The British Indian Restaurant (BIR) curry is more a style of cookery than anything else, though Bengali dishes tend to dominate. In fact, it could be said that most typical BIR curries include: a tomato-based base curry sauce; ginger-garlic paste; tomato purée; a basic curry mix powder along with cooked meat or vegetables along with curry spices or spice powders unique for the specific curry being made. There are currently 355 BIR recipes in total presented on this site.

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.