Balti Sauce Recipe

Balti Sauce | Homemade Balti Sauce | Balti Curry Masala recipe with step by step pictures and instructions. Learn how to make Balti Sauce. Balti sauce is the base of all balti curries. Balti Curry is one of the famous curry in UK. In restaurants they prepare balti sauce and then prepare variety of veg and non veg recipes using the base sauce. As per wiki, Balti, as a food is named after the steel or iron pot in which it is cooked. 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. 

Made this for Food Bloggers Recipe Swap group Challenge where bloggers will be paired with each other. We need to cook recipes from other fellow bloggers blog. I was paired with Mina of  Givemesomespice . Her blog contains lot of interesting and innovative recipes from different cuisines. I choose couple of recipes and finally made this spicy sauce. Since everyone likes spicy curries in home, we all enjoyed this spicy and little tangy sauce. Roasting the masala powder and then adding to sauce makes it more flavorful. I made Balti Chicken using this Sauce and will try some more recipes. 

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Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.Balti is one of Britain's favourite curries, and for good reason, chicken, beef or lamb, with a delicious blend of spices, tomatoes, chillies, garlic, onions and peppers.

Or jump straight to the recipe card to get on with cooking a medium spiced homemade balti curry.  What is a balti curry?

One view is that the curry originates from the Baltistan region in Northern Pakistan, where the name Balti comes from the Urdu word meaning bucket.

Slow Cooker Chicken Balti

Balti houses started appearing in the 1970s in Birmingham, England. Beginning in a small area to the South of the city centre where three roads made up a 'Balti Triangle'.

In the 1980's they became more popular and spread to other parts of the midlands. You can now find balti restaurants and curry houses throughout the UK.

The Balti style of cooking has been adapted and localised to meet the taste of British people, with chicken or lamb being the most popular choice of meat. Plus vegetables such as onions, tomatoes, green and red peppers.

The Way I Cook: Balti Beef

To make a balti curry, you will need a pan to create the curry sauce and a wok or large frying pan to stir-fry the chicken onions and peppers.

Simply fry off the finely chopped onion in vegetable oil, sunflower oil or for the most authentic balti, ghee can be used.

Add garlic puree, chilli puree and tomato puree; we used purees for this recipe for ease. However, you can use fresh chillies or garlic and chopped finely.

East End Balti Curry Sauce

Adjust the amount of chillies used or types of chillies used in this chicken balti recipe to your desired heat level. Check if the curry powder you use contains chill powder and adjust the number of chillies used accordingly.

We use a spice mix called garam masala, available from most UK supermarkets; it is a mixture of ground coriander, cumin, cardamom and cinnamon. We also add turmeric and paprika.

You can buy other curry powder mixes if you can't find it; just bear in mind if the blend you buy contains chilli powder, use fewer chillies, and some combinations may already include turmeric, so you won’t need to add more!

Quick Chicken Balti

To finish the balti sauce add chopped tomatoes (tinned is fine), brown sugar and lime juice, add your desired amount of salt, then finally pour in the water, it may seem watery at this point, but it will thicken up nicely.

Turn the heat up to bring the sauce to a boil, then lower the heat to a simmer for at least 15 minutes.

Add enough oil in a large wok or frying pan to coat all around. Heat the oil, add the chicken, onions, green and red peppers with your choice of curry powder.

Balti Chicken Tikka Masala

Serve the balti curry with pilau rice, naan bread, onion bhajis and samosas. Or try some of our other Indian accompaniments; suggestions are below the recipe card.

This British Indian restaurant dish has been enjoyed for generations, tender pieces of chicken with onion and peppers in an aromatic balti curry sauce.

Calories: 342 kcal Carbohydrates: 12 g Protein: 38 g Fat: 16 g Saturated Fat: 2 g Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g Monounsaturated Fat: 10 g Trans Fat: 1 g Cholesterol: 108 mg Sodium: 208 mg Potassium: 877 mg Fiber: 3 g Sugar: 6 g Vitamin A: 1405 IU Vitamin C: 74 mg Calcium: 34 mg Iron: 1 mg

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We hope you enjoyed this Chicken Balti Curry Recipe, please leave us a comment below letting us know how you got on with making it, and what you like to serve yours with.

If you're looking for more Indian recipes to try, then look at our prawn masala, chicken pathia, bhuna or biryani recipes for the perfect main meal. We have a wonderful tandoori chicken tikka starter recipe.

Give our Pilau Rice, Onion Rice, Coconut Rice, Raita and Mango Chutney recipes a go! They are effortless to make. One more fantastic Indian recipe to try is a Masala Tea perfect way to start or end your day.Chicken Balti is the pride of Birmingham and a curry not of Indian but Anglo Bangladeshi heritage dating from the 1970’s that went global!

Quick And Easy Base Curry Sauce Recipe

It is a curry with a thick and boldly spiced sauce that is famed for being cooked in the bowl it is served in. I cook mine in a wok to mimic the caramelised sauce around the edges and served it in a hot karahi.

I was born in the mid-1970’s in Birmingham. If it were to be a Country its national dish would almost certainly be a Balti!

It is a curry typically served in the dish that it is cooked in, however in many places the “balti dish” has become more of a presentation piece rather than a cooking implement.

Chicken And Vegetable Balti Recipe

Yes, absolutely, the Brummie balti is typically served in the bowl that it is cooked in. I do not find that a particularly efficient way of cooking for two, yet alone more.

Make the balti sauce as per my instructions then blend it. Then stir fry the ingredients for your curry over a very high heat in the balti bowl and then add the sauce and cook until it is done.

Yes, you can change it up very easily, add chicken tikka, lamb tikka, even paneer tikka and you have a tikka balti.

Authentic Chicken Balti Recipe

The sauce will store for 3-4 days in the fridge and will freeze for up to 3 months. The balti it self is best cooked fresh so that you get all of the caramelised bits of the sauce.

It would verge on being a crime not to serve a chicken balti with a tandoori style naan bread. Although I do have friends that occasionally request them with chapati or roti. Well, when I say friends 😉

Likewise, it is equally proper to start off a trip to a curry house with poppadoms, a take on kachumber salad and some mint raita.

Balti Sauce 375gm

Rice is always a nice option with a curry, although not really required with this meaty curry. A nice jeera rice works particularly well, although a pilau rice is just as good.

I tend not to recommend specifically branded pieces of kit in the kitchen, I’m a cook, not an equipment reviewer. If you have any questions please shout up in the comments below.

This chicken balti recipe is a chicken curry recipe that screams of its home town, Birmingham in the UK and it is a recipe that gives me a true taste of home!

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