Easy Crock Pot Indian Chicken Curry

Indian food has its own distinct favor for curry. This recipe will help to simplify the spices in Indian curry to make it much easier. The crock pot is another tool that makes this process even easier. Before attempting to make curry, make a small simple curry sauce first. Some other curry sauces use tomatoes for the sauce. For this recipe, I leave them out.

Ingredients:
1 lb. chicken thighs and breasts
1 large sweet potato or regular potato
2 carrots
1/2 onion chopped
Sauce ingredients:
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/8 tsp ground clove
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp curry powder
1/4 tsp ground garam masala
1/4 tsp cumin
1/4 to 1/2 tsp chili powder
2 garlic cloves
1 knob of ginger
2 tbs oil
Other ingredients:
1 cup chicken broth
1 can of 14.5 oz. coconut milk

1/4 cup cornstarch
Bunch of green onions and cilantro, chopped for garnish
Nan, bread, or cooked rice, noodles to serve with curry
 
Directions;
To make curry sauce:
Place ginger and garlic in a mini food processor and grind into a paste.

Heat oil in a saucepan, and sauté onions in 5 minutes. Add ginger and garlic paste and cook for 1 minute or until fragrant.

Add all the sauce ingredients and stirfry for another minute or until the kitchen has a spicy aroma smell.

 Add chicken broth and simmer for 5 minutes. This quick curry sauce can be made ahead of time. Increase the amount of spices to make a bigger batch and refrigerate until needed.
 

Peel potato and cut into 1 inch cubes.
Peel carrots and cut into 1 inch slices.
Cut chicken into 1 inch cubes.
Mix coconut milk with cornstarch.

In a crock pot, place potatoes, carrots, and chicken. Pour the curry sauce into the crock pot.

 

Turn crock pot to high and cook for 3 to 4 hours or to low for 6 to 8 hours. 

Check the doneness of chicken and the vegetables in the last hour of cooking and add the coconut milk/cornstarch mixture; Stir well. Season again at this point with more salt or soy sauce.

Continue to cook uncovered until the sauce has thickened.

Sprinkle with green onions and cilantro and serve.