On Fri, 16 May 2008 10:24:55 -0400, George Cebulka >
wrote:

>Robert Klute wrote:
:
>>
>> "Balti" is an 'Indian' style developed in Birmingham, England in the
>> late 70s or early 80s. It is based on Kashmiri and Punjabi cooking with
>> the food cooked in a karai. The karai is similar to a wok.
>>
>> Gosht is usually goat meat in India.
>>
>>
>
>Balti Dishes
>
>Originally coming from the North-West mountaneous region of India, where
>the nomadic Pathani Tribe used the Baltisatan - Wok, to prepare & eat
>their uniquely flavoured meals. All Balti Dishes servered with Tandoori
>Roti.

Never heard of a baltisatan. There is a mountainous region in northern
Pakistan that was once the kingdom of Baltistan. The pan 'Balti' dishes
are cooked in a wok like pan called a karai or bati. Balti dishes have
a reputation of being one pot affairs, which may be where the Hindi word
for bucket - balti - comes from.

Birmingham claims to be the birth place of what we know as Balti dishes,
the existance of Baltistan, not withstanding. It certainly is the
source of the recipes in Chapman's books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balti_%28food%29


As a hint, any cookbook that has chicken tikka masala in it is English
Indian. An Indian Indian cookbook might have a recipe for Murgh
Makhani.




>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosht
>Definitions of Gosht on the Web:
>
> * A ghoust is a type of Pakistani or Indian curry dish made from lamb.
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosht

Gosht means meat, or flesh, in Urdu. As beef and pork are not eaten in
Hindu and Muslim communities, respectively, that basically leaves sheep
and goat as the default source of meat - as opposed to fowl or fish -
for meat dishes. Mutton and goat are generally not available in the US,
so when Indian recipes are translated into English they will specify
lamb as the meat to be used in 'gosht' recipes.

In India anytime you do see a menu in English when it specifies a dish
is made with 'mutton' you almost certainly will get goat and not mature
sheep.

If you wish to be specific about the type of gosht, or meat, then bakri
is goat, memna is lamb, and bhera is mutton.

The wikipedia entry should say ghoust, or ghost, is actually a northern
Indian dish made from meat.