balti
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of balti
from Urdu bāltī pail
Example Sentences
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Final opportunity to warm up a balti pie.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024
Birmingham is the birthplace of the balti and home of the famous Balti Triangle.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2022
Birmingham has long-been considered the birthplace of the balti - a fusion dish popularised in the 1980s and 1990s by the city's Pakistani community.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2018
Eileen's entire life consists of eating a balti slice, wearing a minicab controller's headset and berating her son Jason's ex-girlfriends.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2010
So the balti, a staple of British-Indian restaurants, is another dish not found in India; it was invented by Pakistani chefs in Birmingham in the 1980s.
From Time Magazine Archive
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