Your Slow Cooker Is The Secret To The Easiest Butter Chicken Ever
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By JESSICA SANTINA
In case you have been avoiding making Indian food in your own home, there is some good news: You can use your slow cooker to make an easy, delicious butter chicken.
Butter chicken consists of bite-sized pieces of chicken braised in a thick, buttery tomato sauce. A slow cooker is ideal for it, as the low-and-slow cooking keeps chicken moist.
Chicken thighs, in particular, can stand up to slow cooking without becoming tough and rubbery. This method also helps the spices meld and infuse
into the meat over several hours.
While some recipes call for searing the chicken with the spices or the full sauce in a skillet before adding them to the cooker, others suggest cooking only onions in the skillet.
Still others call for making the sauce in a separate bowl and then placing all ingredients, including the raw chicken pieces, into the slow cooker.
Cooking times can vary, but, generally, cook the meat with the sauce on the cooker's low setting for three to six hours, or on high setting for 90 minutes to three hours.
