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4th June 2019
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Slow-cooker tandoori beef masala

An easy, filling and tasty curry with tender slow-cooked beef and a rich sauce

Why slow-cooked?

The slow-cooker is fantastic for a curry- it gives plenty of time for the flavours of the spices to develop, and for meat like beef and lamb, it ensures that you have tender, fall apart meat with not a chewy bit in sight!

I also love the slow-cooker because it’s hands off cooking- this meal just takes about 7-8 minutes to do, including chopping and frying, then once it’s in the slow-cooker you can just leave it and get on with your day!

This slow-cooker tandoori beef masala makes a lovely satisfying curry. One of my favourite ways to do a curry sauce at the moment is to bulk out the sauce with extra lentils, and in this curry I have also used sweet potato which adds to a rich, thick and tasty sauce.

My slow-cooker is about 20 years old, but still in perfect working order- there are loads of great, and cost-effective options around, but if I were to get a new one I would probably go for something like this one, which has a ‘sear and stew’ function, to save having to do any cooking on the hob first: 

I like an ‘easy’ curry- as much as I’d very happily eat one cooked by someone else that is complex, I always prefer to keep my dishes as simple as I can. This is why in this one I have used a Tandoori curry powder mix rather than mixing up my own spices- it just makes it that little bit quicker to throw together.

What other healthy curry recipes are there?

If you love healthy, Slimming World friendly curries, why not have a look at some of the others on my blog! I love a chicken tikka masala (and I have 2 versions on the blog: Skinny chicken tikka masala and slow-cooker chicken tikka masala). A beef madras, A vegan mushroom, chickpea and lentil curry,  chicken katsu curry

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What equipment is helpful?

If I’m mixing up my spices, I use a mini chopper- if you don’t have one then I really recommend investing! They aren’t expensive to buy, and are so handy both for making curry pastes and other types of sauces and pestos. I have this one from Tefal, which I love:

I accompanied this curry with my sweet potato onion bhajis which are delicious, and oven-baked so they aren’t at all greasy!

healthy onion bhajis slimming world

 

Quick tips!:

Need to speed up the process of making this curry? You can use frozen pre-chopped onion, lazy garlic and ginger, and frozen (or fresh) pre-chopped sweet potato!

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My Recipe

Serves: 4
Syns: none
Healthy Extra:

Ingredients

  • 400g lean casserole beef
  • 2 small onions (or 1 large)
  • 1 tbsp mild Tandoori curry powder
  • 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped or crushed (or 1 tsp lazy garlic)
  • 1 thumb-sized piece of ginger, peeled and finely chopped (or 1 tsp lazy ginger)
  • 500ml water
  • 1 tin chopped tomatoes
  • 1 cup red lentils
  • 1 large sweet potato (peeled & chopped into small chunks)
  • 1 fresh green chilli, finely chopped
  • juice of 1 lime
  • fresh coriander
  • salt and pepper
  • low calorie cooking spray

Method

  1. Using a low calories cooking spray or spray oil, start to fry the beef and onion on the hob at a medium heat
  2. After a couple of minutes, add the garlic and ginger and fry for another minute
  3. Add in the tandoori curry powder and stir fry for another minute
  4. Add the mixture into the slow cooker, and add a cup of the water to the saucepan, and bring to the boil (just to lift off any bits stuck to the pan) and then add this into the slow-cooker
  5. Pour in the chopped tomatoes, add in the lentils and sweet potato, and then add in the rest of the water.
  6. Give everything a good stir and season with salt and pepper
  7. Slow cook for 5-6 hours on high, or 8-10 hours on low. Check half way to see if you need to add a little more liquid if it's getting too thick,
  8. At the end of cooking, stir through the fresh green chilli and lime juice
  9. Serve with chopped fresh coriander, rice and any other veg that you fancy!

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1 Reply to "Slow-cooker tandoori beef masala"

  • Sally 14th June 2019 (9:27 am)

    Sounds great – I’m always on the look out for new slow cooker recipes, especially ones with beef because it’s so much nice cooked slower.