Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chicken balti. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chicken Balti is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Chicken Balti is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Chicken Balti is one of the most popular curries in British Indian Restaurants. It's a deliciously rich curry with a tomato-based sauce full of flavour from garlic, coriander and spices. This chicken Balti curry recipe has taken me months to perfect.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook chicken balti using 22 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Balti:
- Get 220 grams boneless skinless chicken thighs diced
- Prepare 1 tbsp lime juice
- Prepare 1/2 tsp hot smoked paprika
- Prepare 1 tbsp sunflower oil
- Get stick Cinnamon
- Make ready 2 cardamom pods
- Make ready 1/2 green chilli
- Make ready Sprinkling of cumin seeds
- Prepare 1/2 onion diced
- Make ready 1 inch of, coarsely grated ginger
- Get 1 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- Get 1/4 tsp turmeric
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- Take 1/2 tsp ground coriander
- Get 1/2 tsp garam masala
- Take 150 ml passata
- Make ready 1/2 red pepper sliced
- Prepare 1 medium tomato chopped
- Take Large handful baby spinach
- Take handful fresh coriander, chopped
- Take to taste Salt and pepper
- Get 75 ml water
The Balti Paste is simply fried for a bit then add some liquid (water and tomato passata) and then the chicken and some peppers. Leave to boil and at the end add some garam masala and dried fenugreek leaves. Ultimate Chicken Balti Recipe Heat the ghee or oil in a large frying pan or balti pan over high heat. Add the garlic and ginger and stir to combine.
Steps to make Chicken Balti:
- Put the chicken in a medium bowl. Mix in the lime juice, paprika, chilli powder and a grinding of black pepper, set aside to marinate whilst we prepare the veggies.
- Heat 1 tbsp of the oil in a non-stick pan. Place in the cinnamon stick, cardamom pods, chilli and cumin seeds, and stir to release the flavour. Add in the onion, garlic and ginger and fry over a medium-high heat for 3-4 mins until the onion starts to turn brown.
- Add the remaining oil, then drop in the chicken and stir-fry for 2-3. Then pour in the turmeric, cumin, ground coriander and garam masala into the pan, turn down the heat so it slowly simmers for a few mins, then add the passata the water, then add the slices of pepper.
- Keep the heat low so it slowly simmers down which should be 15 – 20 minutes. Leave it longer if you like it just gets better
- Once the chicken is tender add the chopped tomato, simmer for 2-3 mins, then add the spinach and turn it over in the pan to just wilt. If you want to thin down the sauce, splash in a little more water.Enjoy
- Enjoy
Chicken balti cooked in an authentic stainless steel balti bowl. One of the key ingredients in a true chicken Balti is the Balti bowl itself. You can cook this chicken balti in any pan and it will still be delicious. The truth is that the Balti actually refers to the dish that the curry is cooked in rather than the curry itself. The dish that it's cooked in is an Indian cast iron, round-bottomed wok with two handles calle a karahi.
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