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Chicken Sharabi

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

20 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
Easy
Difficulty
15
Ingredients
12
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
  • 1 tbspn oil
  • 300 ml g2 curry base sauce
  • 1 tspn g2 punjabi spice mix
  • 1 tspn tomato purée
  • ½ tspn hot chilli powder
  • 3 tbspn chopped tomato
  • ¼ tspn turmeric
  • 1 tspn green chilli
  • ¼ tspn paprika
  • 50 gm green pepper
  • ½ tspn ginger
  • ¼ tspn salt
  • ½ tspn garlic
  • 1 portion precooked chicken
  • 1 tbspn whisky

Method

  1. 1

    Home

  2. 2

    Finely chop the ginger.

  3. 3

    Finely chop the garlic.

  4. 4

    Chop the green chilli.

  5. 5

    Roughly chop the green pepper.

  6. 6

    Heat the oil in a wok or heavy pan and fry the c41 punjabi spice mix, chilli powder, turmeric and paprika, stirring, for ½ min.

  7. 7

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

  8. 8

    Add the whisky (it will spit) and cook, stirring, for .

  9. 9

    Add 80 ml of c41 base sauce and cook, stirring regularly, for , adding more c41 base sauce as needed to prevent drying.

  10. 10

    Add the tomato purée, chopped tomato, green chilli, green pepper, salt and 80 ml of c41 base sauce and cook, stirring regularly, for , adding more c41 base sauce as needed to prevent drying.

  11. 11

    Add the chicken and 80 ml of c41 base sauce and cook, stirring regularly, for , adding c41 base sauce as needed to maintain the desired sauce consistency.

  12. 12

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

My Notes

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