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🍲 A metal pot 🍛 A curry dish
balti

balti

6.7
A round shallow metal pan for cooking or serving curry
  • noun
  • /ˈbɑːlti/
  • UK
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  • The chef prepared the spicy chicken curry in a traditional balti for an authentic flavor.

Examples

  • She bought a new balti to try making her favorite curry at home.

  • At the restaurant, the lamb was served piping hot in a gleaming balti.

  • The chef cooked the curry in a large balti.

  • I love eating from a balti dish!

  • The chef prepared the spicy chicken curry in a traditional balti for an authentic flavor.

  • At the restaurant, the lamb was served piping hot in a gleaming balti.

  • She bought a new balti to try making her favorite curry at home.

Surface Forms

balti singular
baltis plural

Etymology

Balti comes from the Hindi and Urdu word balti, which means 'bucket' or 'pail'. The metal cooking pan is round and deep like a small bucket, so the name came to mean the pan used to cook or serve curry.