Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani
Hyderabadi dum biryani, where marinated chicken and part-cooked rice are layered raw and sealed to steam in their…
Basmati, short-grain, glutinous and everything cooked in it. 147 recipes on the site call for rice.
Hyderabadi dum biryani, where marinated chicken and part-cooked rice are layered raw and sealed to steam in their…
A breaded cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with Japanese curry sauce — thicker, sweeter and darker than an Indian…
Marinated raw lamb layered under half-cooked rice and sealed with dough, so the meat and rice cook together in…
The test of any wok cook: separate grains, wisps of egg through every mouthful, and that faint smoky note from the…
Japan's favourite comfort food: a panko-crusted chicken cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with a thick, gently…
Rice cooked in a reduced pepper and tomato base until the grains are stained deep orange and a smoky crust forms at…
The Valencian original, with chicken, rabbit and beans rather than seafood, cooked flat in a wide pan until a…
Cracking the coconut cream until the oil separates, then frying the paste in it, is the step that turns a flat curry…
Warm coconut-soaked glutinous rice with cold ripe mango and a salty coconut sauce poured over. Naturally vegan, and…
A bowl of rice topped with individually seasoned vegetables, marinated beef, a fried egg and gochujang, mixed…
Strips of seared beef in a mustard and soured cream sauce with mushrooms, done in twenty-five minutes. It is a fast…
Thinly sliced beef marinated in soy, pear and sesame, then seared fast so it caramelises without stewing. Twenty…
Chicken marinated in turmeric and lemongrass, threaded onto skewers, grilled over charcoal, and served with a peanut…
Real teriyaki is a technique, not a bottled sauce: chicken pan-fried until the skin crackles, then glazed in a…
Rice steamed in coconut milk with pandan, served with sambal, fried anchovies and peanuts, cucumber and a boiled or…
Chicken and vegetables in a coconut curry built by cracking the cream, frying the paste in the separated oil, and…
Chicken braised in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic and bay until the sauce reduces to a dark glaze. The Philippines'…
Cubed raw tuna dressed in soy, sesame and sweet onion over rice. Hawaiian in origin and Japanese in influence, and…
Thailand's most-eaten dish: minced pork fried hard with garlic and chillies, tossed with holy basil, and served over…
Chicken marinated overnight in scotch bonnet, allspice and thyme, then cooked slowly over indirect heat until the…
Louisiana rice cooked in one pot with the holy trinity, andouille sausage, chicken and prawns. The Creole version…
Indonesian fried rice built on kecap manis and terasi, topped with a fried egg and prawn crackers. Every household…
San Francisco's contribution to world food: a steamed flour tortilla wrapped around rice, beans, meat, cheese, salsa…
A whole chicken poached gently and plunged into ice, with rice cooked in the poaching stock and rendered chicken…
Rice paper rolls packed with prawns, pork, herbs and vermicelli, served cold with peanut dipping sauce. Nothing is…
Everything in gumbo rests on the roux: flour and fat cooked patiently to the colour of milk chocolate, then built…
Seasoned rice and a row of cooked fillings rolled in seaweed, brushed with sesame oil and cut into coins. Korea's…
Curry laksa: a coconut and spice paste soup with two kinds of noodle, prawns, tofu puffs and cockles, finished with…
Arroz rojo: rice toasted in oil until it smells nutty, then simmered in a tomato and garlic broth until every grain…
Chicken and egg over rice — the name means "parent and child" — simmered together in a sweet-savoury dashi until the…
Beef short ribs butterflied thin, marinated in soy, pear and sesame, and grilled over fire until the sugars char…
Peru's great fusion dish: beef stir-fried in a wok with onion, tomato and soy sauce, served with both chips and…
The inside-out roll that introduced the West to sushi: crab, avocado and cucumber wrapped in seasoned rice and…
Goat browned and stewed for hours with Jamaican curry powder, thyme and scotch bonnet until it falls off the bone…
The golden crust at the bottom of the rice pot, made deliberately: parboiled basmati steamed over a layer of yoghurt…
