Chicken Gulshan
Restaurant-quality chicken gulshan 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
- 2 tspn tomato purée
- 30 gm onion (prepared weight)
- 1 portion g2 pre-cooked chicken tikka
- ½ tspn ginger (grated)
- 2 tbspn (10 gm) green chilli (chopped)
- ½ tspn garlic (crushed)
- 3 tbspn chopped tomato
- 1 tspn g2 tikka spice mix
- ¼ tspn salt
- ½ tspn chilli powder
- 2 tbspn tamarind juice (to taste)
- 300 ml c46 curry base sauce (see note 1)
- 3 tbspn single cream
Method
- 1
Chop 20 gm of tamarind block into small pieces and put into a small bowl adding 80 ml of boiling water. Set aside for between 15 and , mashing a few times. Finally press through a sieve to remove the debris and seed - this should produce about 2 tbspn of thick juice.
- 2
Slice the onion.
- 3
Grate the ginger, crush the garlic and mix together with a little water to make a paste.
- 4
De-seed (or not if you prefer it hot) and roughly chop the green chilli.
- 5
Heat the oil in a suitable pan cook the onion, stirring regularly, for .
- 6
Add the ginger/garlic paste and cook, stirring, for about .
- 7
Add the c41 tikka spice mix and chilli powder and cook, stirring, for , adding a little c46 base sauce if needed to prevent drying and burning.
- 8
Add the tomato purée and 40 ml of c46 base sauce and cook, stirring regularly, for , adding a little more c46 base sauce if needed to prevent drying.
- 9
Add the c41 pre-cooked chicken tikka, green chilli, chopped tomato, 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.
- 10
Reduce the heat and stir in the tamarind juice and cream and cook, stirring regularly, for .
- 11
Serve with rice and garnish with a little freshly chopped coriander.