Country Captain for the Slow-Cooker
photo by Marcasite Queen
- Ready In:
- 5hrs 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
- 8 chicken thighs, excess fat trimmed, with bone and skin
- salt & pepper (I use Johnny's) or your favorite seasoning (I use Johnny's)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 onions, chopped coarse
- 1 green bell pepper, seeded and chopped coarse
- 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can chicken broth
- 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can diced tomatoes
- 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
- 12 ounces mango chutney, Laurel's Mango Chutney OR
- 2 (9 ounce) jars bottled chutney, such as Major Grey's Cutney, large pieces of mango snipped
- 6 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons Madras curry powder
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons paprika
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cayenne (to taste)
- shredded coconut (for garnish)
- toasted sliced almonds (for garnish)
directions
- Heat oil in large skillet, season chicken and brown on both sides, about 10 minutes. Remove chicken to platter, let cool a bit, remove and discard skin. Put chicken in crockpot.
- Pour off all but 1 Tablespoon fat and cook onions and bell pepper with about 1/2 teaspoon salt until somewhat tender, about 5 minutes.
- Add broth, tomatoes and tomato paste and scrape up browned bits and cook and stir until slightly thickened and smooth, only about 3 minutes.
- Remove from heat and add chutney, garlic, curry powder, thyme, paprika and cayenne.
- Pour this mixture over chicken in crockpot.
- Cover and cook on low 5 hours.
- Stir before serving over white rice.
- Add coconut and sliced almonds on top. This is necessary for the most authentic taste of Country Captain!
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Reviews
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I feel the cook time of 120 hours as posted above may be a bit excessive as I found I kept having to add liquid throughout the cooking process. Also, my slow cooker can only be programmed for up to 8 hours, so I found it a little inconvenient to have to reset it so often. After it was finished cooking, the chicken had taken on an almost powdery/pasty quality, so I can only give this recipe 4 stars. I will try adding more chicken broth next time.
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Wow! Where is the 10 star button when you need it! This was the hit of my family's tour of India. Everyone agreed it was the best dish at the table and we wanted to make it again - soon! Made it with Recipe #134246. Another wow. Sorry - I didn't realize the only picture I took of it was on the Thali plate, and it is gone. Thanks so much ChefPotPie!! Made for ZWT8 trip to India.
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I've made this chicken several times and it is terrific!!! I've made it exactly as is, I've made it with only 1 jar of chutney, I've made it with chicken breasts and every way its great!! The only thing I do different every time is that I cook it in a heavy pot on the stove rather than crockpot, it takes a couple hours, but is great for a Sunday meal! Thanks for the great recipe!
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Wow! What a treat! I separated my chicken quarters into legs and thighs, skipped the green peppers for DH, used 4 large tomatoes diced instead of canned tomatoes and paste and used regular curry powder in the absence of Madras curry powder. I also used homemade mango chutney and didn't have coconutand almonds on hand so skipped them. This dish was great. I will definitely make this again when I have ALL of the ingredients on hand. Reviewed for ZWT4. Thanks for a keeper!
Tweaks
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Wow! What a treat! I separated my chicken quarters into legs and thighs, skipped the green peppers for DH, used 4 large tomatoes diced instead of canned tomatoes and paste and used regular curry powder in the absence of Madras curry powder. I also used homemade mango chutney and didn't have coconutand almonds on hand so skipped them. This dish was great. I will definitely make this again when I have ALL of the ingredients on hand. Reviewed for ZWT4. Thanks for a keeper!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Chef PotPie
Southworth, Washington
One of the old time founding members of Recipezaar. I live in Port Orchard, Washington.
I LOVE to cook and bake nearly everything!
I HATE to see people join the site, have no published recipes, but rag on another cook in a review on a recipe they haven't even tried or didn't follow.
Oh, and I hate cilantro, too. :)