Chicken Tikka Masala
Charred yogurt-marinated chicken folded into a silky, gently spiced tomato-cream sauce — the most ordered curry in…
Roasts, curries, braises and fried chicken from every kitchen on the site. 140 recipes on the site call for chicken.
Charred yogurt-marinated chicken folded into a silky, gently spiced tomato-cream sauce — the most ordered curry in…
Delhi's murgh makhani: tandoori chicken finished in a sauce of tomatoes, butter and cream, balanced with a whisper…
Hyderabadi dum biryani, where marinated chicken and part-cooked rice are layered raw and sealed to steam in their…
A breaded cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with Japanese curry sauce — thicker, sweeter and darker than an Indian…
The Anchor Bar original, baked rather than fried using a baking powder trick that makes the skin crackle like it…
Buttermilk-brined chicken in a craggy, well-seasoned crust, fried in a cast-iron skillet. The double dredge and a…
Double-fried until the crust is glassy and stays crisp under the sauce, then glazed in sticky sweet-hot gochujang…
The most ordered dish in American Chinese restaurants: craggy fried chicken tossed in a bright, sticky sauce built…
All the flavour of a shawarma spit from an oven tray: thighs marinated in warm spices and yogurt, roasted hard, then…
Japan's favourite comfort food: a panko-crusted chicken cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with a thick, gently…
Japan's definitive fried chicken: thigh meat marinated in soy, sake and ginger, dusted in potato starch and fried…
Rice cooked in a reduced pepper and tomato base until the grains are stained deep orange and a smoky crust forms at…
Sichuan's most travelled dish, done properly: velveted chicken, blistered dried chillies, the numbing buzz of…
Built from a whole chicken so the broth carries real body, with the noodles cooked separately so they never turn to…
The Valencian original, with chicken, rabbit and beans rather than seafood, cooked flat in a wide pan until a…
Shatteringly crisp breaded cutlets under a thin blanket of sauce and mozzarella, grilled just long enough to melt…
Cracking the coconut cream until the oil separates, then frying the paste in it, is the step that turns a flat curry…
Chicken and vegetables in a velvety sauce under an all-butter pastry lid that shatters when you break through it…
Corn tortillas rolled around shredded chicken, blanketed in a red chilli sauce made from whole dried chillies rather…
The mildest of the great Mughlai curries and the most technically demanding: chicken in a pale, fragrant sauce built…
Shredded chicken, cream cheese, ranch and hot sauce baked until bubbling. Invented in Buffalo, adopted by every…
Chicken marinated in turmeric and lemongrass, threaded onto skewers, grilled over charcoal, and served with a peanut…
The Chinese-American classic: crackling battered chicken in a sticky, tangy, faintly sweet sauce with a lick of…
Real teriyaki is a technique, not a bottled sauce: chicken pan-fried until the skin crackles, then glazed in a…
Chicken and vegetables in a coconut curry built by cracking the cream, frying the paste in the separated oil, and…
Corn tortillas dipped in a charred tomatillo salsa, rolled around shredded chicken and baked under more salsa, crema…
Lemon, oregano and olive oil is all a good souvlaki marinade needs. Grill it hard so the edges char, then pile into…
Chicken braised in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic and bay until the sauce reduces to a dark glaze. The Philippines'…
Orange chicken's darker, nuttier sibling: the same shattering fried crust in a soy and honey glaze thickened with…
A double marinade — first in lemon and salt, then in spiced yogurt — gets flavour deep into the meat before it hits…
A crackling baguette filled with pâté, mayonnaise, cold cuts or grilled pork, pickled carrot and daikon, cucumber…
Chicken marinated overnight in scotch bonnet, allspice and thyme, then cooked slowly over indirect heat until the…
Louisiana rice cooked in one pot with the holy trinity, andouille sausage, chicken and prawns. The Creole version…
