Slow Cooker Coconut Chicken Curry

Slow Cooker Coconut Chicken Curry with amazing flavours is rich and creamy. This Easy Indian Chicken Curry is made with freshly ground spices for the best flavours.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Indian

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 3

Total Time 4 10

Servings Serving

Calories 454kcal

Equipment

Slow Cooker

Ingredients

500 grams Boneless Chicken Breast Or chicken thighs
2 tbspn Vegetable Oil
2 Medium Onion Finely chopped
1 tablespoon Garlic Finely minced
½ tablespoon Grated Ginger
2 tablespoon Curry Powder (Ref note 1)
¼ cup Tomato paste
2 tspn Kashmiri Red chilli powder (Ref note 2)
400 ml Coconut milk Use full-fat coconut milk
Salt to taste
Coriander leaves Also known as Cilantro. Use finely chopped.

Instructions

Prepare the curry base in a pan

Start with the curry base. To make the curry base heat oil in a pan.
Add finely chopped Onion to the pan. Cook on medium flame until the onion starts to soften and brown.
Then add minced garlic and ginger. Saute for a minute so that the raw smell of garlic and ginger is gone.
Add curry powder to the pan and saute for 30 seconds until aromatic. Keep stirring to avoid burning.

Add base with rest of ingredients to slow cooker

Add chicken pieces to the crockpot along with the onion-ginger-garlic base (made above), tomato paste, Kashmiri chili powder, salt, and coconut milk.
Mix well and cook on high for 3 hours or on low for 5 hours.
While serving sprinkle fresh coriander.

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Notes

The curry powder that I used was a mixture of coriander powder, cumin powder, fennel powder, cardamom powder, cloves, cinnamon, and turmeric powder. I have seen a few brands of curry powder, that contain only coriander, cumin, fennel, and turmeric powder. In that case, use 1.5 tablespoons of curry powder and 1 teaspoon of garam masala.
Kashmiri red chili powder is a less spicy chilli powder used in Indian Cuisine for giving deep red color to curries. You can use paprika instead. I also add 1/2 teaspoon chilli powder to the curry because we love it spicy.

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