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Chicken Khumani

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

20 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
Easy
Difficulty
18
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
  • 300 ml c46 curry base sauce (see note 1)
  • 50 gm onion (prepared weight)
  • 1 tbspn tomato purée
  • ½ tspn ginger (grated)
  • 1 portion g2 pre-cooked chicken
  • ½ tspn garlic (crushed)
  • ¼ tspn salt
  • 1 tspn ground coriander
  • 30 gm dried apricots (ready to eat)
  • 1 tspn garam masala
  • 2 tspn white wine or cider vinegar
  • ½ tspn ground cumin
  • ½ tspn sugar
  • ¼ tspn turmeric
  • 1 tbspn double cream (or to taste)
  • ½ tspn chilli powder
  • 1 tbspn fresh coriander

Method

  1. 1

    Chop the onion.

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    Cut the apricots into 2 or 3 pieces.

  4. 4

    Chop the fresh coriander.

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

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

  7. 7

    Add the ground coriander, garam masala, ground cumin, turmeric 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, for , adding a little more c46 base sauce if needed to prevent drying.

  9. 9

    Add the c41 pre-cooked chicken 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 apricots, vinegar, sugar, cream and chopped coriander and cook, stirring regularly for , adding a little c46 base sauce if needed to maintain the desired sauce consistency.

  11. 11

    Serve with rice and garnish with some freshly chopped coriander.

My Notes

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