This recipe can be made in advanced by cooking the rice and meat then refrigerating them and then simply completing stage 4 when ready and increasing the cook time to roughly 30 minutes.

It doesn’t take long to make fresh though so that’s how I always prefer to do it.

You will need need an ovenproof pan with lid to layer the final dish, I currently use one like this

There are 4 stages to this Biryani

1. cooking the rice
2. making the biryani spice for the meat
3. cooking the onion and meat
4. layering and finishing the biryani

1-3 can all be done at the same time.

I (and your restaurant and takeaway) will always use pre-cooked meat for speed and convenience (check out my preparation recipes) but you can use any kind of meat and simply allow it to cook through thoroughly in step 3