Easiest Way to Prepare Homemade Slow Cooker Butter Chicken

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, slow cooker butter chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken thigh meat cooks with tandoori masala and garam masala in a sauce of coconut milk and tomato in this tasty Indian classic. Restaurant-quality butter chicken made so easily in the crockpot. I'm sure some of you have already put away your But seeing as to how we moved to Chiberia and it's still the dead of winter here, my slow cooker has been on full blast, especially with this butter chicken. Of all of the slow cooker chicken recipes on my site, I love this recipe for Slow Cooker Butter Chicken possibly the most because it's easy to put together in the morning (or even the day before) and it turns out delicious every time.

Slow Cooker Butter Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Slow Cooker Butter Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have slow cooker butter chicken using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Slow Cooker Butter Chicken:

1. Get 3 - 4 chicken breasts cut into small pieces
2. Take 1 onion diced
3. Prepare 1 tbsp ginger paste
4. Take 1 tbsp garlic paste
5. Make ready 1 can tomatoes of
6. Get 1 1/2 tbsps tomato paste
7. Prepare 1 1/2 tsps garam masala
8. Make ready 1 tsp chili powder
9. Take 1 tsp cumin powder
10. Get 1/4 cup almonds
11. Take 1/3 cup yoghurt
12. Make ready 1 tbsp honey (optional)
13. Take 3 tbsps butter
14. Make ready 2 tbsps heavy cream
15. Take to taste Salt

Slow Cooker Butter Chicken with spices you already have in your cabinet with all the creamy deep flavors you'd expect from your favorite restaurant. Brown the chicken quickly on a high heat before cutting into chunks (don't worry about it cooking through, that is the slow cooker's job). I also took the advice to add a tbsp of cornstarch an hour before finish. I used Shan brand butter chicken seasoning pack instead of the spices mentioned in.

Steps to make Slow Cooker Butter Chicken:

1. We begin by making the marinade / sauce base that the chicken pieces will cook in. In a blender add the ginger paste, garlic paste, can of tomatoes, tomato paste, garam masala, chili powder, cumin powder, almonds and yogurt, and give it a good blitz.
2. Once everything is well combined, pour it over the diced chicken pieces. Mix well so the marinade coats the chicken pieces really well. Set this aside to marinate for 15mins or so.
3. Saute the diced onions in the melted butter, once it has softened up, add to the slow cooker.
4. Next pour the chicken pieces along with the marinade in the slow cooker. Add the 1tbsp of honey (this is optional) and season with salt.
5. Let this cook away in the slow cooker. Mine took somewhere between 3-4 hours.
6. When its cooked through and you are ready to serve, add the heavy cream and mix it all together.
7. Serve with some plain white rice or a pulao and/or naan bread.
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I also took the advice to add a tbsp of cornstarch an hour before finish. I used Shan brand butter chicken seasoning pack instead of the spices mentioned in. Use your slow cooker to make this version of the Indian classic. It's also much lower in fat than typical butter chicken recipes. Try this slow-cooker butter chicken curry for a guaranteed family favourite.

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