Crockpot Spicy Thai Peanut Chicken (w/coconut milk)

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Chicken Panang Curry and while I would LOVE to eat it 1x a week, I have a budget I gotta stick to and some ChaLEAN Extreme results I gotta keep! And then it dawned on me, I have EVERYTHING I need in my cabinet right now to make my own spicy, peanut, coconut, chicken recipe. So alas.. here I am!

Did I mention it's CLEAN and lower in calories? Oh yeah!

You will need:

• 4 chicken breasts (then halve them if they are larger)
• 3tbsp of curry powder
• 1tbsp of ginger powder or minced ginger
• 2-3 garlic cloves
• 1 large onion chopped
• 1 cup of hot water
• 1 1/2 tsp of cayenne pepper
• dash of chili powder
• 3-5 **do you love peanut butter?** tbsp of all natural peanut butter or PB2 (85% less fat then regular peanut butter, comes in powdered form)
• 1/2c of crushed peanuts
• dash of Himalayan or sea salt
• 1 can of coconut milk
• 1tsp of cinnamon

You can either sauté and brown the garlic and onions before you combine all the ingredients or just throw it all in the crockpot on low for 4-5 hours. I threw it all together!

ADD (optional):

• 1 chopped zucchini
• 1 chopped yellow squash
• 2 chopped carrots
• 1 chopped bell pepper

either throw in the crockpot all together, or boil then add, which is what I did! 

Pour over bed of brown rice or quinoa, and you are done my friend!! 

** I would make this maybe 1x a month or so just to satisfy the craving, it is lower in calories but since there is so much peanut butter, eat with caution! You can eat a lot of "clean" and "organic" foods at a large quantity and have it backfire. So just be careful with consumption! =)


the pictures do NOT do it justice~ I really should invest in a camera besides my iPhone!