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Chicken Gulshan

Restaurant-quality chicken gulshan using the BIR method — deep flavour from base sauce, cooked to order in minutes.

20 min
Prep
30 min
Cook
Easy
Difficulty
14
Ingredients
11
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
  • 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. 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. 2

    Slice the onion.

  3. 3

    Grate the ginger, crush the garlic and mix together with a little water to make a paste.

  4. 4

    De-seed (or not if you prefer it hot) and roughly chop the green chilli.

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

    Add the ginger/garlic paste and cook, stirring, for about .

  7. 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. 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. 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. 10

    Reduce the heat and stir in the tamarind juice and cream and cook, stirring regularly, for .

  11. 11

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

My Notes

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