You need this Easy Chicken Curry Recipe in your life! This healthy curry recipe is healthy, fresh and super tasty. Simple to make, freezes well and all of the family will love it.
One of my favourite ways of sticking to healthier options is to create versions of my favourite foods that are just a little lighter.
This Easy Chicken Curry recipe is one of those. It’s also a brilliant batch cook to stock up your freeze and save on takeaways.
You’ll love this Easy Chicken Curry recipe because:
✅ Simple, with a few tweaks to level up.
✅ Perfect for simple batch cooking.
✅ Easily adaptable.
FAQs about this Easy Chicken Curry
Can you freeze Chicken Curry?
Yes! This freezes so well. I often make a double batch, pack it up into containers like this (Glass Containers on Amazon).
What vegetables can you add to this curry recipe?
I often add spinach, chickpeas, mushrooms or cauliflower. All of these work really well and make this a more complete meal.
I love to serve this with my super simple 3 ingredient flatbreads.
Tips for making the Easy Chicken Curry recipe:
- Don’t worry if you don’t have time to marinade the chicken, but if you do? It makes a big difference and really improves the flavour.
- You can mix and match and try different curry pastes if you prefer. This basic method works well for lots of different flavours like Jalfrezi, or Rogan Josh.
Fancy some more family friendly curry recipes?
- Slow Cooker Chicken Curry – No browning, throw it all in and go.
- Lamb Keema Curry – A really tasty mince dish.
- Slow Cooker Beef Curry – Just 5 minutes prep!
Hope you enjoy this recipe. I’d love to know how you got on and what you thought of it if you make this recipe. Please rate the recipe using the ⭐️ below!
Also, if you fancy showing me a photo by tagging me on Instagram (@tamingtwins) I LOVE to see your creations and try and share as many of them as I can.
This post was originally published on April 09, 2015 and updated with new photos, tips and video on March 017, 2021.
Easy Chicken Curry
A delicious low fat Chicken Tikka Masala recipe, the healthy curry recipe you need in your life.
Ingredients
- 1 kg Boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 2cm pieces
- 200 g Tikka Masala curry paste
- 300 g Natural low fat yoghurt
- 1 Tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 Large onion finely chopped
- 800 g Can of premium chopped tomatoes 2 x 400g tins
- 150 ml Water
- 1 tbsp Honey
- 4 Tsp Lemon juice
Instructions
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In a large bowl mix the chicken, curry paste and the yoghurt. Cover and leave in the fridge to marinade over night or for at least 2 hours.
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Heat the oil in your saucepan over a medium heat for 2 minutes, add the onion and cook for 5 minutes.
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Add the chicken and cook for another 10 minutes. Try not to stir too much. Let it sit still and get crispy edges.
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Add the tomatoes, water, honey and lemon uice and cook for another 15 minutes.
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Serve with boiled rice.
I have owned an Actifry since they first came out and am now onto my third one – an Actifry Family. I swear by it and haven’t bought frozen potato products since we bought the Actifry all those years ago. I haven’t heard of the Actifry Express though, I’ll be investigating! That Tikka looks lush x
Oh my goodness this recipe looks AMAZING and the ActiFry sounds intriguing too – I like the idea of cooking with hot air. Yum!
I am really impressed by the number of things that you can make in an Actifry, when they first came out I thought they would be a fad, but they really have stood the test of time.
Lovey photos of a difficult subject too.
I actually made this in my Actifry the other day too. It was delicious. I seriously love that machine.
What a fab picture and recipe. I want to dig right in.
This looks delicious Sarah, nothing like curry from scratch. The Actifry looks intriguing too. Did I meet you at a Pinterest event with Tom Aiken? Is it just my imagination? You just look very familiar. That was a great night !
This looks so tasty. Thanks for sharing the recipe x x
This looks seriously tempting. Interested that it heats so high to seal the meat.
Sarah, I love Chicken Tikka Masala and think my own recipe is great, but this one looks really good, too. I see so many recipes that just don’t sound “right” and the photos don’t look appealing. This CTM looks good!
I have eaten way too much cake and chocolate too! Need to have a go at some low fat recipes like this x
This cuisine looks not only delicious but also beautiful. How long does it take to cook this dishes. Can you give more detail recipe. I would like to cook it for my family
Can this be made in a regular actifry? What about the turning arm thing? Sorry if I am being a bit slow !
I’d like to know this too. Paddle in or out? xx
Sarah, you say you have amended the recipe, but I cant find it
This recipe doesn’t make any sense, it says to add the yogurt with the chicken however later on it says to add both the chicken and the yogurt separately, so which is it?
Hi Hannah, so sorry! I’ve amended it now. You have eagle eyes, this is an old post an no one has ever pointed that out! Thank you.
So I’m confused. Just got my actifry. Do I just shove all the ingredients into the actifry and let it cook with the paddle to stir? Thanks
Yes, or sometimes you can take the paddle out it it’s things that would break up easily when being moved. Hope that helps!
Is it 311 calories with the rice?
So easy to make and tasted lovely! I don’t often made curries so now I’m hooked on them!
I made this in the slow cooker! Absolutely delicious!
How long can it be in fridge for before you got to throw it out
Hi Sara ,
Still a bit confused as to whether the yogurt and marinade get added to the sauce?
The chicken is already marinated in step 1 and in step 3 it clearly says to add the chicken (the chicken you have marinaded earlier). Hope that helps.