Slow cooker vegan tikka masala
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Slow cooker vegan tikka masala

15 min
6 Base Servings
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If you love Indian food, then you should try this tasty vegan tikka masala. Easy to prepare and cooked with a slow cooker, served as a healthy lunch with optional rice of your choice.

Bring vibrant Indian restaurant aromatics directly to your dining room table with this warming Slow Cooker Vegan Tikka Masala. Featuring chickpeas, tender sweet potatoes, and green peas swimming in a velvety coconut ginger tomato curry, it is wholesome plant-based dining at its finest.

Why This Recipe Works

Simmering robust aromatics like freshly grated ginger, minced garlic, garam masala, turmeric, and cumin over gentle steady heat softens coarse fiber roots while enriching coconut milk with complex spiced layers. Chickpeas absorb the golden curry essence completely without losing structural integrity.

Chef's Pro-Tips

  • Toast your spices first: For an extra layer of culinary richness, sauté your dry masala spice powders in coconut oil in a warm skillet for 60 seconds before transfering into the crockpot bowl!
  • Serve with garnishes: Garnish generously with vibrant cilantro leaves, squeezes of lime juice, and warm warm garlic naan bread.

Ingredients

6 Servings
  • 800 gramscanned beans (any or a mix of butter beans, chickpeas, red kidney beans, black beans, etc.)
  • 400 gramstomato purée
  • 1 cupplant based milk (coconut or almond)
  • 2 tablespoonsolive oil
  • 1 tablespoongarlic powder
  • 1 tablespoononion powder
  • 1 tablespoongaram masala
  • 2 teaspoonssmoked paprika
  • 2 teaspoonsground cumin
  • 1 teaspoonground coriander
  • 1 teaspoonground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoonground turmeric
  • 1 teaspoonsalt
  • 2 teaspoonground black pepper
  • 1 bay leaf

Instructions

  1. Drain and rinse beans in cold water.
  2. Place the beans in the base of the slow cooker.
  3. Pour the tomato purée and vegan milk into the slow cooker.
  4. Add in all the rest ingredients apart from the bay leaf.
  5. Mix altogether.
  6. Add bay leaf to the top.
  7. Cook on high for 4 hours and 30 minutes.
  8. Serve tikka masala with our perfectly cooked brown rice or with any other rice of your choice.

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