Skinny Slow Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala // Crocktober 2014 Week #3

October 13, 2014 by Steph Powers 31 Comments

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This is the third week of Crocktober recipes for 2014. Recipes for this week are:
Skinny Slow Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala, Crock-Pot Sweet and Sour Chicken, Creamy Chops with Veggies, and Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie Soup.

Here’s Crocktober Week 1, Week 2, and Week 4

Welcome back to another week of Crocktober! Have you all been enjoying this month as much as I have? I’ve been loving the money-saving and time-saving advantages of using my slow cooker to make dinner each day, and my husband has been loving having a new recipe for dinner each night. In case you’re just tuning in, this month is Crocktober in the Powers household. We’ve been cooking 4 meals a week in our slow cooker and I plan to continue for the rest of the month. Each Monday I will be posting 4 recipes along with a complete grocery shopping list.

This week I’ve created a lightened up recipe for Slow Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala to share with you. If you’ve ever made (or considered making) tikka masala you’ve probably looked at some crazy complicated recipe and then picked up a jar of pre-made sauce off the shelf instead. Well, I’m here to tell you that it can be super easy! The hardest part of this recipe is dicing the chicken and stirring. 🙂 The recipe is down at the bottom of the post along with this week’s Crocktober meal plan and shopping list.

I’m writing this post a little later than I usually do because tonight was the season 5 premiere of the Walking Dead. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll know that we host a weekly Walking Dead dinner and watch party during the primetime tv season. It’s usually a pot luck of sorts and I make a main dish that we share before watching and discussing this week’s episode. I won’t share any spoilers, but holy cow was this week’s episode intense!! It was also a somewhat bittersweet night because 3 of our constant Walking Dead watchers have moved away and are no longer able to watch with us. I won’t name them here, but know that you’re each greatly missed! Anyone have ideas for Skyping people in to watch TV shows?

On to this week’s recipes:

Note: I’m only featuring 4 recipes per week because we have a leftover night once a week in our house, and we tend to make plans with friends on the weekends. If you have a large, hungry family or want to use your slow cooker every single day, feel free to double these recipes or add to these weekly meal plans.

I’ve listed each recipe’s ingredients directly below it and here is the
Printable Crocktober 2014 Week 3 Shopping List
Click the photos to get the recipes.

Recipe 1:

Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie Soup by The Gunny Sack

Ingredients

2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2 1/2 cups frozen, mixed vegetables
3 cups cubed potatoes
2 cans condensed cream of chicken soup plus 1 cup of water
Optional: 1/2 cup instant mashed potato flakes OR 2 tbsp cornstarch + 3 tbps cold water

Recipe 2:

Crock-Pot Sweet and Sour Chicken by Paris over at My Big Fat Happy Life

Ingredients:

3 chicken breasts, cut into 1 inch pieces
1/3 cup flour
salt and pepper to taste
vegetable oil
3/4 cup white sugar
4 Tablespoons ketchup
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1 Tablespoons soy sauce
1 teaspoons minced garlic
2 cups steamed rice for serving

Recipe 3:

Creamy (pork) Chops with Veggies by 2 Crochet Hooks
(I know it doesn’t look like much, but this recipe is incredibly delicious!)

Ingredients:

1 Pork Loin (or 6 boneless chops) sliced 3/4in. thick
2 cans cream of soup (any variety)
4 -6 red potatoes
Baby carrots – 2 cups or approx. 20ish
1/2 cup water
Spicy breader/breading mix
Salt/pepper/spices to taste

Recipe 4:
Skinny Slow Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala

I know it may look like a lot of ingredients, but I promise most of it is just spices you need to add together to get the authentic tikka masala taste. I found all of the spices for this recipe at my normal grocery store. The great thing about this recipe is that it’s easy to make vegetarian or vegan and it makes plenty of leftovers. Enjoy!