Isfahani Beryani

Beryani is one of the delicious Persian food like a burger which belongs to the Isfahan province.

Beryani is one of the well-known native food in Isfahan. Beryani isn’t cooked with other foods. It is prepared and served in specific places because this food is valuable for local people in Isfahan. It is interesting to know that just the noble people of Isfahan call this food as beryan, not Beryani.

• History of Beryani
   

This delicious food that is like a burger dates back to the Safavid era. They had cooked it in the Tandoor. Tandoor is like a cylindrical clay or metal oven used in cooking and baking. During the Safavid era Tandoor was in the ground, but in the Qajar era, has turned into exterior Tanoor. It is better to know that 68 stores sold Biryani in Isfahan during the Qajar era.

• Ingredients of Beryani
   

  If you want to test this yummy food, you have to know about the recipes of it. At first, you should prepare the Ingredients, then bake them. The ingredients which you may need are as follows:
   
  • Shank, meat chop, lung of a sheep or Jegar-Sefid, onion, turmeric, cinnamon, salt, black pepper, saffron, dried mint, walnut, pistachio slice, and almond slice.

• Recipe of Beryani
   

  The cooking of Beryani, this tasty food, consists of three-steps as follows:
   
  • First step: You need to cook meat and shank with water, turmeric, salt, and onion. So at first, chop the onion and cook it with four cup of water and a few spoons of liquid oil. It takes 30 minutes for cooking after boiling water. Pay attention to add salt at the end process of cooking. If you add it at first, the meat will become difficult to chew. When the meat became soft and baked keep the juice that comes from meat as it cooks.
     
  • Second step: At this step, you need to cook the lung of a sheep or Jegar-Sefid with water, salt, oil, black pepper, and onion. Chop the onion and cook it with two cup of water and a few spoons of liquid oil. Then add salt and black paper. When it cooks, roast and make it ground.
     
  • Third step: At this step, you should grind the meat with the meat juice, later grind it again after adding saffron, black pepper, dried mint, and salt. In the end, mix everything and make a round burger, roast it in a frying pan, and decorate the Beryani with walnut, pistachio slice, and almond slice. There is some specific frying pan for preparing Beryani in Isfahan. This yummy food has served with a kind of Persian bread called Sangak and a bowl of meat juice. The exciting part is a spoon of yogurt on the meat juice that creates a delicious taste.

• Where can have a delicious taste of Beryani in Isfahan?
   

  Beryani serves in many restaurants of Isfahan province. Some of the best restaurants in Isfahan are as follows:
   

  • Beryani Azam

    If you want to eat a fatty and famous taste of Biryani, this restaurant is the best choice. The price of Beryani in all branches is 300,000 IRR.
     

    • Beryani Azam’s working hours start from 11:30 AM Until 4:00 PM

    • Address: It has four branches: one near the bazaar, one in Masjed Seyyed Street, one in Kamal-Esmaeil and one in Darvazeh Dowlat Street.

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  • Shahrzad Restaurent

    If you want to eat a healty taste of Biryani, this restaurant is the best choice. The price of Beryani is 342,000 IRR.
     
    • Shahrzad Restaurent’s working hours start from 11:00 AM Until 10:30 PM
    • Address: Abbasabad Street, Isfahan, Isfahan Province.