A light and healthy curry-influenced dish from Savannah, Georgia, made easy as can be in the slow cooker.
Country Captain Chicken in the Slow Cooker
I love the variety and vivaciousness of so much Southern food. I think it sometimes gets unfairly stereotyped as being all about biscuits and butter and deep fried everything (not that there’s anything wrong with that if it’s you bag), but there are so many other varieties of flavorful Southern dishes from all different regions, with influences that reach all over the globe.
This particular recipe is reputed to have originated in Savannah, which in colonial times was a major port, by way of Mumbai. You can really taste that influence here, with the curry and the currants, and yet it’s a fabulously simple form in this rendition. It happens to be paleo all on its own or with cauliflower rice, and is gluten and dairy free – not that you’d even notice. …