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Chicken Nagaland

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

18 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
Easy
Difficulty
9
Ingredients
8
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
  • Continued
  • 2 - 3 tbspn oil
  • 300 ml c46 curry base sauce
  • 10 gm green chillies
  • 2 tspn tomato purée
  • 4 cl garlic
  • 1 portion g2 pre-cooked chicken
  • 1 tspn chilli powder
  • ½ tspn salt

Method

  1. 1

    Roughly chop the green chilli (seeds in or out depending on your heat tolerance).

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    Add the oil to a suitable pan and cook the green chilli, stirring regularly, for .

  4. 4

    Add the garlic and cook, stirring, for ½ min .

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

    Add the tomato purée and 40 ml of c46 base sauce and cook, stirring for , adding a little c46 base sauce if needed to prevent drying and burning.

  7. 7

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

  8. 8

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

My Notes

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