Finely diced pork belly braised in soy, five spice and fried shallots until it becomes a glossy, gelatinous sauce…
Flank steak simmered until it shreds, then stewed in a sofrito of peppers, onions, olives and cumin until the sauce…
Rice cooked in coconut milk with kidney beans, thyme, spring onion and a whole scotch bonnet left in and lifted out…
Steamed rice and lentil cakes, sour from natural fermentation and light as a sponge, served with a tamarind-sharp…
Thinly sliced beef and onion simmered for four minutes in dashi, soy and mirin, then tipped over rice. Japan's…
Roasted vegetables, a grain, a pulse and something green in one bowl, held together by a tahini dressing loosened…
A paper-thin, tangy fermented crêpe wrapped around spiced potato, with coconut chutney and sambar alongside. South…
Rice and cinnamon soaked overnight, blended and strained into a sweet, milky drink served over ice. The standard…
Thin rice vermicelli stained yellow with curry powder, tossed with prawns, char siu and egg. Despite the name it is…
Pork belly and vegetables in a broth soured with tamarind, sharp enough to make you sit up, eaten with rice and a…
The mildest and most aromatic Thai curry, carrying Persian and Indian influence in its cinnamon, cardamom and…
A Japanese diner classic: ketchup-seasoned chicken rice wrapped in a thin omelette, either folded neatly or, in the…
The Persian herb stew: several bunches of herbs fried down almost to black, with lamb, kidney beans and dried limes…
Fried rice with pineapple, cashews and a curry-scented edge, served in the hollowed shell if you are feeling…
Shaved ice over a layer of sweet beans, jellies and fruit, drowned in evaporated milk and topped with leche flan…
Rice slowly simmered in milk until it thickens and takes on a faint caramel colour, scented with cardamom and…
A hot pot cooked at the table: thin beef seared in a heavy iron pan, then simmered in a sweet soy warishita with…
Bahian fish stew of coconut milk, tomato, peppers and coriander, cooked in a clay pot and finished with dendê palm…
The best possible use for kimchi that has gone too sour to eat raw: simmered with pork belly and tofu into a…
Minced chicken tossed with toasted rice powder, lime, fish sauce and a great deal of mint and shallot. Isaan…
Chicken and cabbage stir-fried at the table in a gochujang marinade on a huge flat pan, with rice cakes and sweet…
The saffron risotto that Milan built its reputation on: bone-marrow rich, sunset gold, and finished with a violent…
Hanoi's great lunch: charred pork patties and belly slices floating in a warm sweet-sour dipping broth, with cold…
Pork shoulder rubbed with coarse Hawaiian salt and liquid smoke, wrapped in banana leaf and cooked for eight hours…
Lentils and rice cooked together under a mountain of onions fried almost to the point of burning. A dish of the poor…
Thin pork loin fried fast and finished in a ginger, soy and mirin sauce that reduces to a glaze in under a minute…
Brazil's national dish: black beans slow-cooked with an armoury of smoked and salted pork, served with rice, collard…
Rice, a hamburger patty, brown gravy and a fried egg, stacked in that order. Hawaii's answer to a plate lunch, and…
Rice cooked in eight times its volume of stock until the grains collapse into a silken porridge, served with century…
A silky Greek chicken and rice soup thickened with an egg and lemon emulsion rather than cream. Sharp, restorative…
Egypt's national street dish: layers of rice, lentils and pasta under a spiced tomato sauce, garlic vinegar and a…
Rice, meat and fried vegetables layered in a pot and flipped out whole at the table so it stands as a cake. The name…
Broken rice with a marinated grilled pork chop, shredded pork skin, a steamed egg meatloaf and a fried egg, all…
Shredded chicken in a creamy, mildly spicy sauce thickened with bread and walnuts, coloured yellow by ají amarillo…
Cabbage leaves rolled around pork, beef and rice, then braised in tomato until the leaves are soft enough to cut…
Grilled freshwater eel lacquered in a sweet soy tare, laid over rice with more tare spooned across. Eaten in the…
Chicken or duck braised in a sauce of ground walnuts and pomegranate molasses that cooks down over hours into…
