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Methi Chicken

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

18 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
Easy
Difficulty
9
Ingredients
7
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 portion g2 pre-cooked chicken
  • 1 tspn ground coriander
  • 2 tbspn oil
  • ¼ tspn hot chilli powder
  • 300 ml c46 curry base sauce (see note 1)
  • ¼ tspn salt
  • 10 gm methi (dried fenugreek leaves)
  • ¼ tspn garam masala
  • 1 tspn tomato purée

Method

  1. 1

    Grind the methi as finely as possible to produce a smooth sauce.

  2. 2

    Heat the oil in a suitable pan over a medium heat and stir fry the methi for .

  3. 3

    Add 40 ml of c46 base sauce and stir for .

  4. 4

    Stir in the salt, chilli powder, ground coriander and tomato purée and stir for .

  5. 5

    Stir in 80 ml of c46 base sauce and simmer for , adding c46 base sauce as needed to maintain your preferred sauce consistency.

  6. 6

    Add the c41 pre-cooked chicken and garam masala and cook, stirring regularly, for , adding c46 base sauce as needed to maintain your preferred sauce consistency.

  7. 7

    Serve with rice and optionally garnished with freshly chopped coriander.

My Notes

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