Gullu Dada’s Zafarani Biryani: A new taste for Hyderabad
By Umera Riyaz| Edited by Sruthi Vibhavari | Published: 18th January 2021 9:35 pm IST
Hyderabad is, unarguably, the best place for biryani. The debate only rises when asked which restaurant serves the best biryani. The rice-based aromatic dish had a long journey from Persia, to Mughal bawarchi khana to various parts of the Indian subcontinent. But, Hyderabad is the land that embraced it as its own aeons ago.
Hyderabad, over the years, also showed versatility in the ‘types’ of biryani–from vegetable variant we unhesitantly term ‘pulao’, to several non-vegetarian versions– each of it is made in a different method, which gives it a characteristic taste. ‘Gullu Dada’s Biryani’, the biryani chain named after a popular Hyderabadi character played by Adnan Sajid Khan, brought an exciting touch of ‘Zafran’ (saffron) to the city’s favourite dish.