Birmingham Balti Chicken Curry
Birmingham Balti Chicken Curry

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, birmingham balti chicken curry. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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. This chicken balti recipe will get you restaurant quality results. I first learned to make chicken Balti at a restaurant called Shababs in Birmingham's Balti Triangle.

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

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

This Balti recipe comes from chef Zaf at Shababs in the Balti Triangle in Birmingham so its as real as a Balti recipe can get. It is spicy, incredibly aromatic, comforting, everything that Indian food normally is. Indian food must be the best in the world. Our bowls have been designed for professional Balti kitchens but are equally at home on a gas hob, electric stove top, induction, aga or the BBQ.

Steps 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!

The Birmingham steel pressed Balti bowls come stylishly presented in a box with an authentic Balti recipe and care card. The perfect gift for any curry lover. Great recipe for Birmingham Balti Chicken Curry. The first restaurant food I go for whenever I'm back in England is a classic Balti Chicken Curry. Originating from Bangladesh, Balti is a firm favourite in the UK, and particularly Birmingham.

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