Malabar Biriyani is a rice-based dish blended with spices and chicken. As it is the only biriyani recipe in Kerala cuisine, it may also be called Kerala biriyani.
The main difference between Malabar biriyani and others is that it uses only Khaima/Jeerakasala rice—a short-grain, thin rice which is also called biriyani rice in Kerala. The dish does not use basmati rice.
Biryani is an exotic dish of Mughal origin, but this variant is an indigenous recipe of Malabar. It is a symbol of the cultural amalgamation of Mughal and Malabari cuisines. The Mughals brought the cuisine of biryani from Samarkand, and later variations of biriyani developed in different parts of India. Malabar biriyani may have come to the region because of the influence of the Muslim rulers of Mysore and Arkot.
Malabar biriyani is a cultural embodiment and is reminiscent of foreign influences in Malabar, it is a reminder of the Mughal-Arab cultural influence in North Kerala due to the trade that lasted for many centuries before the 1900s and the emigration to the Middle East of locals from the 1970s onwards.Thalassery sea port was an export trade centre for spices where a convergence of European, Arab and Malabar cultures occurred.Malabar biriyani is synonymous to Thalassery biriyani or Kozhikode biriyani.
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