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Chicken Shatkora

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

20 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
Easy
Difficulty
15
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
  • 1 tbspn oil
  • ¼ tspn turmeric
  • 40 gm onion (prepared weight)
  • 1 tspn tomato pureé
  • 20 gm pre-cooked shatkora
  • 10 gm jaggery goor - optional (see note 2)
  • 300 ml c46 curry base sauce (see note 1)
  • 20 gm green pepper
  • ½ tspn g2 curry powder
  • 1 portion g2 pre-cooked chicken or g2 pre-cooked chicken tikka
  • ½ tspn ground coriander
  • ¼ tspn salt
  • ¼ tspn chilli powder
  • 2 tbspn juice (see note 3)
  • ¼ tspn ground cumin

Method

  1. 1

    Chop the onion and green pepper.

  2. 2

    Prepare the shatkora as follows (if using frozen shatkora, skip the initial cutting stage)...

  3. 3

    Heat the oil in a pan and cook the onion and pre-cooked shatkora for , adding 80 ml of c46 base sauce after 1 - .

  4. 4

    Add the curry powder, ground coriander, chilli powder, ground cumin and turmeric and cook, stirring constantly for , adding a little c46 base sauce as needed to prevent drying and burning.

  5. 5

    Add the tomato pureé, green pepper, jaggery goor and 80 ml of c46 base sauce and cook, stirring regularly for adding a little more c46 base sauce as needed to prevent drying.

  6. 6

    Stir in the chicken, 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.

  7. 7

    Reduce the heat and stir in 2 tbspn of reserved shatkora juice.

  8. 8

    Serve with rice.

My Notes

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