Lucknowi Biryani

Lucknowi or Awadhi

Dassana Amit · vegrecipesofindia.com · 2016 · 4

Against 319 biryani recipes

No meat, fish or egg, unlike 73% of recipes and more potatoes than 96%.

How it compares

Against the typical pot: the median of 319 biryani recipes, per 100 g of uncooked rice.

No meat, fish or egg at all, where 73% of recipes use some (most of those 117 to 206% of the uncooked rice weight).
More potatoes than 96% of recipes: 178% of the uncooked rice weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
No mint and coriander at all, where 62% of recipes use some (most of those 1 to 3.6% of the uncooked rice weight).

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

300 grams sella basmati rice (or regular basmati rice or 1.5 cups sella basmati rice)300 g
5 to 6 cups water≈ 1304 g
1 teaspoon salt (or add as required)≈ 6 g
1 tej patta ((indian bay leaf))≈ 0.2 g
2 green cardamoms≈ 0.5 g
½ inch cinnamon≈ 1.5 g
2 clovesn/a
2 to 2.5 cups chopped mixed vegetables (like carrots, potato, cauliflower, capsicum, french beans, mushrooms)≈ 533 g
⅓ cup green peas≈ 79 g
2 tablespoons ghee≈ 27 g
1 inch cinnamon≈ 3 g
2 black cardamoms≈ 0.5 g
1 mace flowern/a
85 grams onions (or ¾ cup chopped onions or 1 medium to large onion, thinly sliced)85 g
1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste (or ½ inch ginger and 4 to 5 garlic cloves - crushed to a paste in a mortar pestle)≈ 5 g
1 teaspoon red chilli powder (or yellow chilli powder)≈ 2.7 g
1 teaspoon garam masala (- do make sure that the garam masala powder has coriander seeds in it)≈ 2.5 g
1 cup water≈ 237 g
¼ cup curd ((yogurt))≈ 61 g
salt (as required)n/a
1 pinch of saffron strands≈ 0.4 g
⅓ cup warm milk≈ 81 g
½ to 1 tablespoon ghee≈ 10 g
2 teaspoons kewra water (or rose water or meetha ittar)≈ 10 g
⅓ cup of the stock in which the rice was cooked≈ 62 g
½ cup thinly sliced onions≈ 58 g
1 tablespoon ghee≈ 14 g

uncooked rice 300 gin all 2883 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of uncooked rice, and where that falls among all 319 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by percentages of the uncooked rice weight: meat, fish or egg, yogurt, onions, ghee or oil, mint and coriander, spices, potatoes, salt.