Many people in Uganda have heard of Balti Cooking. I had neither heard of it until 1977 during a visit to London. Balti cooking was originally introduced to the West thanks to the Pakistan resident ...

I first learnt of Balti cooking during my stay in London, UK between 1979 and 1983. Admittedly, at that time, it was a relatively new cuisine, which had been introduced to the UK during the 1970s by ...

Balti is a spicy dish and 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". The word developed from the Portuguese ...

The metal Balti dish retains all the food's flavours and keeps the curry sizzling The "Birmingham Balti" could soon have its name protected by an EU scheme, if a private bid is successful. But what ...

A balti is a sort of curry served in a 'balti bowl', which is a thin, pressed-steel wok. This type of curry is cooked fast over high heat in the stir-fry style, using vegetable oil rather than ghee.

Birmimgham is home to dozens of top curry houses - but did you know not all of them cook 'authentic' baltis? An authentic balti has to be fast cooked over a high flame, using vegetable oil and no ghee ...

Andy Munro is a little mad at Madhur. And as he leads us through his beloved Balti Triangle it becomes apparent why. Birmingham native Andy is passionate about the Balti – so much so that he runs a ...

Cooking Balti at Birmingham’s Stoney Lane is not even half the fun as dishing out the Bombay Koyla Karahi on the streets of Karachi’s Hussainabad Cooking Balti at Birmingham’s Stoney Lane is not even ...

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