Fermented rice and coconut batter swirled up the sides of a small bowl-shaped pan, with an egg cracked into the…
Indonesian turmeric chicken soup with a fragrant spice paste, served over noodles and rice with sambal, fried…
The Antioquian platter: beans, rice, chicharrón, chorizo, minced beef, a fried egg, plantain, avocado and an arepa…
Vine leaves rolled around rice, herbs, onion and pine nuts, packed tight in a pot and simmered under a plate with…
Yemeni lamb steamed over spiced rice until it falls off the bone, then finished with a piece of burning charcoal…
A whole small chicken stuffed with glutinous rice, ginseng, jujube and garlic, simmered until the broth turns milky…
Pork belly simmered for two and a half hours in dashi, soy and sake until a chopstick passes through it without…
Portuguese seafood rice, wetter than a paella and served in the pot, built on a tomato and coriander refogado with…
Fish steaks braised in a clay pot with caramel sauce, fish sauce and black pepper until the liquid reduces to a…
Bogotá chicken and potato soup, thickened by three kinds of potato breaking down at different rates, with guascas…
Sicilian rice balls with a molten mozzarella and ragù heart, breadcrumbed and fried until they shatter…
Pickled cabbage leaves rolled around pork, rice and dill, layered in a pot with smoked meat and cooked slowly for…
Tempeh fried until crisp then tossed through a sweet-hot sambal of chilli, shallot and palm sugar until every piece…
Jute leaves cooked to a green, silky stew with garlic and coriander fried in ghee and stirred in at the last second…
Rice and beans cooked together with dried sorghum leaves, which turn the whole pot a deep reddish brown, served with…
Thin rye shells crimped around a rice porridge filling, baked hot and brushed with melted butter, then topped with…
Chicken breast cooked hard in a dry pan, sliced over rice with edamame and a lemon-tahini dressing, built to put a…
The shells are the recipe. They are roasted, simmered into a stock, and that stock is reduced hard before any cream…
Extra butter, extra marshmallow, browned butter rather than plain, and pressed lightly rather than packed. Six…
Smoked haddock, curried rice and soft-boiled eggs — a Victorian breakfast borrowed from khichri and improved by the…
Venezuela's national plate: shredded beef, black beans, white rice and fried sweet plantain, served side by side and…
Dried beans, a sofrito built on cumin and green pepper, and a ham of smoke from nothing but paprika. Thick enough to…
Gemista, the Greek summer dish: peppers roasted before they are filled, so they are sweet and collapsing rather than…
A slab of glazed Spam on a block of sushi rice, wrapped in nori. Hawaii's most-eaten snack, sold from every petrol…
Firm tofu pressed, crumbed in panko and baked crisp, over a proper katsu sauce built from onions cooked down for…
Vine leaves rolled around rice, tomato, parsley and mint, packed tight into a pot and cooked in lemon and oil. The…
Fish poached, set aside, and its stock used to cook rice under a mountain of onions taken almost to black. Tripoli…
Chicken poached with whole spices, its broth used for the rice, the meat pulled and piled back on top with toasted…
Small courgettes cored and filled with rice and lamb, cooked upright in tomato. Coring them without going through…
Cabbage leaves rolled tight around rice and lamb, packed in layers with garlic and dried mint. The winter cousin of…
Stuffed courgettes finished in the garlic and mint yogurt rather than tomato. Milder than the tomato version and, in…
A dark spiced rice pudding made to celebrate a birth, soaked in caraway, anise and cinnamon and buried under soaked…
Egyptian rice, which is short-grain and cooked with broken vermicelli browned in butter first. The default starch…
Layers of fried bread, rice and slow-cooked lamb under a sharp garlic and vinegar tomato sauce. The dish of Eid and…
Cabbage leaves rolled thin around a herb-heavy rice filling with no meat in it, packed flat and cooked in tomato…
The Egyptian fisherman’s rice: fish fried rather than poached, rice cooked in the frying oil and stock, and the…
Sausage casings filled with spiced rice and mince, boiled and then fried until they blister. Fiddly, cheap, and one…