Spatchcocked chicken marinated in a fiery bird's eye chilli, garlic and vinegar sauce, grilled hard and basted…
Indonesian fried rice built on kecap manis and terasi, topped with a fried egg and prawn crackers. Every household…
Soft egg noodles tossed rather than fried, coated in a glossy soy and oyster sauce with chicken and crisp…
Chicken braised with preserved lemon, olives and warm spices until it falls off the bone, in a sauce reduced to a…
A whole chicken poached gently and plunged into ice, with rice cooked in the poaching stock and rendered chicken…
Springy egg noodles tossed with chicken and vegetables in a savoury brown sauce, with a few noodles crisped against…
Chicken cooked slowly with preserved lemon, green olives, ginger and saffron until the sauce reduces to a thick…
Marinated chicken chunks coated in sweet potato starch, fried twice, and tossed with salt, white pepper and fried…
Buttermilk-brined fried chicken on a yeasted waffle, with hot sauce and maple syrup poured over both. Sweet, salt…
Everything in gumbo rests on the roux: flour and fat cooked patiently to the colour of milk chocolate, then built…
Chicken and egg over rice — the name means "parent and child" — simmered together in a sweet-savoury dashi until the…
A chicken breast wrapped around a core of garlic and herb butter, breadcrumbed and fried so the butter is still…
Chicken cubes marinated in yoghurt, garlic and lemon with a little tomato purée, grilled hard and served with toum…
Wide rice noodles charred in a screaming wok with dark soy, egg and Chinese broccoli. The dish is defined by wok…
Northern Thailand's coconut curry noodle soup, with soft egg noodles beneath and a nest of crisp fried ones on top…
Chicken braised in a sauce of onions and a great deal of sweet Hungarian paprika, finished with soured cream and…
Griddled corn cakes made from pre-cooked maize flour, split open and stuffed. Venezuelans and Colombians both claim…
A composed salad from the Brown Derby in Hollywood: neat rows of chicken, bacon, avocado, egg, tomato and blue…
Chicken braised in red wine with lardons, mushrooms and pearl onions — the rustic cousin of bourguignon, and faster…
The gentler sibling of tom yum: coconut milk smooths the sourness into something creamy and fragrant, with chicken…
Shredded chicken and cream cheese wrapped in a dough made from chicken stock and flour, shaped like a teardrop…
Chicken breast beaten thin, breaded and fried in butter until the crust is deep gold. Milanese in method, and the…
A Japanese diner classic: ketchup-seasoned chicken rice wrapped in a thin omelette, either folded neatly or, in the…
Minced chicken tossed with toasted rice powder, lime, fish sauce and a great deal of mint and shallot. Isaan…
Chicken and cabbage stir-fried at the table in a gochujang marinade on a huge flat pan, with rice cakes and sweet…
Ethiopia's national dish: chicken stewed in an enormous quantity of onions cooked down without any fat, then built…
Charcoal-grilled chicken skewers lacquered in a tare that gets richer every time you use it. The Japanese izakaya…
Chicken marinated overnight in saffron, lemon and grated onion, grilled over coals and basted with saffron butter as…
Godamba roti chopped on a hot griddle with vegetables, egg and curry, in a rhythm of metal blades that you can hear…
Wheat noodles tossed with pork, prawns, chicken and vegetables in a soy and oyster sauce broth the noodles absorb as…
Crisp fried tortillas topped with chicken tinga — shredded chicken in a smoky chipotle and tomato sauce — with…
A silky Greek chicken and rice soup thickened with an egg and lemon emulsion rather than cream. Sharp, restorative…
Rice, meat and fried vegetables layered in a pot and flipped out whole at the table so it stands as a cake. The name…
Shredded chicken in a creamy, mildly spicy sauce thickened with bread and walnuts, coloured yellow by ají amarillo…
Chicken or duck braised in a sauce of ground walnuts and pomegranate molasses that cooks down over hours into…
Indonesian turmeric chicken soup with a fragrant spice paste, served over noodles and rice with sambal, fried…
