BIR Style Curries Archives

Balti Chicken (Shababs)

Shababs Balti Chicken Recipe This is the Chicken Balti recipe as demonstrated to me by Zaf Hussain at Shababs restaurant in the Birmingham Balti Triangle. Please read this article about cooking Balti before attempting the dish. There’s something refreshingly unique...

Mustard Mango Murgh Recipe

by Richard Sayce

Mustard Mango Curry Recipe Once in a while a happy accident occurs. Meet the new member of the Misty Ricardo recipe collection, which was conceived on the back of an envelope and came into the world singing and dancing. The name is quite self-explanatory – put simply,...

Samber Recipe

by Richard Sayce

Samber Curry Recipe This dish is often overlooked on BIR menus, but deserves rightful recognition. The samber curry is loaded with lentils, augmented by lemon juice, and amplified with chilli powder. Often it’s a simple affair in restaurants and takeaways being...

Kalimirch (Black Pepper) Curry Recipe

by Richard Sayce

Kalimirch Black Pepper Curry Black pepper (Hindi: kali mirch) ceases to be the understudy and comes forward to play the lead role in this pungent medium strength curry featuring a creamy sauce balanced with lemon juice and chef’s ‘special herbs and spices’. This curry...

Phaal Curry Recipe

by Richard Sayce

Phaal Curry Recipe The famous and usually excruciatingly hot phaal is a curry to be handled with extreme caution. There are some hotter curries out there (as always), but my recipe holds back no punches, so if you like the idea of being proverbially slapped in the...

Adrak (Ginger) Curry Recipe

by Richard Sayce

Adrak Ginger Curry Recipe In my opinion the hearty and fiery ginger root (the Hindi word is ‘adrak’) merits a specially dedicated curry of its own. My version is a medium-hot curry featuring an abundance of fresh ginger and is complemented with onions, green pepper,...