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BIRYANI- The gift to Bengal from the Nawab

BIRYANI - The word is enough to make anyone drool. There are very rare people who do not like a plate of steaming biryani wi th the soft chunk of meat (chicken/mutton) and of course a big piece of love i.e. The potato. YES …. You heard that right... A piece of aloo or potato what makes a Bengal biryani different from others. In every state we can find biryani and every state has their own style of making biryani, some like it spicy whereas some like it subtle. Each one have sometimes or the other, have relished a plate of mouthwatering biryani but do we really know from where Aloo was included in the Biryani? Let us take a look into the glorious history of Bengali- style Biryani that makes it Unique from the other states of India: The word ‘Biryani’ comes from a Persian word called ‘Birian’, which means fried before cooking. The Mughal empire has brought this gem with them during their rule in India. But the Nawab of Lucknow i.e. Nawab Wajid Ali Shah during his exile period has...