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Handi with seal Bukhara / Dum Pukht cuisine in India is over 200 years old. Dum Phukt means to breathe and to cook. The cuisine owes its excellence to the fact that the food , sealed in a dish , is cooked in its own juices and retain all its natural aromas and flavors. This method is typical of the cooking of Lucknow and is used for rice dishes such as biryanis and pulaos.Dum means to steam or mature a dish . In the olden days , the utensil was sealed with dough to capture the moisture within th (...)