Indian Fakeaway Recipe: Butter Chicken Curry, Samosas, Saag Aloo (2024)

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A Delicious Slimming World Friendly Chicken Curry
Is there anything better than a cheeky Fakeaway? I mean, actual takeaways are great, but that feeling of creating your own from scratch is really special.

Indian is one of the most popular takeaways, and I have made lot's of Indian recipes before, like the classic Chicken Tikka Masala, or Indian Fakeaway.

This is another version of a fakeaway, featuring Butter Chicken, Saag Aloo, and Samosas, all slimming friendly and super delicious!

Scroll down for full recipe and instructions

Saag Aloo is a delicious spinach based dish made with potatoes as well. It's one of my favourite side dishes!

I also had a couple of wholemeal naans that needed using up, so synned accordingly.

Butter chicken or Makhan murg is a dish of chicken in a mildly spiced tomato sauce, with butter in it. I marinate the chicken pieces overnight so that they are extra succulent.

The samosas are pretty easy to make, and will only cost a couple of syns each.

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The perfect accompaniment for this dish:

Crucial yoghurt and mint 1L

Only3 syns per tablespoon, and tastes just like an Indian takeaway sauce. It goes perfectly with the samosas!

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Butter ChickenRecipe

Extra Easy Syn Value: 2.5 syns per portion

Healthy Extras: None

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You will need:

2 cloves of garlic, crushed
2 large onion, finely diced
2 tsp of fresh grated ginger
1 carton of passata
200ml of water
2 tsp of chilli powder
1 tsp of paprika
1 tsp of garam masala
1/4 tsp of cayenne pepper
1 tbsp of butter
cooking oil spray
4 boneless chicken breast, diced
120ml of fat free plain yogurt
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
2 tsp of grated fresh ginger
2 tsp of chilli powder
1 tsp of paprika
1 tsp of garam masala
pinch of salt
1 tbsp of fat free fromage frais

Juice from half a lime

Method:

Mix together the yogurt, garlic, ginger, chilli powder, paprika, lime juice, garam masala and a pinch of salt. Add to the chicken and mix to coat.

Marinate overnight in the fridge.

Spray a large pan with low calorie cooking spray.

Add the marinated chicken and cook off over a medium heat.

Once cooked, remove the chicken and set aside.

Fry off the onion for a fee minutes in the pan. Once they have softened, addgarlic, ginger and the spices. Add some water to stop it from drying up.

Samosas

Extra Easy Syn Value: 2 syns each

Healthy Extras: None

You will need:

Low calorie cooking spray

250g Extra lean beef mince

1 tbsp mild curry powder

2 potatoes, peeled, boiled and mashed up

handful of frozen peas

4 tbsp finely chopped coriander

1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped

Salt

3 jumbo filo pastry sheets

Method:

Spray a large non-stick frying pan with low calorie cooking spray and place over a medium heat.

Add the curry powder, beef mince and peas and stir-fry for 4 minutes. Remove from the heat and add the chopped coriander and red chilli, season well with salt and set aside.

Preheat the oven to 190°C. Line a large baking sheet with baking parchment. Place the three filo sheets on top of each other and cut them in half width ways.

Cut each half into three even strips length ways to give you a total of six strips of filo per sheet (18 strips in total).

Lay the strips on a clean work surface and lightly spray with low calorie cooking spray. Place a teaspoon of the potato filling at the bottom of each strip and fold the pastry diagonally to enclose the filling and form a triangle.

Press down on the pastry and fold again until you reach the end of the strip leaving you with a triangular pastry parcel. Repeat with the remaining strips and filling to make 18 parcels.

Place the parcels in a single layer on the prepared baking sheet, spray with low calorie cooking spray and bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden and crisp. Remove from the oven

Saag Aloo

Extra Easy Syn Value: Syn Free

Healthy Extras: None

You will need:

1 tsp cumin seeds
2 garlic cloves, sliced
1 tbsp ginger, thinly sliced
2 tomatoes, chopped
600g baby spinach, finely sliced
4 potatoes, peeled & chopped into cubes
1 tsp salt or to taste
1 or 2 chillies, finely sliced
1 tsp garam masala

Method:

Spray a pan with low calorie cooking spray. Add the cumin seeds.

Add the garlic and ginger and fry for a few minutes on a low heat. Stir in the tomatoes, chilli and salt.

Then add the cubed potatoes and stir them gently to coat them in the sauce.

Reduce the heat and place a lid on the pan. Cook for about 10 minutes, remembering to stir occasionally.

Once the potatoes have softened, add the spinach and garam masala. Cook for a further few minutes until the spinach has wilted, then serve!

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