🍛BIR Curries
Balti Paste
A takeaway-style balti paste with that authentic BIR flavour. Uses a pre-made base sauce for speed without sacrificing taste.
20 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
Easy
Difficulty
19
Ingredients
1
Steps
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View sauce recipe →Requires G1The authentic choice — rich, deep flavour
G1 Base Sauce
2400 ml (8 portions) · 2+ hours · Involved
Key ingredients
100 ml oil · 750 gm onions (prepared weight) · 1 tspn salt · 1 tbspn turmeric · 1 tspn ground coriander · ½ tspn ground cumin · +8 more
Ingredients
Servings
- Makes approx 5 tbspn (75 ml)
- 4 tbspn oil
- ¼ tspn dry parsley
- 1 tspn ground coriander
- 1 tspn salt
- ¾ tspn turmeric
- 1½ tspn tomato purée
- ¾ tspn ground cumin
- 1¼ tspn sugar
- ¾ tspn garlic powder
- ¾ tspn cider vinegar or white wine vinegar
- ¾ tspn ground ginger
- ¼ tspn lemon juice
- ¼ tspn fennel seeds
- ¼ - ½ tspn creamed coconut
- ¼ tspn cardamom seeds
- 5 tbspn (75 ml) hot water
- ¼ tspn black mustard seeds
- 2 tspn besan (gram flour)(see note 1)
Method
- 1
Grind the fennel seeds, cardamom seeds and mustard seeds to a fine powder in a pestle and mortar.