Normally our recipes feature traditional Bulgarian dishes, however, often when living overseas, one gets the odd craving for a taste of home! It's not easy here to find really good Indian food unless you are prepared to drive to Sofia or Varna and eat in an Indian restaurant. Here's our recipe for a cheap, authentic tasting, Chicken Balti. In this recipe I'm using leftover chicken from a roast. One essential ingredient in this dish is a Balti Spice Mix available in Bulgaria from the British Lion Food Store, along with many other spice mixes for other indian dishes (Korma, Rogan Josh, Jalfrezi, etc.).
These spice mixes cost only 3.60 leva per packet and are enough to make 12 good portions of curry (depending how strong or mild you like your Indian food), which at 30 stotinki per portion for the spices, value for money bulgarian vegetables and leftover chicken makes this meal extremely cost effective.

Ingredients:
500g leftover roast chicken meat
2 medium onions
2 cloves garlic
1 small piece of fresh, peeled ginger (leave it out if you don't have it!)
1 Green Pepper
1 Red Pepper
Balti Spice Mix
3 tbsp Tomato Purée (or half a tin of chopped tomatoes if you don't have purée)
250 ml Chicken Stock
Flat leaf Parsley
Vegetable Oil
Butter

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