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Chicken Vindaloo

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

20 min
Prep
6 min
Cook
Easy
Difficulty
12
Ingredients
9
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
  • 1 tbspn tomato purée
  • 2¼ tspn g2 vindaloo spice mix
  • 1 portion of g2 pre-cooked chicken
  • 2 tspn chilli powder (adjust to taste)
  • 1 tspn red or green chilli
  • 300 ml c46 base sauce (see note 1)
  • 50 gm potato (prepared weight)
  • ½ tspn ginger
  • 20 ml wine vinegar
  • ½ tspn garlic
  • ¼ tspn salt

Method

  1. 1

    Peel the potatoes and cut into ½ inch cubes.

  2. 2

    Boil the potato in salted, boiling water for 5 - (do not over cook).

  3. 3

    Finely chop the red or green chilli, including seeds if you want more heat.

  4. 4

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

  5. 5

    Heat the oil in a suitable pan and fry the c41 vindaloo spice mix and chilli powder, stirring, for adding a little c46 base sauce if needed to prevent drying and burning.

  6. 6

    Add the ginger/garlic paste and cook, stirring, for , adding a little c46 base sauce if needed to prevent drying and burning.

  7. 7

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

  8. 8

    Stir in the c41 pre-cooked chicken, red/green chilli, potatoes, vinegar, salt and 80 ml c46 base sauce and cook, stirring regularly, for , gradually adding more c46 base sauce as needed to maintain the desired sauce consistency.

  9. 9

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

My Notes

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