The Pairing Library
Chicken biryani
Whole spices, saffron and sweet fried onion fill the rice with scent, so the best wines bring perfume or gentle spice of their own. Any chilli is better served by moderate alcohol and little tannin, as alcohol and grip both stoke the heat and bury the saffron.
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