Name: Slow Cooker Chicken Curry
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 7 h
Total time: 7 h 5 min
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon vegetable oil - if you are going to seal the chicken first; 4 skinless chicken fillets - cubed; 1½ tablespoons Patak's Jalfrezi spice paste; 2 x 500g jars of jalfrezi curry sauce - Tesco or Asda's own brand; 1 large onion - peeled and cut into small dice; 1 red bell pepper - sliced; ½ a green bell pepper -sliced; 1 red chilli pepper - top and tailed and chopped very small (remove seeds for less heat); 2 fresh tomatoes - quartered

You will love this slow cooker (crock pot) chicken curry, it's so easy to make.

Cooking doesn't get any easier to make than this!

A tasty slow cooker Indian curry with just a few ingredients and using shop bought jar sauce as the curry base.

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This my friends is the cheat's way of making a delicious easy chicken curry - no fuss, no expensive spices and time-consuming curry base sauce to make, this is the easiest recipe you'll ever make!

Far better than takeaway from your nearest curry house.

This curry is one of my favourite cheap meals to make. Ideal for anyone that doesn't want a cupboard full of spices and doesn't have time to cook.

No Need to Make a Curry Sauce Base!

Chicken fillets

Jalfrezi jar curry sauce - Tesco or Asda's own brand

Patak's Jalfrezi spice paste

Onion

Red and green peppers

Chilli pepper

Fresh tomato

Recipe Top Tips - Please read before making!

You can make this even more simple by just dumping the jar of sauce and the chicken into the slow cooker - leaving out the rest of the ingredients, but it won't taste half as good.

Although Tesco's or Asda's jars of Jalfrezi sauce are, in my opinion excellent, they are made all the nicer and tastier by adding a few extra ingredients.

We're not fans of Sainsbury's curry sauce jars as we both find them too salty - just saying! They are both cheap, and at the time of writing, they are less than £1 a jar.

Of course, other brands are available, so just use one you like.

I use the Morphy Richards Easy Time slow cooker, it's excellent as you can use the removable cooking pot on the stovetop which saves on both mess and washing up.

For this recipe, you will need the 3.5L size slow cooker, but it is available in a larger family-sized 6.5L which is fantastic if you're into batch cooking.

Just remember, whatever size you use you do have to fill it halfway otherwise the cooking times will be totally different.

Food cooked in a slow cooker tends to need thickening since the moisture can't escape. I use McDougalls Instant Thickening Granules they are excellent and never any lumps. But you can dissolve some cornflour in a really tiny amount of water and stir it through.

For a Mild Chicken Curry

You can make this curry as mild or as hot as you want it. Leave out the chilli and use a milder jar curry sauce such as Korma.

Hot Chicken Curry

We like spicy curry and so I also add 2 teaspoons of chilli powder to this recipe and I leave the seeds in the chilli. I actually use Patak's madras spice paste rather than jalfrezi.

What to Serve with Chicken Curry

Boiled or steamed basmati or long grain rice - I love my rice cooker (or from a microwave pouch if you're in a real hurry!

Naan bread - we love Peshwari naan

Poppadoms

More Slow Cooker Curries

If you want to make an Indian chicken curry that has loads of ingredients and does involve making a curry sauce base, you like this spicy Gordon Ramsay curry recipe.

Or how about this Easy Thai Red Curry - cooked in a slow cooker!

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Yield: 4

Author: Jan Bennett