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  Balti (food) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Balti is the name for a style of food probably first devised and served in Birmingham, England around the late 1970s, probably 1977.
Normally the balti is served with large unleavened naan bread; pieces of which are torn off by hand and used to scoop up the hot curry sauce from the pot.
Balti houses originally clustered along and behind the main road between Sparkhill and Moseley, to the south of Birmingham city centre.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balti_(food)   (595 words)

  
 Balti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Balti dynasty - a branch of the ancient Visigoths
Balti language - a language spoken in Baltistan in Kashmir
Balti - a style of food devised in Birmingham in England
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balti   (121 words)

  
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 Encyclopedia: Balti (food)
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Balti-(food)   (1392 words)

  
 Butlers Balti House for great balti, curry, including vegetarian Indian food. Meals for all tastes.
Balti is a style of cooking that developed in Birmingham twenty or thirty years ago.
There are a number of theories on the origin of the term Balti, some say Balti describes the cooking pot and others say it refers to a style of cooking that evolved in Baltistan, somewhere on the North West frontier.
In a ‘traditional’ balti restaurant, the dish is served in a large balti pot and eaten with Indian breads, such as Nans, Chappatis and Parathas.
www.brooknet.uklinux.net /sites/butlersbalti442887/indianfood.php   (1792 words)

  
 Balti Pot Directory of Indian Restaurants in the UK
The name 'Balti' actually refers to the cast iron cooking pot (bucket!) and serving dish this type of curry is cooked and served in.
Balti is usually served with naan bread, and this is used to eat the curry rather than spoons and forks.
Balti in Europe began in the Sparkhill and Sparkbrook areas of the city of Birmingham, England in the early 1990's.
www.baltipot.co.uk   (285 words)

  
 London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Named for a remote region of Pakistan (Baltistan), and a cooking utensil, the Balti curry is a meal prepared in a single, round, wok-like cast iron dish.
The beauty of a Balti meal is a combination of its simplicity and the fact it is usually quite inexpensive.
Food is British again, but not as formal as Bibendum.
www.sallys-place.com /food/dining_directory/europe/london.htm   (1430 words)

  
 Balti Naz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The food is always excellent (very tasty rather than just the chilli you can taste in some places) and the friendly genuine service by the staff is always fantastic.
The Balti Naz is the Beatles and the Stones of Indian cuisine.
The food was very nice and in addition my sisters and I got a very warm, welcoming and friendly approach from the waiters.
www.lammas.com /food/BaltiNaz.html   (789 words)

  
 The Great British Kitchen
Other foods were made with pig meat and offal, such as chicklings (chitterlings), polonies and other sausages, haslet, brawn, tripe and pig's trotters (pig's feet).
Balti cooking originated centuries ago in the Himalayan mountain region of Pakistani Kashmir, in the province known as Baltistan.
Balti food is freshly prepared and healthy, because the rapid stir-fry process retains the goodness of the food.
www.greatbritishkitchen.co.uk /rc_northants.htm   (1188 words)

  
 Balti King - Balti King Sheffield
Balti is an aromatically spiced Indian dish, cooked in a cast iron wok to enhance its exotic flavours.
Balti King’s head chef Jalal Din has been in the trade for over 30 years and is considered to be one of the best balti chefs in the industry.
Balti King is proud of their approach to team-work and in a similar vein sponsors many of the local rugby, hockey and football clubs, the photographs of which adorn the walls of the restaurant together with the numerous celebrities who have dined there.
www.webexpressguide.com /sheffield/article.php?id=540   (666 words)

  
 Balti (food) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
1) The balti (meaning, literally, "bucket" in (A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947) India) refers to the steel or iron pot.
Balti houses originally clustered along & behind the main road between (Click link for more info and facts about Sparkhill) Sparkhill and (Click link for more info and facts about Moseley) Moseley, to the south of Birmingham city centre.
The expanded curry market in Britain is now said to be worth some £4 billion annually; but some still claim that it is impossible get a 'proper' Balti outside the urban (A dialect of Middle English) West Midlands.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/balti_(food).htm   (421 words)

