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Chicken Jalfrezi

A classic British Indian Restaurant chicken jalfrezi made with a pre-cooked base sauce. Rich, fragrant and ready in under 20 minutes.

20 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
Easy
Difficulty
16
Ingredients
13
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
  • 300 ml c46 curry base sauce (see note 2)
  • 50 gm onion (prepared weight)
  • 2 tspn tomato purée
  • 20 gm green pepper
  • 2 green chillies (or to taste)
  • 20 gm red pepper
  • 1 portion g2 pre-cooked chicken
  • ½ tspn ginger (grated)
  • ¼ tspn salt
  • ½ tspn garlic (crushed)
  • ½ tspn chilli pickle
  • 1 tbspn g2 spice mix
  • 1 slice tomato
  • 1 tspn methi (see note 1)
  • 1 tspn chilli powder

Method

  1. 1

    Chop the onion.

  2. 2

    Chop or slice the green and red peppers.

  3. 3

    Slice the green chillies lengthwise and remove the seeds.

  4. 4

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

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

    Add the green pepper and red pepper and cook, stirring regularly, for .

  7. 7

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

  8. 8

    Add the c41 spice mix, methi and chilli powder and cook, stirring, for , adding a little c46 base sauce if needed to prevent drying and burning.

  9. 9

    Add the tomato purée and 40 ml of c46 base sauce and cook, stirring, for .

  10. 10

    Add the green chillies and cook, stirring regularly, for .

  11. 11

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

  12. 12

    Add the chilli pickle and fresh tomato cook, Stirring regularly, for , adding a little c46 base sauce as required to maintain the desired sauce consistency.

  13. 13

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

My Notes

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