Topic: Chicken Naga - with piccy

[Vindaloo-crazy]

I'm almost there, it's about 90% right...

Chicken Naga - Hotter than the rectal gasses of the Lucifuge himself.

Pre-cooked chicken
3 1/2 ladles of warmed Taz's base gravy
2 tablespoons of oil (cheapest available)
1 tablespoon of finely chopped garlic
2 tablespoons of tomato paste
12 whole green finger chillies, stalks chopped off, or 6 nagas if you can get them
1 tablespoon of mix powder (Taz's is good)
3 teaspoons of hot chilli powder
1/4 teaspoon of asafoetida
1 teaspoon of dried fenugreek leaves
2 desertspoons of chocolate spread (Yes, chocolate spread!) (the stuff you get in a glass jar with a lid)
1 teaspoon MSG
2 tablespoons of chopped coriander.




Add the oil to your pan set at medium heat. Allow the oil to warm.

Add the chopped garlic. Keep stirring, scraping the pan and cook the garlic until it turns a very light brown in colour. Take from

heat.

Add the tomato paste. Chuck in the green finger chillies. Return to the heat and stir in with the edge of the chef's spoon. Keep

stirring until the oil goes reddish brown in colour.

Add the chilli powder and asafoetida, add the mix powder and fenugreek and stir around for 10 seconds, shaking the pan contents

about a bit.

Add a ladle of the base gravy and turn the heat up, keep stirring until it boils. Turn down heat to medium. Reduce until oil

separates.

Chuck in the pre-cooked chicken and chocolate spread. After about half a minute add the rest of the base gravy, ladles at a time to

keep the heat going.

When it is bubbling again add MSG.

Keep stirring!

After about 5 minutes add the finely chopped coriander. Leave to stand for a minute or two with a plate or lid over the pan, serve

garnished with coriander, on a bed of pilau rice and ideally with a keema naan and a few beers.

[Cory Ander]

Interesting recipe VC,

CHOCOLATE SPREAD! Now that has to be a first!? I'm going to lob some into my phal to see what it does....

[Vindaloo-crazy]

You may need to add a little water to the curry, it really thickens it up.

[Malc.]

It certainly look very colourful.

I know chocolate is added to a good Chilli Con Carne so I imagine it works well here too.

[Vindaloo-crazy]

I've realised there were never any nagas in this when I bought it, strictly finger chillies, so be careful if you make it with real naga chilles.

[chriswg]

I'd say 12 green chillies = 1 Naga. 6 Nagas would probably be an actual health risk.

[Razor]

Chilli and chocolate, classic combo but is it BIR though?

[Vindaloo-crazy]

Well I used to buy it from a BIR? It was really tasty too.

Yep, I know about the nagas, they never put them in, it was all finger chillies, I was robbed. Damn good curry though.