Slow Cooker Whole Chicken Curry based on a Jamie Oliver Recipe

Based on Jamie Oliver’s chicken Balti home-made curry sauce. With just a few tweaks. This is a whole chicken curry UK slow cooker recipe. I’ve also added brown lentils to thicken the sauce. And to make this a one-pot family dinner.

For more slow cooker chicken recipes. See my list of posts, included below.

Whole Chicken Curry – UK Slow Cooker Recipe

Based on the curry sauce recipe from Jamie Oliver online recipe, linked below. And the method for cooking a whole chicken in the slow cooker, from my BBC Good Food: Slow Cooker Favourites Cookbook.

I’ve come up with this whole chicken curry slow cooker recipe!

Ingredients (6 servings)

• 1.5 kg whole chicken.
• Twice the quantity of Jamie Oliver’s Perfect Chicken Balti curry sauce recipe, excluding the chicken.
• 1 tsp ground turmeric.
• 1 tb tomato puree.
• Salt, to taste.
• 150 g brown lentils, I use *KTC Brown Lentils. Washed and drained.

I made this slow cooker chicken recipe in a Morphy Richards Accents Sear and Stew 3.5 L Slow Cooker (See my review).

Method (Total Cooking Time: 5 to 6 hours)

1. To make the home-made curry paste, follow Jamie Oliver’s Perfect Chicken Balti recipe. But make twice the quantity. Up to and including step 6, EXCEPT for adding the chicken.
2. Place the whole chicken in to the slow cooker. Add the curry paste, plus the turmeric and tomato paste.
3. Pour just-boiled water, over the chicken to almost cover it. For my 3.5 litre slow cooker, this was about 750 ml.
4. Cover with the lid, cook on High for 3 hours. Then turn the chicken over, breast-side down. Add the lentils, making sure the lentils are immersed in the liquid. Cover and continue to cook for another 2 to 3 hours. Until the chicken it completely cooked through. And the lentils are soft.
5. Once cooked, shred the chicken, removing the skin and bones.
6. Stir through some chopped fresh coriander and plain yoghurt, as per Jamie’s recipe.
7. Serve with rice or naan bread.

More UK Slow Cooker Chicken Recipes

Cooking a Whole Chicken in a Slow Cooker.
Easy Chicken and Barley Stew Slow Cooker UK Recipe.
Chicken Tagine Slow Cooker UK Recipe.

See also my Reviews of the Best Slow Cooker Recipe Books. Including top cook book reviews and new UK release round-ups.

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