Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Curry

Our slow cooker chicken curry recipe is so easy to make, packed with vegetables that all count towards your five-a-day. The perfect easy family dinner recipe that they’ll all love. 

I know we are biased BUT... OMG this is such a good chicken curry.

It's perfect for Saturday nights when you want a take away, but fancy a healthier, less expensive version.

It tastes amazing and it's really easy to make. It should definitely be in your weekend food plans!

One of our favourite slow cooker meals to make!

How to make slow cooker chicken curry

Great Reasons To Make Our Slow Cooked Chicken Curry!

√ It's much less expensive than take-away curry

√ It's healthy and packed with fresh vegetables - all counts towards your 5-a-day

√ Super easy to prepare and cook

√ Can be made ahead or make a double batch and freeze some for another day.

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Equipment Needed

• Chopping board

• Sharp knife

• Tablespoon

• Cooking spoon

• Slow cooker

Slow Cooker Chicken Curry Ingredients

You'll just need a handful of ingredients to simmer up our tasty slow cooker chicken curry recipe

• 1 tablespoon Sunflower Oil

• 1 Onion - diced

• 1 Red Pepper - diced

• 450g Chicken Breast - diced

• 450g Potatoes - peeled and diced

• 400g Tin Tomatoes

• 2 tbs Curry Powder - I use mild when cooking for the kids

• 100g Fresh Spinach - roughly chopped

How To Make Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Curry

It's super easy to make our best slow cooker curry recipes!

The slow cooker I use at home is the CrockPot sauté model with removable hob safe pan - so I bring the curry to the boil on the hob before putting the pan into the CrockPot base to slow cook. If you don't have a hob safe slow cooker pan - use a saucepan for the hob cooking parts.

Step One - preheat the slow cooker

• Switch the slow cooker on to the low setting to warm up.

Step Two - fry the onions and chicken

• Heat the sunflower oil in the pan and gently sauté the chopped onions.

• Tip the diced chicken breast fillets into the slow cooker pan with the sautéed chopped onions.

• Gently stir fry over a low heat until the pink chicken turns a white colour.

Step Three - add the curry powder to the easy slow cooker chicken curry

• Tip in the mild curry powder and stir well to coat all the chicken.

Step Four - add the rest of the ingredients to the healthy slow cooker curry

• Next dice the pepper, peel and chop the potatoes and open a tin of chopped tomatoes

• Tip the cubed potatoes into the pan with the chicken and onions.

• Add the diced pepper to the slow cooker pan.

• Tip the tinned tomatoes into the slow cooker pan and add ⅓ tin of water - I just use the tomato tin to do this - swishing all the tomatoes off the side as I go.

• Stir everything together and bring to the boil then transfer to the slow cooker. I cook this on low for 6-8 hours whilst I just get on with my day.

Step Five - add the spinach to the Indian chicken curry slow cooker recipe

• Once the slow cooker chicken curry is cooked - roughly chop the fresh spinach.

• Cooks Tip - kids prefer spinach chopped up finely - it stops it going stringy in the curry and there's less complaining!

• You can eat the curry without the spinach if you prefer - I just like to add in as many vegetables I can sneak past the kids!

• Tip the chopped spinach into the curry and stir through - the spinach will just wilt in the heat of the curry after a few minutes.

• Once the spinach is wilted the curry is ready to serve.

Step Six - garnish and serve the slow cook chicken curry

• Serve the curry scattered with chopped coriander for added taste.

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How To Thicken Curry In Slow Cooker

Cooks Note! If you’re slow cook chicken curry needs thickening at the end of cooking you can do this easily with cornflour and water. 

• add 2 teaspoon of cornflour to a small cup or bowl. 

• add in 2 tbs of water and mix the cornflour into a paste

• pour this paste into the chicken curry, mix well and cook for a few minutes until the slow cooker curry is thicker. 

• you can repeat this if required until the stew is as thick as you’d like it to be

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How To Make Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Curry Your Way

• you can make this recipe with chicken mini fillets if you prefer, these are often cheaper than packets of chicken breasts.

• try adding in different vegetables like sweet potato, courgettes or aubergine.

• switch the chicken for turkey.

• if you like your curry spicy - make it hotter with a spicier curry powder.

• go vegetarian and skip the chicken, replace with a couple of tins of chickpeas.

What Sides To Serve With Chicken Curry?

Our slow cooker chicken curry is delicious served with plain boiled rice or chips... or you could even do half and half.

I like to add a side of naan breads and popadoms with dips. More side dishes to try are...

• Mint raita - simple Indian style dip made from shredded cucumber, fresh chopped mint leaves and creamy natural yogurt - great served with popadoms.

• Indian salad - a spicy, zesty salad of finely chopped lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers - the salad is flecked with freshly chopped chillies and coriander and served with a squeeze of lemon juice and pinch of sea salt.

• Easy veggie rice - a simple rice dish packed with extra veggies - good for adding more vegetables into your diet.

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More Slow Cooker Chicken Recipes to Make

• Slow Cooker Rustic Chicken Stew - a delicious flavoursome stew that's great for feeding the family on a cold wintery night.

• Slow Cooker Chicken Shawarma - use the slow cooker to create delicious spiced chicken you can shred and serve on flatbreads with salad and sauces.

• Slow Cooker Cajun Chicken Stew - a spicy chicken stew, bursting with Cajun flavours - delicious served with rice and peas.

• Chicken and sausage casserole - a super tasty, warming chicken casserole recipe that's perfect with mashed potatoes.

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Disclaimer - in a lot of our slow cooker recipes we use a crockpot where the inner pan in safe to use on the hob as well as in the crockpot. If you don’t have a hob safe slow cooker - then use a pan for any hob cooking then transfer to the slow cooker pan for slow cooking.