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Sweet Potato & Chicken Curry

July 23, 2014 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 3 Comments

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Slow Cooker Sweet Potato and Chicken Curry | 5DollarDinners.com

More chicken curry meals in the slow cooker. This meal is actually a regular part of our family rotation. The list of meals that we have repeatedly is very short, given that we are always trying new recipes for the website. But this one has been on the list for a few years and will remain. Mainly because everyone at the table polishes their plate. It’s rare for that to happen in a family with 4 little people who have distinct preferences. Perhaps this will be your family’s new regular meal?! Give it a try!

So I was chatting with my friend Christan about my Slow Cooker Maple Chicken recipe that I recently shared on $5 Dinners. She fixed it for her family and her girls (like my boys) couldn’t get enough.

We got to talking about recipes and slow cookers at our last MOPS meeting and she told me about a very similar recipe that she makes, but it’s curry and not maple. It’s almost identical swapping out the maple for coconut milk and curry powder. The rest of the ingredients and the cooking method are the same!

Couple notes and tips for you:

  1. My kids loved this just as much as they did the Maple Chicken. I just had to convince them that the yellow stuff (colored from the curry powder) was really chicken. They gobbled up their sweetened curried carrots and sweet potatoes without any prompting. (A mother’s dream for her child to eat their vegetables without coersion being involved.)
  2. If you open your coconut milk and it’s hard and white on the top, don’t fret. It’s natural for coconut milk to separate. Just spoon it all into the slow cooker and whisk it up until it’s creamy.
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Slow Cooker Sweet Potato & Chicken Curry

Your kids will gobble up their sweetened curried carrots and sweet potatoes without any prompting. At least mine did!
Prep Time10 minutes minutes
Cook Time8 hours hours
Servings - 4 servings

Ingredients 

  • 15 oz. can light coconut milk
  • 3 tsp curry powder
  • 4 small boneless, skinless chicken thighs
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 3 medium sweet potatoes peeled and cubed
  • 6 whole carrot sticks peeled and cut into pieces
  • 1 small onion chopped
  • Salt and pepper over the top

Instructions

  • Whisk together the coconut milk and curry powder in the base of the slow cooker.
  • Add the chicken thighs (or chicken breasts if you prefer), the sweet potatoes and carrots. Toss with the coconut milk.
  • Sprinkle a little salt and pepper over the top.
  • Set the slow cooker on low and cook for 8 hours.
  • Prepare fresh fruit for side dish.
  • Serve Slow Cooker Sweet Potato and Chicken Curry with carrots.

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Comments

  1. Melanie says

    July 24, 2014 at 6:19 am

    I LOVE this one! Consider substituting frozen peas for the carrots to balance the colors and because peas are delicious in curry!

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  2. Anne says

    January 27, 2015 at 9:15 am

    We also found this a little bland, even added more curry powder to the 2nd freezer pack and we both like curry flavoring. Possibly too many sweet potatoes and carrots?

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  1. Slow cooker favorites | Wessel Wonderland says:
    September 9, 2016 at 3:50 am

    […] Sweet potato coconut milk chicken curry: Lots of words in the title, but boy oh boy is this one good. I mean, how could you go wrong with sweet potatoes or curry or coconut milk? This recipe and chili might be the only two reasons I am excited for colder weather. […]

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