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Balti Sauce - 4














Ingredients
Quantity

Sodium chicken broth
½ cup
Serrano pepper – seeded and chopped
3
Large yellow onions – sliced  
2
Garlic – minced
1 tsp
Fresh ginger – minced
1 tsp
Turmeric
1 tsp
Garam masala
1 tsp
Canned tomatoes – chopped
14 ½ ounces
Fresh cilantro leaves
½ cup


Heat 1/4 cup of chicken broth in a large saucepan. Add serrano peppers, onions, garlic, and ginger. Saute until onions are soft, about 5 minutes. Add remaining ingredients. Heat to a boil. Lower heat; simmer 20 minutes. Let cool. Pour mixture into blender and add 1/4 cup of chicken broth. Yields 3 cups. Puree until smooth. Sauce can be refrigerated for a week or frozen for up to two months.

NOTES : "Balti- basically, a stir-fried curry- originated with a nomadic people in India. Now it's the most popular dish at hot Indian restaurants in England. "Balti houses" are more popular in England than in India, where the cuisine is so regional. It supposedly comes from the 'Baltistan' region in northern India- it's now part of north Pakistan- where the people were nomadic and carried minimal cooking equipment."