  
 Balti cuisine anyone?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
And while balti restaurants are competing in number with curry houses abroad, in India, the trend simply hasn’t caught on.
‘Balti’ translates literally as cooking bucket, and the balti dish, or kadhai, is a shallow wok in which the dish is both cooked and served.
The cooking style is like a stir-fry, and the food is assembled straight in the pot, thereby retaining the freshness of the ingredients and the heat.
web.mid-day.com /metro/bandra/2005/may/109384.htm   (508 words)

  
 CPFC BBS - Balti Bars
As a lover of indian food, (ain't we all) I'm very curious about the new style of restaurant that visitors from the UK rave about, and that is the "balti bar''.
Balti houses differ from your average curry house in that your food is usually served to you at the table in a sizzling cast iron wok thing called a karahi or balti.
Balti houses are usually BYOB places so I don't know how your idea for a Balti Bar would fit in.
forums.cpfc.org /showthread.php?threadid=37409   (753 words)

  
 Ealing Balti House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The staff were lovely, the food was always FAB, and the free wine was a great treat.
I have been visiting the Balti House for many, many years and like some of your other visitors I have yet to find any other Indian Restaurant which comes up to this high standard.
The food is always excellent, no matter what you order, and the staff will modify any dish to your tastes.
www.lammas.com /food/EalingBaltiHouse.html   (597 words)

  
 Welcome to K2 Balti House
Local architects and builders were commissioned to create a stylish interior in the Mogul style, the pub was closed and opened six months later as the restaurant you see today.
Also the K2 Mountain is situated in the region of Kashmir, Pakistan known as Baltistan where Balti cooking originates from.
All his chefs are trained in the origional method of cooking still used in continental countries today, all food is cooked fresh using the best herbs, spices, vegetables and most succulent cuts of meat.
www.k2baltihouse.co.uk /aboutus.htm   (368 words)

  
 Waitrose.com - Edinburgh: The King's Balti - Waitrose Food Illustrated
It is one of the raisons d'être of Indian restaurants - a combination of potato, batter and hot fat that seems custom-designed for the Scottish palate.
So contrary David orders something called Kashmiri bhaja, which comes in a little baby balti pan accompanied by a chapati.
I could eat the King's Balti's sabzi bhar once a week and not tire of it.
www.waitrose.com /food_drink/wfi/eatingout/scotland/9902022a.asp   (458 words)

  
 Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society
Balti food is cooked in a utensil called a Karahi and is quite similar traditional Multani Karahi cuisine.
Meanwhile back in India, British tourists are desperately looking for Balti restaurants and to keep up with the demand Indian restaurants are starting to include Balti dishes in their menu.
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 Basic Balti Sauce Recipe from the Recipes To Go Collection
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www.recipes-to-go.com /indian/Basic-Balti-Sauce.html   (402 words)

  
 but she’s a girl… » Balti
Some claim that the word ‘balti’ comes from the Urdu word for ‘bucket’, and refers to the shape of the iron wok-like pan that the dish is cooked and served in.
There’s even a balti triangle, in which roughly every second establishment is a balti restaurant.
“balti”, in Bengali, is a bucket or pail.
www.rousette.org.uk /blog/archives/2004/11/24/balti   (1072 words)

  
 Seattle Weekly: Food: Dr. Food: Ask Dr. Food   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In Urdu and Hindi "balti" means "bucket," but balti cuisine originated in Birmingham, England, home to a large Pakistani diaspora since the 1950s.
Balti dishes are stir-fried in the balti or karhai, then served right out of it.
Real Baltis, of Mongol and Caucasian stock, live on a simple diet rich in wheat and vegetables and do not cook in baltis or karhais.
www.seattleweekly.com /features/0329/food-drfood.php   (372 words)

