This chicken biryani is our homage to Britannia’s chicken berry pulao, using cranberries in place of the more authentic Persian barberries, which are tricky to find. (Despite much cajoling, Mr Kohinoor has never shared his wife’s famous recipe.) It is prepared in the kacchi style, originating from Hyderabad, in which marinated raw meat goes into the pot, to be cooked at the same time as the rice.
For the rice
300g basmati rice
2 tsp fine sea salt
Juice of ½ lime
For the base
500g skinless, boneless chicken thighs, each cut into 3 pieces
20g ginger paste
25g garlic paste
1 ½ tsp deggi mirch chilli powder
2 tsp fine sea salt
2 tsp ground cumin
1 ½ tsp garam masala
2 tbsp lime juice
100g full-fat Greek yoghurt
30ml vegetable oil
3 green chillies, each cut into 4 long strips
3cm fresh root ginger, cut into fine matchsticks
1 quantity crispy fried onions
6 large mint leaves, chopped
5g coriander leaves, chopped
For the topping
20g unsalted butter
3 tbsp double cream
1 quantity saffron water
35g dried cranberries
For other Dishoom recipes, please see Dishoom: from Bombay with love, our cookery book and highly subjective guide to Bombay.
The sun is momentarily out again. Calendars are fast filling up. There’s many a thing to do and many a friend to meet. And if we may kindly add to the excitement and the plan-making, here’s our list of what we’re looking forward to in September.
While we were at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, we caught Evening Conversations, an engaging show by Sudha Bhuchar. We caught up with her after the show to talk about her journey and her views on South Asian representation on screen, which you can read below. And for those who didn’t walk down the cobbled streets of the city or stumble into an impromptu performance this year, we highly recommend it for 2024.
Each year as August dawns, the streets and rooms and corners of Edinburgh fill with music, art, laughter and song. Wander into grand halls and pokey pubs, as the morning sun rises or in the dark of night, to see creations of every kind as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In honour of this wonderful celebration of the performing arts (and as a little treat), here’s a special edition Dishoom Loves, covering all the acts we’ve circled on our festival programme.
For anyone looking to learn or read more on Partition, this page holds a series of resources, for all ages, created by people knowledgeable and knowing about such matters. It is by no means definitive – we have simply found them to be useful, inspiring and accessible.