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Chicken Nobabi

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

20 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
Easy
Difficulty
18
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
  • ½ tspn chilli powder
  • 40 gm yellow/orange pepper
  • ½ tspn garam masala
  • 30 gm onion (prepared weight)
  • 300 ml c46 curry base sauce (see note 1)
  • ½ tspn ginger (grated)
  • 1 tspn tomato puree
  • ½ tspn garlic (crushed)
  • 1 portion g2 pre-cooked chicken
  • 1 tspn garlic pickle
  • ¾ tspn mango pickle (preferred) or ½ tspn chilli pickle
  • 1 tspn ground coriander
  • ¼ tspn salt
  • 1 tspn ground cumin
  • 1 tspn mango chutney
  • ½ tspn turmeric
  • 20 gm butter

Method

  1. 1

    Chop the onion.

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    Deseed the yellow or orange pepper and cut into 1 - 1½ inch squares.

  4. 4

    Finely chop the chilli or mango pickle (removes large pieces of chilli/mango).

  5. 5

    Chop the butter into about 1 cm cubes.

  6. 6

    Heat the oil in a suitable pan and fry the yellow/orange pepper for , stirring regularly.

  7. 7

    Add the onion and fry for , stirring regularly.

  8. 8

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

  9. 9

    Stir in the ground coriander, ground cumin, turmeric, chilli powder and garam masala and cook, stirring, for , adding a little c46 base sauce as needed to prevent drying and burning.

  10. 10

    Add the tomato puree and 40 ml of c46 base sauce and cook, stirring, for adding c46 base sauce as needed to prevent drying.

  11. 11

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

  12. 12

    Stir in the mango chutney and butter and cook for .

  13. 13

    Serve with rice and garnish with freshly chopped coriander.

My Notes

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