  
 The Balti Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The balti evolved into a half-hemispherical pot as likely to be made of steel as iron, and usually called the karahi or karai.
A Balti is usually both cooked in the karahi, and served at the table in it.
Typically served with Balti is naan bread, a thinnish leavened bread (somewhat like pita bread) torn up and used as an eating implement, to scoop up the Balti and get at the sauce.
www.cathedral.org /wrs/agm2004/balti.htm   (225 words)

  
 THE BALTI PAGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Balti part of their operation is in a separate restaurant underneath the main room: it's less formal than the upstairs, and the food is extremely good.
There was three of us at this meal and we had three courses each, with a bottle of wine, naan bread and pilau rice and it came to about 35 pounds.
There are also two new Balti houses in Dublin, one in Rathfarnham and one in Blackrock: we'll have more information on these shortly.
www.owlsprings.com /the_balti_page/brest_i.htm   (399 words)

  
 top10x
Food very good, would recommend them, kitchens are very clean I have seen them for myself.
Meat Balti's are made using mutton which gives a much richer flavour and is always cooked to a melt in the mouth consistency.
The one reservation I have is that the food may be too hot for the novice balti eater.
homepages.tesco.net /~john.davies/balti/top10.html   (2828 words)

  
 Quest For Fire Archive
The major reason that these foods were purchased in the first place is that they were destined for use in meals that just never got cooked.
The Balti food, he notes, is only mildly hot and in some cases has no chile heat.
Occasionally, food service is halted because of rioting, and soldiers have been seen sleeping under the shelter of some of these makeshift eateries.
www.fiery-foods.com /dave/quest_archive.html   (7861 words)

  
 balti indian cooking - introduction
Balti is a type of Kashmiri curry whose origins go back centuries in
Balti or Pathan tribesman as an alien from outer space.
was not served and the Balti House was not licensed.
recipes.chef2chef.net /recipe-archive/25/140741.shtml   (793 words)

  
 Restaurant Review: Balti Massala Indian Restaurant, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire
Balti Massala is a small restaurant in a precinct of shops.
There is no menu on display outside of the restaurant so unless you have eaten there before or seen a copy of the takeaway menu there is no knowing what you have let yourself in for.
However overall the standard of food, generosity of portions and quality of the ingredients used is very good.
www.eatanddrink.co.uk /restaurants/BaltiMassala.asp   (390 words)

  
 Bewdley - The Rajah of Bewdley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
"Food is excellent and the people extremely friendly, offering a high standard of customer service"
We have been established in Bewdley since 1981 and have been providing a high standard of service and quality authentic Indian Cuisine.
We are speciaists in tandoori, curry and balti dishes.
www.bewdley.actinet.net /rajah   (89 words)

  
 Home Office Chef Recipe #1 (Balti Chicken)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Balti itself means bucket, and refers to the cooking pot, often called a karahi.
You could also chop some tomatoes and cucumber in a bowl, add yogurt, a squeeze of lemon or lime juice and a dash of salt.
It's generally accepted the Balti style originated in the mountains of northern Pakistan, and is heavily influenced by its neighbors - India, China, Afghanistan and Iran.
www.ibiztips.com /home05FEB01.htm   (1007 words)

  
 Britsh food debate.
Visitors to Britain who hate Brit food mustve eaten in the wrong places because the food and the quality vary so much in cafes and restaurants but you can't beat good home cooked British food.
I've also heard that lots of people say that British food is not good, but I couldn't agree with it when I did homestay in England I didn't think British food was bad.
I think British food is said not good because the countries around England is so famous for their own food such as France and Italy.
www.lingolex.com /cc/food.htm   (2895 words)

  
 Asian Food Takeaway Dishes At The Great Wall, St Helens.
There is Asian food of Tikka Massala, Balti Dishes and Byriani Dishes, with a variety of extras suitable for most occasions.
You can order Asian food and extras like Korma dishes, or other extras such as Sausage, Savoury Cake, Curry Sauce, Barbecue Sauce and Peas by telephone or the Asian food will be prepared for you while you wait.
Some changes in the Asian food Dishes may be made from time to time, but the Asian Food quality will not be affected.
beifan.com /070takeawaymenu/asiandishes01.html   (281 words)

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