Recipe: Meat-free butter chicken

Meat-free butter chicken
Photo credit: Asian Food Network

Recipe courtesy of Asian Food Network

Swap chicken for Quorn's meatless chicken-free alternative in this creamy meat-free Indian classic.

The key is the yoghurt-tomato bath, infused with ginger, garlic, deeply scented cumin, and warming garam masala. Fry up the meat-free protein till it sizzles to a golden brown (or slightly brown if you want just a touch of crisp), then coat all over with the ghee-fragrant gravy.

Ingredients

Serves 2

  • 300g Quorn, prepped for cooking
  • 25g butter (clarified)
  • 5g ginger paste 
  • 5g garlic paste
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • 6g garam marsala
  • 1 tbsp tomato paste
  • 400ml water 
  • 100g yoghurt
  • 3g salt
  • 2g sugar
  • 1 sprig coriander (for garnish).

Directions

1. Making the curry

  • Heat up 15g of the clarified butter in a pan.
  • Add the garlic paste, ginger paste and cumin seeds. Fry for four minutes on a medium heat.
  • Add the garam marsala and tomato paste. Fry for a further three minutes.
  • Add water and simmer for five minutes.
  • Add in the yoghurt, salt and sugar. Simmer for another four minutes.
  • Add in the prepared Quorn pieces and cook for three minutes, making sure the pieces are coated evenly with the curry.
Cooking the curry and adding the Quorn
Photo credit: Asian Food Network

2. Garnish and serve

  • Garnish with coriander and drizzle over the remaining 10g of clarified butter. Serve.