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2 working recipes

Recipes & Technique

4 min

Big Mac Sauce Recipe

A professional-kitchen Big Mac sauce recipe made with Dijon mustard, La Costeña chipotle paste, smoked paprika, shallots and cornichons. Makes about 1.3 litres.

Big Mac sauce recipe
Burger sauce
Homemade Big Mac sauce
Oviinbyrd

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Recipes & Technique

18 min

Hyderabadi Dawat-Style Chicken Dum Biryani

Javed Ustad’s original one-handi catering formula: 20 kg chicken, 18 kg rice, a raw-rice centre, three staged extractions and nearly two hours of managed dum.

Hyderabadi biryani
Javed Ustad
Dum cooking
Catering

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