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Lamb Bengali

A takeaway-style lamb bengali with that authentic BIR flavour. Uses a pre-made base sauce for speed without sacrificing taste.

20 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
Medium
Difficulty
16
Ingredients
6
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
  • 1 portion g2 pre-cooked lamb
  • 50 gm onion (prepared weight)
  • ¼ tspn salt
  • 300 ml c46 curry base sauce (see note 1
  • 200 gm potato (prepared weight)
  • 1 tspn tomato purée
  • 1 tbspn tamarind juice (see note 2)
  • 1½ tspn hot chilli powder
  • 1 tspn sugar
  • ¾ tspn turmeric
  • 1 tspn red chilli
  • ¼ heaped tspn ground cumin
  • 1 tbspn fresh coriander
  • ¼ heaped tspn ground coriander
  • ½ tspn garam masala

Method

  1. 1

    Chop the onion.

  2. 2

    Deseed and finely chop the red chilli.

  3. 3

    Break up enough of the dry tamarind block to fill a tablespoon and put in a small bowl. Just cover with a little boiling water, mash lightly and leave to soak for . Then press through a sieve to remove any seeds.

  4. 4

    Peel the potato and cut into 1 cm cubes. Boil in salted water until just cooked, drain, sprinkle with a little salt and allow to dry.

  5. 5

    Fry the potato until nice and brown in a little oil, then tip onto kitchen paper, dust with a little salt and reserve.

  6. 6

    Chop the fresh coriander.

My Notes

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