doing a tikka masala in a slow cooker

[IamFartacus]

Please help
I have a new slow cooker, I'm a bit scared of it. Would like to do a tikka masala using some chicken thighs, tinned tomatoes, and some sharwood tikka masala paste. Can anyone give me any advice on how to go about doing this?
Thanks

Personally I'd chop up some onion and mayeb a bit of other veg if you have it too - give it a fry to get some colour on it - not too much - add a bit more garlic or chilli if you like more taste. Put the veg into the bottom of the cooker, then fry off the thighs in the same pan. Once they have a bit of colour (depends if you want skin on or off) - would add the paste and give it all a stir about so chicken is coated. Then add the tomatoes / a bit of stock or even yogurt (plain) if you have it. Warm it up a bit then bung it all into cooker. Should cook together nicely then.

SOunds great.

I would just throw in everything except the yoghurt (so onions, chicken, tomaotes, tikka paste, extra chilli or garlic if you like it) into the slow cooker, put it on and ignore it for ages. Then I would stir in plain yoghurt when I was nearly ready to eat it.

Everything will be in sauce so I wouldn't be bothered about the onions having colour. I am a lazy slow-cooker-er.

The Sharwoods pastes are lovely by the way :)

thanks, will have a go xx

I recommend a can of coconut milk too - delish, and makes it more child-friendly

I use pasatta (not keen on lumpy bits ) and coconut milk, along with a paste. If I wasn't using the slow cooker I would marrinade the chicken in a spoonful of paste mixed with yoghurt and shove it in the oven for 10-15 mins (that's the tikka bit) meanwhile cook onions in another couple of spoonfuls of paste, add the pasatta and coconut milk, then chuck the chicken in the sauce.