Healthy Slow Cooker Chicken Curry
This creamy Slow Cooker Chicken Curry recipe combines classic curry spices for authentic Indian flavor. It’s a healthy make-ahead recipe that only needs 20 minutes of meal prep. Assemble your meal in advance, and dinner will be ready when you are!
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 260kcal
Ingredients
- 1½ pounds chicken breasts and/or thighs boneless, skinless, cut into 3-inch pieces
- 1 small onion thinly sliced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 to 4 carrots sliced into thick rounds
- 4 teaspoons curry powder
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- ¾ teaspoon ground turmeric
- ½ head cauliflower cut into large florets
- ⅓ cup currants or raisins
- ¾ cup water
- 1¼ cups plain nonfat yogurt* see note
- ¼ cup chopped cilantro plus more for garnish
- Brown rice or quinoa optional
Instructions
- Add the chicken, sliced onion, garlic, and the carrots to a 6-quart slow cooker.
- Add the curry powder, cornstarch, salt, pepper, and turmeric to the slow cooker and toss with chicken mixture, coating the chicken and vegetables well.
- Add cauliflower, raisins and ¾ cup water; cover and cook 4 hours on high or 7 hours on low, gently stirring occasionally.
- Turn off the slow cooker. In a bowl, combine the yogurt and about 1 cup of the cooking liquid, from the slow cooker, with the cilantro and whisk to combine; add yogurt mixture to the slow cooker, stirring gently. Season with salt if desired.
- Serve curry with brown rice or quinoa if desired, with extra cilantro on top as garnish.
Notes
* If you can't find regular plain non-fat yogurt swap it for 1 cup non-fat plain Greek yogurt plus ¼ cup milk. If you choose to use just 1 ¼ cups Greek yogurt the sauce will be thicker.
• You can use full fat plain yogurt or Greek yogurt for a richer sauce. Note the nutrition values would change.
• Nutritional analysis has been run without brown rice.
• Serve this chicken curry over whole-grain brown rice or quinoa for added fiber.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 260kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 59mg | Sodium: 895mg | Potassium: 500mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 5272IU | Vitamin C: 6mg | Calcium: 142mg | Iron: 2mg
