Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, chicken balti. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chicken Balti is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Chicken Balti is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
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. Though there are restaurants now serving the famous dish across the whole of the UK, you can make at it home and at a fraction of the cost. It's a deliciously rich curry with a tomato-based sauce full of flavour from garlic, coriander and spices.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have chicken balti using 22 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Balti:
- Prepare boneless skinless chicken thighs diced
- Take lime juice
- Make ready hot smoked paprika
- Take sunflower oil
- Prepare Cinnamon
- Get cardamom pods
- Prepare green chilli
- Take Sprinkling of cumin seeds
- Make ready onion diced
- Get of, coarsely grated ginger
- Prepare garlic cloves, finely chopped
- Make ready turmeric
- Make ready ground cumin
- Make ready ground coriander
- Prepare garam masala
- Get passata
- Take red pepper sliced
- Prepare medium tomato chopped
- Take Large handful baby spinach
- Get fresh coriander, chopped
- Make ready Salt and pepper
- Get water
Add the peppers and stir fry until edges slightly browned. Remove the peppers from the wok and set aside. Put a little more oil into the wok, heat through, then add some of the chicken pieces and stir fry until they are sealed and have turned white. Chicken balti cooked in an authentic stainless steel balti bowl.
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
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. The curry is characteristically a meat (or veg) dish with a thick, spicy tomato-based sauce.
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