Steps to Prepare Quick Birmingham Balti Chicken Curry

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, birmingham balti chicken curry. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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

The ingredients needed to make Birmingham Balti Chicken Curry:

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

Instructions 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!

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