Thai Red Curry Inspired Recipe In A Slow Cooker

We usually make this Thai Red Curry inspired recipe in a pan on the hob, but it also tastes great when cooked low and slow in a slow cooker.

The chicken comes out perfectly tender, infused with the Thai red curry paste.

Read on to see how easy this slow cooker recipe is!

What You Need

Like most slow cooker you can be flexible with the measurements and make some substitutions according to what you have available.

For more concise ingredients and to print out this recipe card please scroll to the bottom of this post.

These are the ingredients that I used:

• Chicken – I have made this recipe with chicken breast and boneless thighs. I prefer using boneless thighs as I find they come out more tender in the slow cooker, but you can use either. I used around 500g of boneless thighs to serve 4 people.
• Coconut milk – I used a 400ml tin, you can use light or full fat.
• Thai Red Curry Paste – I used 4tbsp of Blue Dragon paste, you can use any paste, some are tastier than others!
• Onion & Garlic – I added 1 chopped onion and 4 cloves of crushed garlic
• Kaffir lime leaves – I didn’t have any lime leaves so I substitued with the juice of 1 lime
• 1 tsp ground ginger – or you could use 1 tbsp of fresh root ginger, grated
• Thai fish sauce – I added 1 tbsp
• Brown sugar – I added 1 tsp
• 1 chicken stock cube or pot
• 1 tbsp fresh coriander – optional, for garnish

Making It

As I prefer to keep my cooking as simple as possible, I like to keep the preparation work to a minimum! I add everything directly to the slow slow cooker and stir it around.

Or occassionally I will mix in the paste, fish sauce, sugar and coconut milk in a seperate bowl or jug and then pour it over the chicken and remaining ingredients directly to the slow cooker.

But mainly I don’t want the extra washing up 😉

Set the slow cooker off on low for 4 to 6 hours. Less if you are using chicken breasts, check on it after 4 hours.

At the end of the slow cooking time check the chicken is piping hot all the way through. The sauce might be a little thin, if it is and you want it thicker, you can leave the lid off with the slow cooker on high, or, transfer it to a saucepan and simmer it on the hob.

Serve the Thai Red curry over rice or with some naan bread on the side.

Enjoy this one and let me know what you think!

More Slow Cooker Chicken Recipes

Are you looking for more simple slow cooker chicken recipes? Check out some of these:

• Slow Cooker Chicken Curry
• Slow Cooker Pulled Chicken
• Slow Cooker Chicken Casserole
• Slow Cooker Garlic Chicken

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