Biryani is a one-pot rice dish made from premium basmati rice. Both vegetarian and non-vegetarian form of Biryani can be prepared to serve as per people’s eating habit. The non-vegetarian biryani contains chicken/mutton/egg and the vegetarian biryani contains vegetables of choice; along with basmati rice and indian spices to give it the real flavor.

Biryani is a complete dish in itself and it is quite juicy. In some places, it is served with curd salan or mirchi salan. Various flavor and preparation variations for biryani are possible and these variations are commonly available in different restaurants. Few cities in India like Hyderabad and Lucknow are known for their tasty specialty biryani named after these cities (eg Hyderabadi Biryani and Lucknowi Biryani), and this specialty dish is available in almost all restaurants in both cities. . Biryani is not only a common and favorite dish of the people residing in these cities, but even the visitors of these cities make sure to enjoy this speciality, whenever they are in the city.

Biryani is not so easily available in restaurants in most other cities or towns in India. At the same time, making biryani at home is challenging due to the long and time-consuming method of making biryani, and it also takes experience to make delicious biryani at home. Therefore, it is a difficulty for Indians residing in other cities/towns to relish this dish.

Various ready-to-eat or ready-to-eat spice mixes (biryani masalas) have been introduced to the market to help customers prepare biryani at home. Both preparations have their advantages and disadvantages:

– Ready-to-eat foods are very practical preparations, but they are generally perceived as stagnant foods and even their taste is far from the original/real taste of food.

– Ready Biryani masala is definitely a solution to lack of cooking experience and can help to ensure the taste of biryani preparation at home, but it does not provide a quick and easy preparation method. One also needs many other ingredients to add in biryani while using ready biryani masala

Out of the above two options available ready made biryani masala is most preferred in India to prepare tasty and fresh biryani at home. The third option for easy preparation of tasty biryani at home which has recently been introduced in the market is ready to cook biryani preparations. These ready-to-cook food products have a one-step instant preparation method and contain fresh dehydrated ingredients packaged as premixes. The simple method of preparing and cooking ready-to-cook food on time gives the consumer the satisfaction of preparing a fresh dish instantly.

One of the ready-to-cook biryani preparations available in the market is Actchawa Daal Biryani, which is a delicious and nutritious variation of vegetarian biryani (containing raw basmati rice, raw dehydrated vegetables, and Indian spices) and daal powder. The product has a very simple one-step preparation method and contains no added colors or preservatives. One just has to add water and boil it for 12 minutes to prepare the rich and tasty daal biryani. The preparation overcomes all the challenges like stale biryani preparation, time consuming preparation method or too much work/arrangement required to prepare biryani at home.