Ambur is small town in Tamil Nadu, located about half-way between Chennai and Bengaluru on NH 48. Primarily it is a manufacturing center. It used to be known for its high quality leather goods. The Biryani from Ambur has been a delight for people in the town and around. Owing to its location on a busy National Highway, the Ambur Biryani is also immensely popular in Bengaluru as well as Chennai and other places along the route.
If you go back to Mughal times, you could trace down the origin of the Ambur Biryani to that era. The Nawabs of Arcot who ruled the Carnatic region of South India, primarily in the 18th century had their base in Arcot (a place near Ambur), and it was in the kitchens of these Nawabs in Arcot that the Ambur Biryani originated.
Unfair as it may seem, the biryani, after all, was originally…
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