Food at Faithlegg

One Saturday a month, head chef at Faithlegg House Hotel Jenny Flynn will join Maria McCann on The Saturday Café for Food At Faithlegg. This month Jenny is sharing her butter chicken recipe. Jenny will share a seasonal recipe and talk about the upcoming trends in the food world, focusing on local suppliers. She will also give tips and tricks for entertaining at home.

Indian Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhana) Curry

This is a recipe that can be adapted to vegan quite easily great flavour and marinade can be used for summer BBQ.

Tandoori chicken marinade

20g garlic puree

5g salt

5g chilli powder 1 lime juice only

20g ginger puree

5g turmeric

1 lime juice only

300ml natural yogurt

Dice the chicken and marinade for 12 hours before use

Butter chicken sauce

1 lb of butter (butter is used for cooking the chicken in)

Do not put butter into the sauce as it will make it not suitable for a vegan

1 large onion diced

35g ginger puree 8 cloves of garlic chopped

30g garam masala

8 cardamom seeds crushed

10g cayenne pepper

10g ground cumin

10g ground coriander

1 cinnamon stick

2 bay leaves

1 litre good-quality vegetable stock

200g tomato puree

1litre tomato passata

1lt coconut milk

Method:

Make the sauce by frying off the onion without colour add the spices with the garlic and ginger

Allow to cook slowing

Add liquid and cook for a further 5 mins

Keep stirring and cook out for 30mins it should become thicker sauce consistently

Remove cinnamon stick add chopped fresh coriander

 To assemble the dish

Melt butter in a pan fry off chicken and add sauce allow to cook for 15 mins

About Faithlegg

Faithlegg is an award-winning 4-star hotel set in beautiful grounds with its own 18 – hole golf course right on the doorstep. Opened officially by FBD Hotels & Resorts in 1998, Faithlegg is a luxury property designed to meet the needs of the most discerning guest whether staying for business or leisure.

Dining is always a pleasure at Faithlegg, where talented Head Chef Jenny Flynn takes pride in creating delicious dishes showcasing the very best of local ingredients.

Faithlegg takes pride in its dedicated team and boasts many long-serving experienced staff whose wealth of knowledge and genuine duty of customer care has managed to reach and maintain a high standard of service over the years.

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Listen in to The Saturday Café with Maria McCann, Saturdays from 10am for more