What is the difference between a biriyani & a pulao/?

Answer 1

I am rather amazed by the (silly) responses.

Traditional Biryani always has mutton cooked with rice. Nowadays, you also find stuffs like veg and chicken Biryani. Biryani is a full meal in itself.

Pulao is fried rice with nuts, saffron, spices and is not considered a full meal.

Answer 2

A biriyani is yellow in color and a pulao is green in colour and pulao has more of nuts and other unwanted stuff.Well with coooking skills like mine,thats what u get

Answer 3

basically biryani is a delicious rice and ch based dish having mutton or chicken having saffron and nuts also, whereas pulao is a vegetarian rice base dish with peas,carrot,etc and can be eaten with some gravy or curd but biryani is a whole meal can be eaten alone.

Answer 4

Mostly biriyanis are non vegg and pulao veg.

Answer 5

Polao is for Vegetarians.
Only potato, carrots, onions,
beans, green chillys, coconuts
nuts etc are added.


Biriyani is for Non- Vegetarians only.
Biriyani has some of the above, and
either chicken or mutton are
there in it and spices are used
liberally. Some times boiled eggs
are also added as per the taste
of the regions.

Answer 6

These are 3 completely different dishes with completely different spices. Biryani is made with saffron while pulao is a vegetarian dish made cinammon and cumin. Fried rice is just that. Rice that is fried.

Answer 7

biryani is a female and pulao is a male
i think u know

Answer 8

biryani costs more than pulao!hahahahahah

Answer 9

Briyan is cooked over Dum with layers of meat gravy mixed with rice and rice alone altnerately whereas Pilau, Pilav, Pulao etc., is SOHO food where rice and meat is cooked to gether but not over dum.

Answer 10

biryani.....its the mixture of more quantities of vegetables than pulao.....!!!!!!