Biryani over time
267 of the 319 recipes carry a publication date, from 2007 to 2026. Below: how many pages each year, whether the typical pot changed between the oldest and newest, and the oldest and newest pages themselves.
A date here is the one the page gives for itself: when it was published, or last updated. Sites often refresh an old recipe and its date together, so read these as when the pages went up, not when the recipes were created.
Recipes per year
Dated pages by the year they give. Shading marks the periods compared below.
How the typical pot changed
No ingredient shows a clear change between biryani pages dated before 2018 and those dated 2024 or later. The medians move a little from period to period, but by no more than chance would with this many recipes.
| Per 100 g uncooked rice | Before 201869 recipes | 2018 to 202068 recipes | 2021 to 202371 recipes | 2024 and later59 recipes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meat, fish or eggNo clear change | 135% | 131% | 123% | 164% |
| YogurtNo clear change | 33% | 30% | 31% | 33% |
| OnionsNo clear change | 60% | 54% | 48% | 73% |
| Ghee or oilNo clear change | 14% | 14% | 15% | 16% |
| Mint and corianderNo clear change | 1.1% | 1.4% | 1.1% | 0.9% |
| SpicesNo clear change | 4.2% | 4.3% | 4.6% | 5.3% |
| PotatoesNo clear change | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| SaltNo clear change | 0% | 1.2% | 1.3% | 0% |
Each cell is the median in that period: grams of the ingredient per 100 g of uncooked rice. Higher and lower compare the newest period with the oldest, only where the change is clear (see how below). Periods are cut at year boundaries so each holds about the same number of recipes.
Ingredients that gained or lost ground
Share of each period's recipes that list the ingredient. Only changes between the oldest and newest periods too large to be likely chance are listed.
| Recipes using | Before 2018 | 2018 to 2020 | 2021 to 2023 | 2024 and later |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TurmericMore common | 56% | 76% | 69% | 83% |
Oldest and newest pages
Oldest dates
Jul 27, 2007
Riz à la pakistanaise (biryani) : la meilleure recette · marmiton.orgFeb 24, 2008
Chicken biryani "délice du kérala" · ptitchef.comApr 17, 2008
Riz biryani et son poulet au yaourt et garam masala · ptitchef.comMay 20, 2008
Biriyani express : la meilleure recette · marmiton.orgJun 7, 2008
Hyderabadi Vegetable Biryani Recipe | Vegetable Dum Biryani · archanaskitchen.com
Newest dates
Sep 16, 2026
Lamb Biryani · foodandhome.co.zaJun 9, 2026
Pakistani Prawn Biryani Recipe (Shrimp Biryani) · pakistaneats.comJun 2, 2026
Kathal Biryani · gutekueche.atJun 2, 2026
Chicken Biryani · gutekueche.atMay 27, 2026
Biryani met kip · leukerecepten.nl
How the dates are read
Each date is the publication date in the recipe page's own structured data. 42 of the 319 recipes have none, or one without a year (such as “December 3”), and are left out.
10 more carry a date their site gave to many pages at once, which marks a site move or redesign rather than a publication: 2006-10-23 on marmiton.org (74 pages across Recipe Lab, 5 of them here), 2016-11-18 on foodnetwork.com (20 pages across Recipe Lab, 2 of them here) and 2015-05-09 on foodnetwork.com (9 pages across Recipe Lab, 2 of them here), and 1 more like it. They are left out too.
A change counts as clear when the newest period's median differs from the oldest period's by at least a tenth and a rank test puts the gap at 2.5 standard errors or more. For the share of recipes using an ingredient, the bar is 3 standard errors and 8 percentage points. Every ingredient is tested, so a lower bar would flag chance differences on most pages.
2026 is still in progress, so its bar is short for a reason that has nothing to do with cooking.