Once you have your garam masala, you are a few more ingredients, one slow cooker and about 8 hours away from tender, spicy chicken wonderfulness. It’s literally as simple as tossing the ingredients into the slow cooker, going about your busy day, and then coming home to an almost fully-finished tikka masala dinner. All you’ll have left to do is shred the chicken (and since it spent all day in the slow cooker it will be so tender it will pretty much fall apart on its own), stirring in a little cream and making some rice to serve it with. I made a quick topping of cucumber mixed with sour cream to go with it…that part is totally optional but really good!
So the next time you get a craving for chicken tikka masala in the middle of a crazy week, you can say Yes I Can! Because we all need some tikka masala on Tuesdays sometimes.
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thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you for this recipe! I totally NEED this recipe for a Tuesday night!!!
you are welcome welcome welcome! Hope you love it.
this was amazing- we made it again tonight and I can’t get over the flavor.
You always know you have a good one on your hands when you can’t stop making it.
This is perfect timing! Starting a new job tomorrow, and the last thing I want to do is worry about dinner.
Oh my goodness! Good luck and have fun tomorrow!!
I would be happy to have paneer tikka masala EVERY day…definitely one of my favorites. I wonder if I could get it to work in a slow cooker…hmmm.
You definitely, positively, absolutely could.
Hi!
This sounds amazing, and is indeed this Tuesday’s dinner. (Was going to be today’s, but 4yo birthday boy requested hotdogs…who am I to argue?! But. Do you brown the chicken first? I’m always unsure about browning meat or not prior to putting it in the slow cooker. Thanks!
You don’t have to brown the chicken for this particular recipe, which makes it even MORE easy! And who could argue with hot dogs for a birthday?
I love Tikka Masala and make the Cook’s Illustrated version. LOVE the idea of this slow cooker one. It sounds fabulous.
It’s the best of both worlds – great tikka masala AND all the easiness of the slow cooker…how great is that?
Thanks! Can’t wait for dinner!
My pleasure – hope you love it!
Just wondering: Can I substitute yogurt for the heavy cream at the end to cut down on the calories?
Definitely. It will be a little thicker, so you might not have to use as much, and it will also have that little yogurt tang which might be an interesting taste variation!
I was wondering the same thing! I’m making this for this dinner this evening and plan on using greek 0% yogurt, so I will let you know how it turns out.
Yum!! Can’t wait!
Hurray – can’t wait to hear!
Making this in the crockpot as we type. =) Think I’m going to try evaporated milk instead of heavy whipping cream to cut down on the fat and calories. Can’t wait to try this!!
Great idea! Hope you loved it.