The British Indian Restaurant (BIR) Curry

This history of curry is covered in my curry information and recipes page, so I will only summarise the origins and arrival of curry in the UK here and how that evolved into the restaurant-style curries that we all love and enjoy today.


As well as the classic BIR curries with the ingredients mentioned above I am also including balti dishes her as balti-style restaurant dishes (bāltī gosht) have become a mainstay of many British Indian (as well as Bangladeshi and Pakistani) restaurants. It should be noted that many of the 'Indian' restaurants that opened in the 1960s and 1970s had Bangladeshi proprietors, which is why Bangladeshi-style dishes presented as 'Indian' foods tended to dominate.

This page is a continuation of the list of British Indian Restaurant (BIR) Curry recipes held on the FabulousFusionFood site. If you are specifically looking for this site's brief History of the Origins of Curry then please go back to the First Page of the Curry Recipes entry on this site.