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Achari Chicken

A takeaway-style achari chicken with that authentic BIR flavour. Uses a pre-made base sauce for speed without sacrificing taste.

20 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
Easy
Difficulty
14
Ingredients
8
Steps
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Requires G2Quick & clever — surprisingly authentic

G2 Quick Base Sauce

1200 ml (4 portions) · 10 minutes · Easy

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Key ingredients

½ of a 415 gm tin french onion soup (200 ml) · 1 tin (400 gm) tomato soup · 1 tbspn oil · ½ tspn salt · 1½ tspn garlic granules · 1½ tspn ground coriander · +2 more

Ingredients

Servings
  • 2 tbspn oil
  • ½ tspn fennel seeds
  • 50 gm onion (prepared weight)
  • ¼ tspn turmeric
  • 1 tspn green chilli (chopped)
  • ¼ tspn ground cumin
  • 2 tspn amchoor powder (see note 1)
  • 300 ml c46 curry base sauce (see note 3)
  • ½ tspn chilli powder
  • 1 portion g2 pre-cooked chicken
  • ½ tspn ground coriander
  • ¼ tspn salt
  • ½ tspn methi (see note 2)
  • 2 tbspn evaporated milk (see note 4)

Method

  1. 1

    Chop the onion.

  2. 2

    Deseed and chop the green chilli.

  3. 3

    Crush the fennel seeds to a powder in a pestle and mortar.

  4. 4

    Heat the oil in a suitable pan and cook the onion and green chilli, stirring regularly, for .

  5. 5

    Stir in the amchoor powder, chilli powder, ground coriander, methi, fennel powder, turmeric and ground cumin and cook, stirring, for , adding a little c46 base sauce as needed to prevent drying and burning.

  6. 6

    Add the c41 pre-cooked chicken, salt and 80 ml of c46 base sauce and cook, stirring regularly, for , adding c46 base sauce as needed to maintain the desired sauce consistency.

  7. 7

    Reduce the heat and stir in the evaporated milk and (optionally) a little more amchoor powder to taste (maybe ¼ - ½ tspn), and cook for .

  8. 8

    Serve with rice and garnish with a little freshly chopped coriander.

My Notes

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