A whole small chicken stuffed with glutinous rice, ginseng, jujube and garlic, simmered until the broth turns milky…
A thin, fiercely hot broth built on a blend of West African spices, with goat, fish or chicken and almost nothing…
Palestinian roast chicken on flatbread soaked in olive oil, with a great quantity of sumac-stained onions and…
Bogotá chicken and potato soup, thickened by three kinds of potato breaking down at different rates, with guascas…
Cold layers of yellow potato mashed with lime and ají amarillo, packed around a chicken or crab filling and turned…
A savoury egg custard steamed in a lidded cup, holding prawn, chicken and ginkgo nuts suspended in a set so delicate…
Chicken fried and then simmered in a red chilli and tomato gravy sweetened with a little sugar and finished with…
Puebla's legendary sauce: more than twenty ingredients — chillies, nuts, seeds, spices, dried fruit and chocolate —…
Jute leaves cooked to a green, silky stew with garlic and coriander fried in ghee and stirred in at the last second…
A beef and chicken filling under a thick layer of ground fresh corn and basil, baked in earthenware and sprinkled…
Wheat and meat cooked together for hours and then beaten into a smooth, savoury porridge, finished with ghee and…
Chicken breast cooked hard in a dry pan, sliced over rice with edamame and a lemon-tahini dressing, built to put a…
Chicken thigh marinated in yoghurt, lemon and oregano, then grilled hard until the edges char. The yoghurt does the…
Caesar without the croutons: chicken breast seared hard, tossed in an anchovy and Parmesan dressing and served in…
Cauliflower blitzed to rice grains and fried hard with chicken thigh, egg and spring onion — the wok dish without…
Seared chicken over fettuccine in a sauce built from butter, cream and a great deal of real Parmigiano, emulsified…
The answer to the driest thing in the fridge: a brief brine, a hot oven and a thermometer. Twenty minutes, and the…
Shatteringly crisp wings with no deep-frying and no batter. Baking powder on dry skin is the whole trick, and it…
Chicken thighs seared hard and glazed in a four-ingredient sauce that reduces to a lacquer in the time it takes to…
Floured cutlets, a pan full of browned mushrooms and a sauce reduced from dry Marsala and stock until it is glossy…
Sharp, bright and finished in twenty minutes: thin cutlets in a lemon and caper sauce that gets its body from butter…
A properly built quesadilla: cheese against the tortilla on both sides so it welds shut, filling in a thin layer…
Bone-in thighs roasted hard under a rub of lemon zest and coarsely cracked pepper, with the juice going on only…
A brothy Mexican soup with real depth: dried chillies toasted and blended into the base, chicken poached in it and…
Three slices of toast, two fillings, four cocktail sticks. The architecture is the recipe: bacon and chicken get…
The Salvadoran chicken sandwich: chicken braised in a relajo of toasted spices, pulled, and piled into a crusty roll…
Chicken cooked with no liquid at all beyond what the tomatoes and onions give up, then finished with a great deal of…
Chicken poached with whole spices, its broth used for the rice, the meat pulled and piled back on top with toasted…
Chicken and potatoes roasted hard in lemon, garlic and olive oil until the edges blacken. Four ingredients doing all…
Green wheat, harvested young and roasted over fire, cooked like a pilaf under poached chicken. It tastes of smoke…
Chicken spatchcocked and grilled under a cumin, garlic and lemon paste until the skin blackens in patches. The…
Nothing like a Moroccan tagine: this is a baked omelette thick with chicken, cheese and parsley, cut into squares…
Chicken braised with peppers, tomato and piment d'Espelette from the Basque country. The peppers are cooked down to…
A whole chicken stuffed and poached with vegetables, the broth served first and the meat after. Henri IV wanted…
Roast chicken with butter under the skin and lemon inside, started on its side. The French method turns the bird…
