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Post by confuzzled dude Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:14 pm

The 400-year-old city of Hyderabad is linked in popular mind for its signature biriyani as much as it is with the exquisitely constructed Charminar monument.

The biriyani may have become a local landmark, but that doesn't stop people from asking, "Where did it come to India from and when?"

The lazy "scholars" are quick to opine that it was the genius of Indian people who transformed the "Cinderella of Central Asian pilaff" into the sparkling biriyani, but it is difficult to buy this "thesis".

A pulav (as pilaff is called in India) is a pulav - call it by any name - and a biriyani is a biriyani - belonging to a very different species.

There can be little doubt that biriyani originated in Iran. Even the name biriyani can be traced to the original Persian "birinj biriyan" - literally, fried rice.

In Iran, the deg (pot) is put on dum (slow cooking to allow the marinated meat to cook in its own juices and perfectly with layered rice and aromatic substances), and the rice is gently fried.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36423412

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Post by Hellsangel Fri Jul 15, 2016 9:02 pm

The author seems to need a geography lesson:


How easily we forget that Iran is next door to this land-locked nation and Persian language isn't the only element in the shared inheritance.
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