Chicken Balti

This authentic chicken balti dish  is a wonderful addition to your regular meal plans for family dinners. It's a good fragrant dish packed with flavour  that is equally good made with chicken or vegetables.

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp cooking oil
• 1 medium onion, finely chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• ½ inch piece of garlic, grated and finely chopped
• 2 fresh green chillies
• ½ large green or red pepper roughly chopped
• 1 tomato, diced
• 2-4 tbsp tomato puree
• 2 tbsp tandori masala
• 2 tsp Madras curry powder
• 300g chicken, cut into 1 inch chunks
• 1 tbsp cider vinegar
• 2 tbsp chopped coriander
• juice of ½ lime
• salt to taste

Method:

Heat the oil in a large frying pan.

Todd in the chopped onion and allow to fry for about 5 minutes or until the onion is beginning to turn soft and translucent.

Add the garlic and ginger an stir to combine. About 30 seconds should do. You just want to cook off the rawness.

Spoon in the tandori masala and curry powder.

Now add the green chillies, red or green peppers, chopped tomatoes and tomato puree. Give this all a good stir to combine.

Add in the chicken pieces and brown this in the onion mixture. Stir continuously to brown the chicken evenly.

Now add about  ½ cup water. You can add more to assist in cooking the chicken but Baltis are dry curries so try not to add too much.

Simmer for about 8 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through.

Add the cider vinegar and simmer for another minute.

Just before serving, sprinkle the coriander into the curry and season with salt and pepper to taste and add the lime juice.