Butter Chicken
Restaurant-quality butter chicken using the BIR method — deep flavour from base sauce, cooked to order in minutes.
G2 Quick Base Sauce
1200 ml (4 portions) · 10 minutes · Easy
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
- 2 tbspn oil
- 1 tspn tandoori masala (see note 2)
- 1 tspn garlic
- ½ tspn garam masala
- 1 tspn ginger
- ½ tspn methi (see note 3)
- 1 tspn red chilli
- ½ tspn chilli powder
- 2 tbspn ground almonds
- 1 portion g2 pre-cooked chicken tikka
- 1 tbspn tomato purée
- ¼ tspn salt
- 300 ml c46 curry base sauce (see note 1)
- 30 gm butter
- 1 tspn g2 curry powder
- 2 tbspn evaporated milk
- 1 tspn lime juice (see note 4)
Method
- 1
Crush the garlic.
- 2
Grate the ginger.
- 3
Deseed and roughly chop the chilli.
- 4
Chop the butter into pieces and keep in the fridge until ready to use.
- 5
Using a low to medium flame, heat the oil in a wok or heavy pan and fry the garlic, ginger and red/green chilli for about .
- 6
Stir in the ground almonds and cook, stirring constantly, for .
- 7
Stir in the tomato purée and 40 ml of c46 base sauce and cook, stirring for , adding a little c46 base sauce if needed to prevent drying and burning.
- 8
Increase the heat and stir in the c41 curry powder, tandoori masala, garam masala, methi and chilli powder and cook, stirring constantly for , adding a little c46 base sauce if needed to prevent drying and burning.
- 9
Stir in the c41 pre-cooked chicken tikka, 80 ml of c46 base sauce and salt and cook for , adding c46 base sauce as needed to maintain the desired sauce consistency.
- 10
Reduce the heat and add the butter, stirring until melted.
- 11
Add the evaporated milk and cook, stirring regularly, for , adding c46 base sauce as needed to maintain the desired sauce consistency.
- 12
Reduce the heat to low and stir in the lime juice and cook for .
- 13
Serve with rice and garnish with a little freshly chopped coriander.