Birmingham Balti Chicken Curry
Birmingham Balti Chicken Curry

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, birmingham balti chicken curry. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

I like using an authentic Birmingham Balti Bowl to cook this curry. The thin pressed steel transfers a lot of heat while cooking, and imparts a distinctive and delicious. This Chicken balti curry recipe is from Birmingham City Council and the Balti Triangle in Birmingham.

Birmingham Balti Chicken Curry is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Birmingham Balti Chicken Curry is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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

I remember very well walking into the restaurant kitchen in Birmingham's Balti triangle to see how it was done and being a bit disappointed. An amazing chicken balti curry, tender chicken pieces in a fragrant sauce, this one of the most popular curries in Britain. Chicken Balti is a flavorful creamy one-pot curry, which is associated with British curry culture. Richly spiced and enhanced with quality ingredients, this quickly turns out to be the best homemade chicken balti!

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!

This Chicken Balti is gluten-free if used with gluten-free spices (see what the package. Mine, a chicken and spinach balti, was large chunks of spicy chicken adorned with nothing but soft spinach and some nearly melted onions. A balti or bāltī gosht (Urdu: بالٹی گوشت‎, Hindi: बाल्टी गोश्त) is a type of lamb meat or goat meat curry served in a thin, pressed-steel wok called a "balti bowl". The name may have come from the metal dish in which the curry is cooked, rather than from any specific ingredient or cooking technique. A chicken tikka masala served in a classic Balti-style dish.

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