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Slow Cooker Curry using Shop Bought Jar of Curry Sauce
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5 from 1 vote

Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Curry Recipe

How to make a slow cooker chicken curry using a jar of ready-made curry sauce.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time7 hours
Total Time7 hours 10 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Indian
Servings: 6

Ingredients

  • 640 g diced chicken thighs, boneless and skinless. About 8 chicken thighs.
  • 550 g sweet potatoes, skin-on, cut into ¾” (2cm) cubes. About 2 sweet potatoes
  • 2 fat spring onions, sliced. You can also use a normal onion.
  • 500 g jar of your favourite shop-bought curry sauce. In this version I used Sainsbury’s own-brand Tikka Masala. (Shop bought korma sauce, like Patak's would also work well here.)
  • 125 ml water (½ cup)
  • 60 g red lentils (optional)
  • 100 g defrosted garden peas
  • Salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions

  • Put the diced chicken thigh, sweet potatoes and spring onions into the slow cooker pot.
  • Pour the jar of curry sauce into a small saucepan. Use the ½ cup of water to rinse out the remaining sauce in the jar, and add to the pan too. (Or you can also heat this up in a microwave).
  • Heat the curry sauce just to the boil. Then pour this over the chicken and veggies in the slow cooker pot. Stir well.
  • Cover and cook on High for 30 minutes.
  • After this time turn it down to Low and cook for 3 hours.
  • At this point, add the peas, season and lentils, if using.
  • Continue cooking on Low for a further 3 to 4 hours. Until the chicken and the sweet potatoes are cooked through.
  • Serve with rice, naan or a (tomato and cucumber) salad. And a dollop of cooling plain yoghurt.

Notes

  • I used the red lentils to absorb any excess liquid. You need a certain amount of liquid to cook in the slow cooker, but sometimes the end result can be too runny/liquid. Red lentils help to thicken up the sauce, as well as adding more flavour to the end curry dish. (Better than using plain old cornflour).
  • Make this into a vegetarian curry, omit the chicken. Replace with the same weight of vegetables. For example white potatoes and cauliflower. And/or increase the amount of red lentils.
  • If you would prefer to use a homemade tikka masala curry paste recipe, made from scratch. Check out BBC GF Homemade Chicken Tikka Masala Paste – Recipe.
  • I made this slow cooker jarred curry recipe in a Morphy Richards Accents Sear and Stew 3.5 L Slow Cooker (See my review).