Nadiya Hussain prawn saffron biryani recipe

Nadiya Hussain served up a tasty prawn saffron biryani on Nadiya’s Family Favourites.

The ingredients are: 500g basmati rice, large pinch saffron, 1 small cinnamon stick and 2 tsp salt.

For the sauce: 80g unsalted butter, 5 garlic cloves, finely chopped, 2 medium onions, finely chopped, 2 tsp salt, ½ lemon, 2 large red chillies, quartered, ½ tsp ground turmeric, 1 tsp Indian five-spice (panch phoran), a large handful fresh parsley, roughly chopped, 350g raw king prawns, peeled and 5 tbsp olive oil.


See Nadiya’s recipes in her book titled: Nadiya’s Family Favourites: Easy, beautiful and show-stopping recipes for every day from Nadiya’s upcoming BBC TV series, available from Amazon now.

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  1. Just made this recipe tonight for dinner. Never felt the need to post a review before, but this is Beautiful!! Light, full of aromatic, fresh flavours. Didn’t even feel tempted to alter the recipe and this is a first for me. Love making a Lamb version but this is perfect for Summer. Will make this again and again. Made it with the frozen raw prawns from Aldi, delicious!!

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