When time is up, remove top and let butter chicken cool for 10-15 minutes before stirring in yogurt. STEP 3: Make rice according to package instructions. STEP 2: Cover with top and let cook in slow cooker for 3-4 hours on high or 6-8 hours on low (depends on your slow cooker). Add in cubed chicken, onion, garlic and ginger and stir to coat with coconut milk mixture. STEP 1: Add coconut milk, tomato paste, spices and coconut palm sugar (or brown sugar) to your slow cooker and whisk together until a thick paste is formed. The slow cooker allows the flavors to combine together – highly recommended! I recommend making this butter chicken in a slow cooker because not only can you set it and forget it but the flavors are truly mouth watering. How to Make Butter Chicken in the Slow Cooker Seasonings and spices – curry, cayenne pepper, garam masala, ginger, cardamom, bay leaf, salt and pepper to taste.You basically throw all the ingredients into a slow-cooker and let the juices flow! Come back a few hours later and you have dinner all set and ready to go. Cream is cream after all! But I must say, even if you won’t find my version in any Indian restaurant, my recipe for Butter Chicken is incredibly tasty. I’m not one for sacrificing flavour in order to “healthify” a dish but I am all for swapping in healthier ingredients even if it doesn’t taste entirely authentic. Traditional butter chicken is loaded with oil, cream and obviously butter. A good ole THM classic but with much butter pictures this time. So as I was browsing through the archives the other day to put together the week’s meal plan I realized it was time to reshoot the recipe. Needless to say the pictures were NOT great. I’d been working on mastering this recipe for weeks and it was finally ready to be shot. In the case of this slow cooker butter chicken recipe I remember trudging home in the snow and hoping the sun would stay up for just a few minutes longer so I could get some good pictures of the recipe with natural light. Then when I got home from work I’d have dinner ready for me. I could commute into the office (I was living in Toronto at the time) and set my slow cooker to low to cook all day. I was working on the blog before work, after work and on the weekends. I was also working full-time and the blog was my hobby. This easy slow cooker butter chicken is a set and forget it recipe with options for making in your Instant Pot or stove-top version too! The perfect combination of Indian spices and tangy flavors with a hint of butter to perfection.įun fact: this was one of the first recipes I ever posted! When I started this blog way back In 2013 I was obsessed with my slow cooker.
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