Crockpot Beef Curry with Rice

Crockpot Easy Beef Curry with Rice

Ingredients:
1lb. ground beef or turkey (can also use some cubed chicken, beef, or pork)
1 Tbsp. olive oil
1 medium onion, diced
1-2 garlic cloves, minced
2 cups cubed potatoes
2 cups frozen mixed vegetables
1 14oz. can crushed tomatoes
1/3 cup Ketchup
1 1/4 cup chicken broth or water
1/2 tsp. salt (optional)
1/4 tsp. black pepper
2 Tbsp. curry powder (use more or less depending on your level of spicyness)
1 Tbsp. Thai Premium Fish Sauce (optional but makes it taste even better)
1 can coconut milk (can leave this out but makes the curry tastes yummy)
2 cups uncooked white or brown rice cooked in 4 cups water or broth

Directions:
In a skillet heat oil on med. heat. Sauté onions and garlic until soft. Add in ground meat if you’re using that and cook until no longer pink. I added half of my curry seasoning to the meat right before it finished cooking. If you are using cubed meat just add it in raw to cook with everything else in crockpot. In a sprayed 5-6 qt. crock pot add potatoes, frozen vegetables, tomatoes, ketchup, and broth. Stir in meat mixture and the rest of the curry seasoning. Cook on LOW 7-8 hours. You'll want to stir in the Fish Sauce and Coconut Milk (if you're using them) 30 minutes before it's done. Before it finishes cooking cook your rice or use any rice you cooked ahead of time. I like using broth instead of water to cook my rice when I’m serving a savory dish like this. Just like when doing mashed potatoes the broth helps to give the rice more flavor. You can also stir in 2 Tbsp. of butter right before your rice finish cooking.

Once your curry is done serve it over a bed of rice in a plate or bowl and with Pita bread or Naan. Beware~ your house will smell yummy while this is cooking. Your family will keep coming to the kitchen wandering when dinner will be done   I used ground turkey this time and it tasted great! I like that you can swap things up with this recipe. Here's another one we tried...

Rice and Curry w/chicken

To make curry with chicken follow the same recipe above replacing the ground beef with some boneless chicken breasts or thighs cut into bite size cubes. We really liked the flavors especially using lemon curry to season the rice I made with it. Now I have to try making this with cubed boneless pork and some coconut rice too. YUM!!! :-)