Get ready for a delicious family dinner that slow cooks all day while you are busy. Even my pickiest eater loves this slow cooker curry chicken legs recipe!
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Life certainly has changed over the past few weeks. People are learning how to cook, and families are having a lot more quality time together! Our family has been trying new recipes and the kids are getting braver about trying new foods.
If you are looking for an easy, satisfying family dinner idea, you will love this recipe! This recipe is naturally gluten free, dairy-free, and is considered paleo. Check out my delicious gluten free chicken recipes for more yummy dinner ideas. Here are 30 simple gluten free slow cooker recipes to try next!
Allergen Information:
This homemade chicken drumstick recipe is gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, soy-free, and nut-free.
This curry chicken dinner has a sweet flavor that will please even the pickiest palate. The star of this recipe is Foster Farms Air Chilled Chicken. If you are new to air chilling, it is a method of cooling the chicken during processing.
Air-chilled chicken tastes better because it doesn’t absorb a lot of water, unlike when water is chilled. Even better, it cooks faster!
Even though it feels like we have so much time on our hands lately, our days have been surprisingly busy. I am using my slow cooker a few times a week. Slow cooking is a great way to cook air-chilled chicken! Your dinner will be full of moist, flavorful chicken!
I love serving chicken legs because they are less expensive, and you can feed a hungry family. If you are looking for more budget ideas, I have lots of living gluten free on a budget tips.
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Are you ready to try this recipe? All you need is a few simple ingredients and the vegetables you have on hand. I used a lot of carrots and potatoes. You could also use winter squash, green beans, onions, and zucchini. Make a batch of my Gluten Free Naan to soak up the yummy curry sauce!
If you are looking for more great chicken recipes featuring Foster Farm’s chicken, you will want to make this Gluten Free Curried Chicken Pot Pie or this Grilled Chicken Salad.
Step-By-Step Photos and Directions:
Step 1: Grab your slow cooker and plug it in. If you are looking for more slow cooker chicken recipes, try this Gluten Free Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie recipe.
Step 2: Add in your coconut milk, seasonings, chicken, and vegetables. Use a spoon to cover the chicken in the curry sauce.
Step 3: Cover and set your slow cooker to cook on high for 4 hours or low for 6 hours.
What cuts of chicken are best to cook in a slow cooker?
You can use any cut of chicken, but I find bone-in air-chilled chicken works well. My kids LOVE drumsticks, so we used those in this recipe. Feel free to use chicken breasts, thighs, and chicken quarters.
If you love serving chicken as much as we do, don’t forget to check out all of my delicious gluten free chicken recipes!
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Slow Cooker Curry Chicken Legs
Ingredients
- 1 pound chicken legs
- 14 ounce can full-fat coconut milk
- ½ cup cut carrots
- ½ cup sweet potatoes
- ⅓ cup diced onion optional
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 1 tablespoon turmeric
Method
- Put 14 ounce can full-fat coconut milk into the slow cooker.
- Add 1 tablespoon curry powder, 1 tablespoon turmeric, and 1 teaspoon salt and stir.
- Place 1 pound chicken legs in the sauce and spread the sauce onto the chicken.
- Add 1/2 cup cut carrots, 1/2 cup sweet potatoes, and 1/3 cup diced onion.
- Cover and set to cook for 4 hours on high or 5-6 hours on low heat.
Nutrition
Notes
- You can use other cuts of chicken if you prefer.
- To cook this stovetop, add the ingredients to a pot and cook on medium for 30 minutes. Check doneness by using a meat thermometer. Insert into a drumstick and if the internal temperature is 165º F, the chicken is done.
- These chicken legs will keep up to 4 days in an air-tight container, or up to 4 months in the freezer.
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This is a GREAT base recipe. Yes, I added things, but what had me choosing this recipe over others was there were NO extra dishes to be washed. A knife, a peeler, a chopping board, a spoon to stir and the slow cooker itself: no other dishes. Yay! But I wanted the chicken to be flavoursome at the end, even if I didn’t brown it before putting it in the slow cooker. And it was!
I used 2kg of chicken drumsticks, and not the best quality ones, either: 2kg for $7. I doubled the curry powder, salt and turmeric of the recipe, added 1Tb cinnamon, used a 400g can of coconut cream and 290g can of coconut milk. I added about a teaspoon of dried chilli flakes, 2 cups of lamb bone broth, a whole chopped brown onion, 2 cloves fresh sliced garlic and about 2tsp of chopped fresh ginger. (We’ve all had colds/ flus in my house lately so I wanted to up the immune system boosting elements of the dish.) I filled each of the coconut cans with water, swirled it around and poured it in so I didn’t waste anything, and added 1 chicken stock cube and another tsp of salt. (That is 2+ cups of extra water in my slow cooker).
We had no sweet potatoes so I put in 5 small white potatoes, peeled, chopped in thirds. My 3 large carrots were peeled and sliced but chunky. I cooked it on high for 2 hours, then I added a chopped medium red capsicum and a small green capsicum as well as 2 bay leaves and about 150g of green beans (ends off, just chopped in half). My slow cooker was full to the brim. 2.5 more hours on high and it was ready to serve. The meat was just starting to fall off the bone, all the vegetables tender. It was delicious, probably the best thing I’ve ever cooked in the slow cooker. Those drumsticks were perfect: they really did NOT need pre-browning thanks to the excellent flavours of this recipe.
I served it with white rice, allowing 2 drumsticks per person, which means it made enough for 7 main course meals. I will DEFINITELY make this one again.
I love hearing how you changed up the recipe, I am looking forward to making this recipe again and trying some of your suggestions. I really appreciate your coming back to leave such a kind review.
I doubled the recipe for 1.3 kg of chicken legs and it worked well. Used mild curry powder which was a little bland so may add a red chilli next time.
I am so glad doubling the recipe worked well. Thank you!
if i wanted to use more chicken as i have a large family does that. mean i should add more coconut milk
Hi Konnar, You can definitely double the recipe. Adding more coconut milk and curry to taste is exactly what I would recommend.
This is a beautiful recipe we just added more curry,turmeric and bacon. we replaced carrots with peas and corn instead due to not having carrots. Thank you for this beautiful meal 😀
Thank you so much, Ralph. I am so glad you loved this and I love the idea of adding bacon!
This was a delicious meal and so easy to whip together! I loved the flavor of the curry and the drumsticks were fall off the bone. I ended up 1.5x the curry powder and turmeric.
I am so glad you tried this recipe and enjoyed it. I also often add more curry powder and turmeric.
Delicious!!! So easy to prepare and the whole family loved it.
You made my day. I am so glad everyone loved this chicken recipe.
I want to make this a potluck, can it last a few days in the fridge and then reheat? tysm
Hi Cindy, this should keep 3-4 days and reheated. In reheating, you may need to add more liquid.
Hi Sandi,
I made this recipe tonight and really enjoyed it. It was very easy to put together and, didn’t take long to cook and was do tasty. Thank you for sharing.
I am so glad you enjoyed the recipe Emma. If you have a moment, can you please leave it a star rating so others easily see?