Birmingham Balti Chicken Curry
Birmingham Balti Chicken Curry

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Birmingham Balti Chicken Curry is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Birmingham Balti Chicken Curry is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

A balti curry is a curry cooked over a high flame with spiced fresh meat and/or vegetables, then cooked again with extra spices and served in the traditional round-bottomed balti dish. Chicken Tikka Keema Methi Balti Authentic Chicken Birmingham Balti Balti Aubergine. Base Sauce 'The Curry Guy' We also recommend checking out Richard Sayce 'Misty Ricardo' author of 'Indian Restaurant Curry at Home' which features a Balti cooked in our authentic steel pressed bowl.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have birmingham balti chicken curry using 26 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Birmingham Balti Chicken Curry:
  1. Prepare 300 g Chicken breast, diced
  2. Make ready 2 Onions
  3. Make ready 6 Garlic cloves
  4. Make ready 80 g Fresh ginger
  5. Prepare 1 Red pepper
  6. Take 1 Green pepper
  7. Make ready 400 g Canned tomatoes
  8. Take 1 Large tomato, fresh
  9. Prepare 400 ml Water
  10. Get 8 tbsp Vegetable oil
  11. Make ready 2 Eggs, hard boiled
  12. Take * [ spice bag ]
  13. Get 3 Bay leaves
  14. Prepare 1 stick Cinnamon
  15. Make ready 1 Star anise
  16. Take 2 small Cloves
  17. Take 3 Pieces mace
  18. Get 3 Green cardamom pods
  19. Take ** [ spice mix ]
  20. Get 1/2 tsp Chilli powder
  21. Make ready 1 tsp Cumin
  22. Make ready 3 tsp Turmeric
  23. Make ready 2 1/2 tsp Coriander powder
  24. Get 1 tsp Curry powder
  25. Make ready 1 tsp Garam masala
  26. Take 2 tsp Fenugreek leaves, dried and chopped

The word is found in Urdu, Hindi, Odia, and Bengali, and means "bucket". It is known to have originated in Birmingham and balti curry is usually cooked in high flame. Balti chicken with rice and naan from Edinburgh, Scotland. Balti restaurants are often known in Birmingham as 'balti houses'.

Instructions to make Birmingham Balti Chicken Curry:
  1. There's a lot of ingredients to this recipe. The key is to prepare and measure before so you can cook more simply. Make sure to mix the spices marked ** [ spice mix ] in a bowl well
  2. Place the * [ spice bag ] in some gauze netting or loose leaf tea back like I did here and tie/close firmly.
  3. Roughly chop 1 onion and the 2 peppers and cook in 200ml water. Toss in your spice bag as well as HALF of your cilantro. Move on with the recipe and come back to this in 30 minutes.
  4. Add 6 cloves garlic and a similar amount of ginger to your processor along with 1 tbsp of water and cut down to a paste. (you can use garlic and ginger paste instead)
  5. Put 3 tbsp oil in a pan on a high heat and add HALF your garlic and ginger mix. Cook until browned
  6. Remove the browned ginger and garlic from the heat and mix in HALF of your ** [spice mix] well.
  7. Return to the heat and add HALF (200g) of your canned tomatoes, Simmer gently for 10 minutes.
  8. Go back to your pot from step 3 having left it bubbling for 30 mins, remove the spice bag and then pour into your pan of tomatoes. Simmer for 5 more minutes
  9. After allowing the mixture to cool a little, pour it into your food processor and pulse a few times and set aside. This is your Balti sauce!!
  10. In a fresh pan, brown the rest of your garlic and ginger mix in some oil, add the remaining half of ** [spice mix] and after a minute, 200g of canned tomatoes.
  11. After about 3 minutes, throw in your diced up chicken pieces
  12. And cook on a medium heat until the chicken is just cooked through. About 3 minutes should do it.
  13. Next, add about 2 ladles of your pureed sauce to the chicken pan and cook for a few more minutes
  14. Lastly, add some chopped fresh tomato, cilantro (and optionally a boiled egg in each serving as I did here).
  15. Serve over fresh rice and or naan bread and enjoy!

Some balti houses have a plate of glass on the table top with menus secured beneath. Balti houses were originally clustered along and behind the main road between Sparkhill. As you can see from the publication date of this chicken Balti recipe, I wrote it quite a few years ago. I recently revisited the recipe as I often do with recipes on my blog. This chicken Balti was actually one of the first curry house/Balti house recipes I learned while doing recipe research.

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