Chicken breast wrapped around ham and cheese, breaded and fried. Swiss in origin, French in execution, and the seal…
Puff pastry cases filled with chicken, sweetbreads and mushrooms in a cream sauce. Named for Queen Marie…
Tiny filled pasta in clear capon broth, and nothing else. Emilia at Christmas, and the broth matters as much as the…
Several cuts of meat boiled in the same broth and carved at the table with a green sauce. Piedmont and Emilia both…
Anglo-Indian curried soup, invented in Madras for officers who wanted a soup course and were given pepper water…
Poached chicken and slow-cooked leeks under a proper pastry lid, in a sauce made from the poaching liquid. A pie…
Cold chicken in a curried, apricot-sweetened mayonnaise, invented for the 1953 coronation lunch. Ruined by every…
Sticky rice packed around chicken, sausage and mushroom in a lotus leaf and steamed until the leaf perfumes the…
Chicken feet deep-fried, soaked until they puff, then braised in black bean and steamed. Three stages, two days, and…
Poached chicken torn into shreds under a sesame and chilli sauce. Named for the stick used to beat the meat loose…
Poached chicken steeped for a day in Shaoxing wine and its own jellied stock, then sliced cold. Shanghai in summer…
Fried chicken pieces buried in a wok of dried chillies and Sichuan pepper, from which you hunt out the chicken…
A whole chicken wrapped in lotus leaves, sealed in clay and baked for three hours, then broken open at the table…
A whole chicken poached below a simmer and plunged into ice, served cold with a ginger and scallion oil. The most…
A whole chicken poached in a dark soy master stock until the skin is mahogany and glossy. The stock is kept and…
Chicken cooked down in equal parts sesame oil, soy sauce and rice wine until the sauce is a glaze, with a great…
A chicken buried in three kilos of hot coarse salt and baked until it is cooked through by conducted heat alone…
Chicken, potatoes and peppers stewed with beer and chilli in one enormous plate, with wide hand-pulled noodles slid…
Rice cooked in a clay pot with sausage and chicken laid on top, until a crisp golden crust forms on the base that…
Small pieces of chicken in a red, curry-leaf-scented coating, fried hard and tossed with yoghurt and chilli. A…
Chicken wings frenched into a lollipop, battered red and fried. Bar food across India, and the reason wing drumettes…
Chicken in a black, coconut-and-pepper masala from the Chettinad country of Tamil Nadu. One of the hottest curries…
A clear chicken broth seasoned with a soy tare, with chashu pork, a marinated egg and thin curled noodles. The…
A thick, sweet red curry finished with kaffir lime and crushed peanuts. Drier than the other Thai curries, and richer.
The mildest of the Thai curries, yellow with turmeric and thick with potato. The one to cook for people who say they…
Chicken pho: a clear broth of charred ginger and onion with poached chicken and flat rice noodles. Lighter than the…
Marinated chicken and peppers cooked hard in a dry pan and brought to the table still spitting. The sizzle is the…
Poached or leftover chicken with grapes, celery and toasted pecans in a light mayonnaise dressing. Fifteen minutes…
Chicken pieces fried hard with a great deal of garlic and finished with sherry. Fifty minutes and five ingredients…
Griddled chicken, cos lettuce and parmesan rolled in a warm tortilla with a proper anchovy dressing. Under half an…
Chicken thighs, potatoes, lemon and oregano in one tin for forty-five minutes. The tin does the work.
Chicken cooked hard in a wok with tomato, ginger and green chilli, and almost nothing else. No onion, no cream, no…
Chicken marinated in calamansi, lemongrass and vinegar, then grilled under a constant basting of annatto oil.
Chicken simmered in turmeric and lemongrass, then fried, with the spiced poaching liquid fried alongside into crisp…
Green beans and pork stir-fried in red curry paste with no coconut milk at all. A dry curry, and thirty minutes.
Poached chicken torn into shreds with cabbage, herbs and a sharp fish sauce dressing. Forty minutes, mostly cooling.