dinner with eggs. Egg curry, egg bhurji, omelette are most often there for the dinner.

Sometimes I also make a simple quick one pot egg biryani for our dinner. I also make this kerala style egg roast biryani if I have some coconut milk.
But this hyderabadi egg dum biryani is something I would choose when I plan for a special meal.

It goes so well with a simple raita or shorba.

How to make hyderabadi egg biryani

1. Hard boil eggs, remove the shells. Pierce with fork randomly or make incisions on 3 eggs. Set them aside.

2. Wash and soak rice for about 20 to 25 minutes. Drain off water. Bring 5 cups of water to a boil, add few green cardamoms, half tsp. shahi jeera and rice to the boiling water. Cook till al dente.

Fully cooked but grainy and firm. Under cooked rice doesn’t work well for this recipe, since eggs do not release any moisture like meat or veggies, rice doesn’t get cooked further during the dum process. Drain the rice to a colander. Set this aside.

3. You can skip this step if using ready made fried onions. Heat oil in a pan, add thinly sliced onions and fry until golden. Set these aside to a plate. Also set aside half of the oil to a small bowl. Turn off the stove as the pan will be very hot now.

4. Soak a pinch of saffron in 3 tbsp. hot milk. Also set aside kewra water.

5. Turn on the stove. Add whole spices to the pan and allow them to sizzle.

6. Add ginger garlic paste, green chili and fry until the raw smell goes off.

7. Add red chili powder and biryani masala. Give a quick stir.

8. Add yogurt, salt and mint leaves. Stir and cook.

9. Add the eggs and 3/4 portion of the fried onions.

10. Stir and cook on a medium flame till the gravy thickens. The gravy must look thick and uniform of a flowing consistency. Switch off the stove and set the pan away from the burner otherwise the gravy tends to get cooked further and the quantity may reduce.

11. Layer the rice in the handi or pot.

12. Evenly layer the egg mixture over the rice. The quantity is less, but try to spread it well evenly.

13. Layer with rice again.

14. This step is optional. If you like spicy egg biryani with fried eggs, then i suggest this. Put back the same pan on the stove and heat it with the oil we had set aside earlier. Fry the eggs lightly. Add red chili powder, a pinch of salt and biryani masala or garam masala.

15. Flip the eggs. Switch off the stove. Do not over fry.

16. Pour the saffron milk over the rice, add the left over fried onions, few mint and coriander leaves. Transfer the eggs gently to the biryani, also pour the spiced oil from the pan. Pour the oil to the rice and not to the eggs.

17. Cover the pot. You can use a aluminum foil to seal the pot or a moist cloth too works well. Place a lid over it. I just went ahead using a tight and heavy lid. Heat a tawa or a pan, When it turns hot, place this dum pot over the hot tawa and set the flame to very low.

Cook it this way for 10 minutes. Switch off and allow it to rest for another 10 minutes. If you do not own a tawa, you can use any heavy bottom pan or pot. Any stainless steel or cast iron pans too work well. I have used stainless pressure pan. Do not use nonstick tawa as the coating gets damaged.

Serve with raita or shorba. You can find the raita recipes here, veg shorba recipe here and hyderabadi mirchi ka salan.

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Hyderabadi egg biryani recipe