Rice pudding cooked on the hob until it thickens by itself, with no eggs and no oven. Served cold in glasses with…
A cold white drink of soaked rice and coconut blended with milk and sugar, sold from urns in Ramadan. Cloudy, sweet…
Long green peppers stuffed with spiced meat and rice and braised in a red sauce until the skins blister and slip…
The rice of Djerba: steamed rather than boiled, mixed through with lamb, herbs and spinach until it is green and…
Sausage casings filled with rice, offal, herbs and a great deal of chard, simmered and then sliced into a stew. The…
Courgettes cooked down with rice and bound with egg and cheese, from Provence. The rice is cooked in the courgette…
Rice cooked slowly in vanilla milk until it is creamy but the grains still hold. Served warm in the bowl it was…
Roman rice croquettes with a piece of mozzarella at the centre that pulls into a thread when you bite it. Supplì al…
Rice cooked in mushroom stock made from the soaking water of dried porcini. That water is the flavour and pouring it…
Rice blackened with cuttlefish ink, the cuttlefish itself cooked into it. Venice, and it should be genuinely black…
Venetian rice and peas, looser than a risotto and eaten with a spoon. Served to the Doge every 25 April and still…
Anglo-Indian curried soup, invented in Madras for officers who wanted a soup course and were given pepper water…
Pudding rice, milk, sugar and nutmeg baked for two hours until a brown skin forms on top. The skin is the entire…
Sticky rice packed around chicken, sausage and mushroom in a lotus leaf and steamed until the leaf perfumes the…
Fried rice with prawns, char siu and egg, where every grain is separate and coated in yolk. The version everything…
Rice cooked in a clay pot with sausage and chicken laid on top, until a crisp golden crust forms on the base that…
Glutinous rice packed with pork belly and salted egg yolk into a bamboo-leaf pyramid, tied with string and boiled…
Glutinous rice packed into a bowl lined with candied fruit around a core of red bean paste, steamed and turned out…
Fried rice with a spoonful of red schezwan sauce through it. Nothing to do with Sichuan, everything to do with the…
Rice and split moong cooked soft together with turmeric and ghee. What Indian households eat when they are ill, and…
Vegetables and part-cooked rice layered with saffron milk and fried onion, then sealed and steamed. The dum method…
Flattened rice rinsed, tossed with turmeric, mustard seed and peanuts, and eaten within ten minutes. Central India's…
A thick dosa batter poured small and pressed with onion, tomato and chilli. Softer than a dosa and easier to get…
Cold rice fried hard with sour kimchi and topped with a fried egg. Twenty-five minutes, and better the older the…
Rice pressed round a filling and wrapped in a band of nori. Japan's packed lunch, and the reason convenience stores…
Grilled beef sliced across the grain and served with nam jim jaew, a roasted rice and chilli dipping sauce. The…
Grilled lemongrass pork over cold rice vermicelli with herbs, pickle and nuoc cham poured over. A hot and cold bowl…
Rice simmered slowly in milk with a cinnamon stick and a strip of lime peel. Forty-five minutes, mostly unattended.
Rice and orzo cooked in butter until every grain is separate. Thirty minutes, and it goes with almost everything…
Puffed rice tossed at the last second with chutneys, onion, potato and sev. Bombay beach food, and it must be eaten…
Oxtail simmered three hours and finished in a thick peanut sauce, eaten with salted shrimp paste on the side.
Lamb cooked in fermented yoghurt, spread over rice and flatbread with toasted nuts. Jordan's national dish, and a…
Rice simmered in dashi with egg stirred through. Thirty minutes, and what Japanese households make from yesterday's…
A pork cutlet simmered for ninety seconds in dashi and onion with egg poured over, slid onto rice. Forty minutes.
A Thai omelette dropped into deep hot oil so it puffs and crisps at the edges. Thirteen minutes, and it goes on rice.
Coconut pancakes cooked in a dimpled pan, crisp underneath and molten in the middle, served two stuck together.
A tomato and crab broth with floating clouds of crab and egg, over rice vermicelli. Sharper and lighter than phở.
Cooked rice fried on a griddle with pav bhaji masala and vegetables. Twenty minutes and unmistakably Bombay.