Pataks biryani paste 283gcompletely unlike your usual saucy curries a biryani is a dry rice dish with added spices and meat or veggies the paella of indian food if you will a biryani is traditionally cooked in an oven but you can use this biryani paste to create a restaurant quality biryani on the stove or give our new oven bake easy biryani sauces a go