Bengali Muslim (Dhaka & Kolkata)
Dhaka Kacchi Biryani
Bangladesh's wedding centerpiece: raw marinated mutton layered under chinigura or kalijira rice with ghee, potato, and mawa, sealed and slow-cooked from raw — intensely rich, faintly sweet, and unmissable at any Dhaka celebration.
6 hr 30 min · Serves 8 · Takes some skill
8
Ingredients
Marinade
Rice
Layer
Finish
Method
Start cooking mode- Prep 300 min · Cook 90 min · 390 min total
- hard
- 1
Marinate the raw mutton for several hours in yogurt, birista, ginger-garlic, and kacchi masala.
- 2
Layer raw marinated meat at the base with fried whole potatoes; top with parboiled chinigura rice, ghee, mawa, saffron milk, and kewra.
- 3
Seal the pot (dough lute) and cook from raw on very low heat — traditionally with coals on the lid — until meat and rice finish together.
Notes and swaps
- Not assessed yet. Check each ingredient if you have an allergy.
