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Chicken Mudhi

A classic British Indian Restaurant chicken mudhi 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
10
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
  • 1 clove
  • 50 gm onion (prepared weight)
  • ¼ tspn black mustard seeds
  • ½ tspn garlic (crushed)
  • ¼ tspn black pepper
  • 1½ tspn ground coriander
  • ½ - 1 tspn chilli powder (to taste)
  • ¼ tspn ground cumin
  • 300 ml c46 curry base sauce (see note 1)
  • ¼ tspn turmeric
  • 1 portion g2 pre-cooked chicken
  • ¼ tspn fenugreek
  • ¼ tspn salt
  • ¼ tspn fennel seeds
  • 20 gm creamed coconut

Method

  1. 1

    Slice the onion.

  2. 2

    Crush the garlic and mix with a little water to make a thin paste.

  3. 3

    Crush the fennel seeds, clove and black mustard seeds to a fine powder in a pestle and mortar.

  4. 4

    Grate, or finely chop, the creamed coconut.

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

    Add the garlic paste and cook, stirring, for .

  7. 7

    Add the ground coriander, ground cumin, turmeric, fenugreek, ground fennel seeds, ground clove, ground black mustard seeds, black pepper and chilli powder and cook, stirring, for , adding a little c46 base sauce as needed to prevent drying and burning.

  8. 8

    Add the 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.

  9. 9

    Reduce the heat and stir in the creamed coconut and heat through for .

  10. 10

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

My Notes

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