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Indian Slow Cooker Recipes

69 slow cooker recipes from the Indian tradition — translated for the cooker without losing the flavors that define them.

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About Indian slow cooker recipes

Indian curry in the slow cooker is one of the great unlocks of modern home cooking. Tough cuts of lamb and goat, dried legumes, ghee-fried whole spices, and tomato-onion bases all deepen over the long cook. Just remember to bloom your spices in fat first — that one extra ten-minute step is the difference between a flat curry and a great one.

This page collects all 69 Indian slow cooker recipes in the Slow Feast catalog. You can browse them all below, narrow by protein, or pick a cook-time window. Every recipe is engineered around the aromatics, spice profiles, and cooking techniques specific to Indian cooking — not generic slow-cooker formulas with a Indian label slapped on top.

Every Indian recipe in the catalog includes the dump-and-go method for weekday cooks, the freezer-meal preparation for batch work, full nutrition information referenced against USDA FoodData Central, and a cross-link to related cuisine and protein hubs. The catalog is updated monthly with new recipes from reader requests and our own kitchen testing.

Indian 4h · Low
Seafood · Stew · Low / 4 hours

Aromatic Sea Indian Stew

If your idea of a perfect weeknight is walking through the door to a kitchen that already smells like dinner, this Aromatic…

4.5 (334) 5 servings
Indian 8h · Low
Beef · Soup · Low / 8 hours

Coconut Beef Indian Soup

If your idea of a perfect weeknight is walking through the door to a kitchen that already smells like dinner, this Coconut…

4.6 (371) 7 servings
Indian 8h · Low
Vegetarian · Soup · Low / 8 hours

Coconut Cooked Indian Soup

If your idea of a perfect weeknight is walking through the door to a kitchen that already smells like dinner, this Coconut…

4.1 (212) 7 servings