Name: Berry pulao (Mumbai style)
Prep time: 45 min
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 500g mutton or chicken, cut into bite pieces; 300g basmati rice, soaked 30 minutes; 2 medium onions, sliced thin (for fried onion garnish); 1 medium onion, chopped fine (for the gravy); 1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste; 2 tomatoes, chopped; 100ml yoghurt; 100g zereshk (Iranian barberries) soaked in warm water 15 minutes; 50g cashews; 4 green cardamom pods; 2 cinnamon sticks; 4 cloves; 1 teaspoon cumin seeds; Pinch of saffron in 2 tablespoons warm milk; 50g ghee; Salt to taste; 2 tablespoons sugar (for sweetened berries)

Parsi mutton pulao topped with tangy Iranian zereshk berries, fried cashews and crispy onion. The Britannia and Co signature, dating to 1923.

Britannia and Co opened in Ballard Estate in 1923 and is run by the Kohinoor family. Bachan Kohinoor introduced berry pulao using imported Iranian zereshk berries layered through saffron rice with chicken or mutton. Her son Boman ran the cafe for decades until his death at 97 in 2019, and Britannia still imports the same zereshk berries from Iran for the dish.

3 editor picks for Berry pulao in Mumbai, ranked by editorial score. All Mumbai signature dishes · Berry pulao across every city.

Britannia and Co ★ 4.7

Parsi

fort · Wakefield House, 11 Sprott Road, Ballard Estate, Fort, Mumbai 400001

Britannia has poured Iranian zereshk berries over mutton pulao at this Ballard Estate room since 1923, three generations of the Kohinoor family running it.

The Bombay Canteen ★ 4.7

Modern Indian

lower-parel · Unit 1, Process House, Kamala Mills, Senapati Bapat Road, Lower Parel, Mumbai 400013

Floyd Cardoz, Sameer Seth and Yash Bhanage opened The Bombay Canteen in Kamala Mills in 2015 and reframed regional Indian cooking as a tasting-format menu.

Jimmy Boy ★ 4.4

Parsi

fort · Vikas Building, 11 Bank Street, Off Horniman Circle, Fort, Mumbai 400023

Jimmy Boy is a three-generation Parsi room off Horniman Circle, serving the wedding-table dishes daily: patra ni machhi, sali boti, dhansak and lagan nu.

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