Friday, May 2, 2008

Short Course for Biryani

I love to eat and interesting bout the recipies, specially from other country. Me and Mba Heni has a short course from Bushra on how to cook Biriyani (traditional food from Bangladesh). We are interested to the unique taste and how to serve. So, one day before, i called Bushra and asked to her please teach us to cook biryani, before she going back to her country (Bangladesh).

We came to Bushra's apartment at 2.30 and my husband deliver us. Heni came with her two daughters (Nadia and Dinda) and we directly started to cook Biryani. That day Bushra decided to cooked chicken biryani. We can cook Biryani also with mutton and beef. Before we started to cook usually we prepared meat, special rice and all condiments. The rice is different with daily rice we used, the rice is more longer and smaller (called: Basmati rice). Basicly, Biryani made from mixture of more than 5 condiments, rice, meat or vegetable and yoghurt. These are generally condiments, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, chili pepper, coriander, bay leaves, ginger, onions, turmeric and yoghurt. Many steps to cooking this food, we used two fry pans, first cooked the meat and second pan to fry the rice, in this step, rice should half cooked. after finished cooking meat and rice, then put rice and meat together and mixed in one pan, after that cook again until rice cooked well. Or we also can use rice cooker to do that and takes time around 20-30 minutes. (Bushra..that is right??)





































["Chef Bushra" teach us how to mix well all the condiments]


To cooked biryani from prepared until finish takes time almost 3 hour. After we finish cooked Biryani, at 7 we start to take a dinner with Biryani ofcourse and eggcurry (yummy). That was delicious food, tasty and spicy. I should say thanx to Bushra and her husband to spare their time and place to teach us. That night was like a small "Biryani's" party. Aji( Bushra's husband) said, Biryani usually serve for special occasion and special person. So, my husband suddenly said to Aji, "Wow, thank you both..to serve Biryani to us"..(^_^)..Ofcourse, we all are special person.. We had a really good time that night.

Ps: In Japan too difficult to find the complete condiments, specially in Saga. But, we can order from other city like Tokyo, one company there provide many kinds of condiments.

-Sya

1 comment:

Dr.M.Azizul Moqsud said...

Tessa

Its great to c the famous Biriyani rece..here.It seems so tasty!!

I am waiting to taste your Biriyani..to certify the authenticity ..

Azi from Bangladesh