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Chicken Tikka Bhuna

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

20 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
Easy
Difficulty
14
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
  • 1 tbspn oil
  • ½ tspn chilli powder
  • 50 gm onion (prepared weight)
  • 4 green cardamom pods
  • 80 gm green pepper (prepared weight)
  • 1 portion g2 pre-cooked chicken tikka
  • 2 tspn green chilli
  • 300 ml c46 curry base sauce (see note 1)
  • 1 tspn ginger
  • 1 tbspn tomato purée
  • 1 tspn garlic
  • ¼ tspn ground coriander
  • ½ tspn curry powder
  • 1 tomato

Method

  1. 1

    Chop the onion.

  2. 2

    Deseed the green pepper and chop into 1 inch squares.

  3. 3

    Finely chop the green chilli.

  4. 4

    Finely chop the ginger.

  5. 5

    Finely chop the garlic.

  6. 6

    Deseed the cardamom pods and lightly crush in a pestle and mortar.

  7. 7

    Chop the tomato into 8 pieces (use about 60 gm).

  8. 8

    Heat the oil in a suitable pan and cook the onion, green pepper and green chilli, stirring regularly, for .

  9. 9

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

  10. 10

    Add the curry powder, chilli powder and ground cardamom seeds and fry, stirring, for , adding a little c46 base sauce if needed to prevent drying and burning.

  11. 11

    Stir in the chicken tikka, 80 ml of c46 base sauce and the tomato purée and cook, stirring regularly, for , adding c46 base sauce as needed to prevent drying.

  12. 12

    Stir in ground coriander and the tomato pieces and cook for , stirring regularly, adding c46 base sauce as needed to prevent drying and to produce the desired sauce consistency.

  13. 13

    Serve with rice and garnish with freshly chopped coriander.

My Notes

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