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Chicken Tikka Jalfrezi

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

20 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
Easy
Difficulty
14
Ingredients
10
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 c46 curry base sauce (see note 1)
  • 50 gm onion (prepared weight)
  • 1 tspn tomato purée
  • 60 gm green pepper (prepared weight)
  • 1 portion g2 pre-cooked chicken tikka
  • ½ tspn g2 spice mix
  • 2 tspn red or green chilli
  • ½ tspn chilli powder
  • ¼ tspn salt
  • ¼ tspn ground cumin
  • 1 - 2 tspn ginger
  • ¼ tspn ground coriander
  • 1 tbspn fresh coriander

Method

  1. 1

    Chop the onion.

  2. 2

    Deseed and slice the green pepper.

  3. 3

    Chop the chilli.

  4. 4

    Finely chop the ginger.

  5. 5

    Chop the fresh coriander.

  6. 6

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

  7. 7

    Add the c41 spice mix, chilli powder, ground cumin and ground coriander and cook, stirring regularly, for , adding a little c46 base sauce if needed to prevent drying and burning.

  8. 8

    Add the tomato purée, chicken tikka, red/green chilli, salt and 160 ml of c46 base sauce and cook, stirring regularly, for , adding c46 base sauce as needed maintain your preferred sauce consistency.

  9. 9

    Add the ginger and fresh coriander and cook for adding c46 base sauce as needed to maintain the desired sauce consistency.

  10. 10

    Serve with rice and garnish with freshly chopped coriander.

My Notes

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