Something for the Weekend - Chicken Balti Curry

I am in Birmingham for the Taste Birmingham Food Festival, celebrating the best of food in and around the city. Though Birmingham has a wealth of great food and restaurants, one of its most famous dishes is the Balti. The Balti arrived in Birmingham in the 1970's courtesy of the Pakistani and Kashmiri communities. The majority of the city's balti houses are located in the Sparbrook, Balsall Heath and Moseley areas of South-East Birmingham known as the Balti Triangle.

It is so easy to find Balti throughout the whole of the UK - not just Birmingham - in restaurants, take-aways and in the chiller section of the supermarket but why not make it yourself at home? It is actually easy to do and will cost you a fraction of the ready made variety. Traditionally it should be served in a balti dish, a flat-bottomed metal dish with piping hot naan bread on the side. Birmingham's balti houses are renowned for their giant naan breads, sometimes the size of the table tops!

• Chicken Balti Recipe
• Balti Triangle Restaurants - for those who don't want to cook.
• How Not to Get Lost in the Balti Triangle
• Restaurant Review - Al Frash, Birmingham

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