Chicken Lazeez
Restaurant-quality chicken lazeez 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
- 15 gm onion (1) (prepared weight)
- ¼ tspn methi (see note 1)
- 15 gm green pepper (prepared weight)
- 1/8 tspn cardamom powder
- 20 gm fresh tomato (prepared weight)
- 300 ml c46 curry base sauce (see note 2)
- 2 tbspn oil
- 3 tbspn chopped tomato
- 50 gm onion (2) (prepared weight)
- 1 tbspn tomato purée
- ¼ tspn cumin seeds
- 1 portion g2 pre-cooked chicken tikka
- ¼ tspn ginger (grated)
- ¼ tspn salt
- ¼ tspn garlic (crushed)
- 2 tbspn milk powder (see note 3)
- ½ tspn ground coriander
- 2 or 3 tbspn single cream
- ¼ tspn chilli powder
- 1 tspn runny honey
- ¼ tspn turmeric
Method
- 1
Chop the onion (1) into 1 inch pieces.
- 2
De seed and chop the fresh tomato flesh and green pepper into 1 inch pieces.
- 3
Heat a little oil in a pan and fry the 1 inch pieces of onion (1), green pepper and fresh tomato, for between 1 - , over a medium flame to remove the rawness then set aside. This will be used as a garnish at the end.
- 4
Chop the onion (2).
- 5
Grate the ginger, crush the garlic and mix together with a little water to make a paste.