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Title: Shababs Balti chicken
Post by: Kashmiri Bob on November 27, 2024, 09:12 PM
Misty's base and recipe, with one or two refinements.  And pre-cooked chicken strip.

(https://i.ibb.co/XZwRcGX/DSC-0359-1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/7J9ms0v)

Rob
Title: Re: Shababs Balti chicken
Post by: Kashmiri Bob on November 29, 2024, 01:13 PM
A few more photos from this session.

New skewer holders with cobbled together dispo BBQ setup

(https://i.ibb.co/fQ227vz/DSC-0465.jpg) (https://ibb.co/b7PPnJM)

(https://i.ibb.co/g4GggPK/DSC-0470.jpg) (https://ibb.co/3RwhhMZ)

Part of the neighbour's Japanese garden

(https://i.ibb.co/s1gYqLD/DSC-0471.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Lg0714q)

(https://i.ibb.co/584DYPs/DSC-0475.jpg) (https://ibb.co/NjCh1MW)

Leftover Balti chicken with Asda's egg fried rice

(https://i.ibb.co/gPLnxLr/DSC-0363-1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/TbxCsxw)

Balti chicken (spinach)

(https://i.ibb.co/z8BH225/DSC-0018-1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/KNfzssG)

With Daawat extra long basmati

(https://i.ibb.co/SwYgV38/DSC-0028-1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/d4Cvk5q)

Rob










Title: Re: Shababs Balti chicken
Post by: Onions on November 29, 2024, 03:13 PM
Fantastic photos Rob, mouthwatering. Except the Japanese garden perhaps  :) 

Was that last one the balti/spinach chicken too? - the saucet looks a bit darker.
Title: Re: Shababs Balti chicken
Post by: Kashmiri Bob on November 30, 2024, 01:07 PM
Was that last one the balti/spinach chicken too? - the sauce looks a bit darker.

Yes, same one.  Out of the fridge.  Reheated (micro) and tipped off the excess oil/balti juice.  Very nice. Yum, yum! :)

Next time I make Misty's will post the refinements.  Realised that the Shabab's balti is essentially a methi chicken/ghost, etc.  BIR style, Kasoori methi and mustard.  Lots of methi and lots of mustard though. Consequently, the base needs to be pretty sweet. No surprises on how to achieve this.  Find it fairly easy to make with darker (more expensive) mustard oil, but less so with the lighter varieties (e.g KTC), so have been finalising a combination of light oil/mustard powder (paste).  There should also be faint notes of mint leaf in the finished dish.

Rob
Title: Re: Shababs Balti chicken
Post by: Secret Santa on November 30, 2024, 04:48 PM
Lots of methi and lots of mustard though.

Never had a bought curry with mustard in it or mustard oil. Is that a balti thing?
Title: Re: Shababs Balti chicken
Post by: Peripatetic Phil on December 01, 2024, 11:10 AM
Never had a bought curry with mustard in it or mustard oil.
Are you sure, Santa ?  Mustard oil is a standard ingredient in (e.g.,) Bassar curry masala, so if ever you have eaten a Pakistani curry (as opposed to, say, a Bangladeshi one), you would almost certainly have consumed mustard oil.
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** Phil.
Title: Re: Shababs Balti chicken
Post by: Secret Santa on December 01, 2024, 08:49 PM
Never had a bought curry with mustard in it or mustard oil.
Are you sure, Santa ?  Mustard oil is a standard ingredient in (e.g.,) Bassar curry masala, so if ever you have eaten a Pakistani curry (as opposed to, say, a Bangladeshi one), you would almost certainly have consumed mustard oil.
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** Phil.

Ah yes. I do indeed make a vindaloo with bassar masala and insist on the "damp" kind that clearly has plenty of mustard oil in it. But really I don't think I've knowingly had a bought curry with it in. Unless it's so little that it's not that evident.
Title: Re: Shababs Balti chicken
Post by: Kashmiri Bob on December 07, 2024, 01:38 PM
Lots of methi and lots of mustard though.

Never had a bought curry with mustard in it or mustard oil. Is that a balti thing?

I think It's more commonly used than previously thought.  Certainly for Pakistani and Bengali dishes.  Trad and some BIR.  Chef Moike used to put Coleman's in his Methi gosht and shashlik dishes  The acrid, somewhat unpleasant (imo) odour of the oil disappears when cooked.  I think I got up to 1 1/2 cs dark in a single balti.  Not really much chance of knowing it had been used, unless perhaps you knew it had.  Have read that some chefs heat the oil at the start of cooking, until it starts to smoke; this apparently removes the pungency.

Rob