Looking for a recipe called Biriyani

I took an Indian cooking class at Johnson &Wales and LOVED it. From it I learned that

if you get an Indian spice cabinet, Indian cooking is really easy to come together--but often the length of the spices is daunting.
That said, at Indian groceries here I have bought a Biriyani "packet" that you add to your meat and veggies and it was quite good.
I think now many supermarkets carry "simmer sauces" and Biriyani is one of them I think. They are quite good, IMO.

 
One of the few things I buy in a jar. Patak's is so good, the trouble to make it isn't worth it.

In fact, it's my lazy dish. I mix raw basmati with yogurt and biryani and layer it around boneless chicken breasts, bake it covered. Done. Delicious.

 
I also use the Patak Biryani paste. The whole family loves it.

My favorite is lamb biryani, and I always add lentils (because that's how it came in South Africa), preferably the tiny black Beluga lentils. It makes a good vegetarian dish with lots of lentils. Once on a plane, I told the Indian woman sitting next to me how much I used to enjoy South African canned breyani (SA name). I thought she would pass out from horror, so I quickly told her that I made my own, nowadays. She was so relieved that she didn't even frown on my using a jarred paste. smileys/smile.gif I prefer the paste - I can get spice mixes from the Indian store nearby, but the whole spices seem to stick in my teeth, for some reason.

The Maya Kaimal sauces are excellent, but I haven't used them for biryani.

 
Convenience foods at ethnic groceries

Every culture seems to have shortcut things at the grocery. The Indian/Pakistani grocery I go to has an entire aisle of packets of different kinds of meal spice packets. Dozens of kinds of Biriyani packets, or whatever other dish, ready to throw together with meat, or dal, or paneer and a few other things for a meal. Kind of like McCormicks, but Indian, and many are very good. Tooba is one brand I like. I also keep a jar of their ginger paste in the fridge at all times.

At the Mexican market it is all kinds of house marinated or spice rubbed meat and chicken. Ready to throw in a skillet or on the grill.

 
Sorry, I had the wrong brand. This is the one I use

Ingredients: Salt, Plum, Red Chilli, Cardamom, Cinnamon, Garlic, Turmeric, Ginger, Mango Powder, Mace, Nutmeg, Black Pepper, Clove, Amorphous Silicon Dioxide (E551) as Articaking Agent, Citric Acid (E330), Cumin Seed, Artificial Sindhi Biryani Flavour

But I usually just go down the street to Amma's. Southern Vegetarian Indian cuisine and I'm usually the only occidental in the restaurant. Why cook when you can get the real deal cheap.

https://wholesale.khanapakana.com/spices/spice-blends/national-sindhi-biryani-spice-mix-50-grams-1-76-oz/

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