My hubby doesn't like apples in non-desert food so I skipped that but I think raisins would be better than apples. Found the curry flavor very bland so tripled it and added a two dashes each of cinnamon, cumin and chili powder. Also substituted low fat coconut milk for the regular low fat milk, tasted more like curry and added a few carrots to the mix.
This recipe has a lot of potential when the changes that others mentioned are made and my rating is for the tweaked version. I doubled the curry powder and added 2 cloves of garlic mushrooms carrots cranberries salt pepper and the spices recommended by others apart from the extra chilli. I added a splash of soy sauce at the end too. It turned out beautifully. I think it would probably go better again (although would require a little more work) by frying up the spices onions garlic and chicken before popping them in the slow cooker. I noted someone was concerned about too much liquid in the final result. The apples do release a lot as they cook so I decided to eliminate the milk which can separate in slow cooking by adding a 50g sachet of powdered coconut milk to the stock which I made up with a full teaspoon of powder in a cup of boiling water. This was great.:-)
Followed recipe exactly. Really lacks flavor. Next time would motify with more seasonings like salt pepper garlic cloves and herbs. Mushrooms would also be a good addition.
Really good. I enjoyed this meal with the additions of carrots instead of celery cranraisins for color and tartness (put in just a few minutes before serving) and the additional spices of cumin cinnamon and chili powder that another reviewer recommended. Also for some texture I didn't add the apples at the beginning but rather about half way through. I also used yogurt instead of milk. I served it with baked potatoes. The one thing that I don't like is that there seems to be more liquid left over than one may expect - but it still tastes really good and has some really unique and different flavor combos.
Really liked this recipe however I added some extra quinoa and a touch of lemon juice. Served it with plain yogurt. Next time I may add some raisins too.
I tripled the curry and added garam marsala which I believ to be the wonder spice of eastern food. Delish!!!
Four stars after the modifications. I listened to other reviewers and doubled the spices/added cinnamon curry chili powder and garlic. I omitted the apples and replaced them with potatoes. I also doubled the grains. Very tasty end result!
SUGGESTIONS: Double all spices and add cinnamon cumin garlic and salt. Omit the apples and double the amount of quinoa. Add carrots. NEXT TIME: I will try adding coconut milk and craisins
Based on the other reviews I was already planning on greatly increasing the amount of curry. But when I started throwing things in the crock pot I realized that I was almost out of curry! So I used huge amounts of all of the spices listed on the curry container and was glad I did. I will agree that the apples seemed out of place and would use potatoes instead if I fixed this again and would also add raisins for extra flavor. I also added well over the amounts of carrots and celery and was glad for the color. Since the other reviews said that it was watery I used double the amount of grain which worked out well.
