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Chicken recipes

Roasts, curries, braises and fried chicken from every kitchen on the site. 554 recipes on the site call for chicken.

Whole birds, breasts, thighs and wings behave differently, and each recipe names the cut it was written for. A probe thermometer takes the guessing out of when it is done, and many of the methods give the temperature to cook to.

Chicken is in 554 recipes from 63 cuisines, among them 426 dinners, 51 lunches, 40 appetisers and small plates and 19 quick meals. The cuisines that use it most here are American (165), Chinese (45), Indian (45) and Italian (37). Of these, 87 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Chicken and Avocado Wrap (10 min), Chicken Mayo Sandwich (10 min) and Roast Chicken Sandwich (10 min). For 163, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 353 easy, 182 medium and 19 hard.

As written, 216 are gluten-free and 256 dairy-free. Another 14 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.

All 5555 recipes

Chicken recipes — all 554 recipes

Chicken Tikka Masala
IndianEditor’s Pick
Prep
25m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Chicken Tikka Masala

Charred yogurt-marinated chicken folded into a silky, gently spiced tomato-cream sauce — the most ordered curry in…

3 hr · Medium
Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)
IndianFeatured
Prep
25m
Cook
40m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)

Delhi's murgh makhani: tandoori chicken finished in a sauce of tomatoes, butter and cream, balanced with a whisper…

5 hr · Medium
Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani
IndianEditor’s Pick
Prep
45m
Cook
60m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani

Hyderabadi dum biryani, where marinated chicken and part-cooked rice are layered raw and sealed to steam in their…

4.5 hr · Hard
Buffalo Wings
AmericanFeatured
Prep
15m
Cook
70m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Buffalo Wings

The Anchor Bar original, baked rather than fried using a baking powder trick that makes the skin crackle like it…

5.5 hr · Easy
Southern Fried Chicken
AmericanEditor’s Pick
Prep
30m
Cook
25m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Southern Fried Chicken

Buttermilk-brined chicken in a craggy, well-seasoned crust, fried in a cast-iron skillet. The double dredge and a…

5.5–25.5 hr · Medium
Korean Fried Chicken
KoreanEditor’s Pick
Prep
25m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Korean Fried Chicken

Double-fried until the crust is glassy and stays crisp under the sauce, then glazed in sticky sweet-hot gochujang…

70 min · Medium
Orange Chicken
ChineseFeatured
Prep
25m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Orange Chicken

The most ordered dish in American Chinese restaurants: craggy fried chicken tossed in a bright, sticky sauce built…

65 min · Medium
Chicken Shawarma
Middle EasternEditor’s Pick
Prep
20m
Cook
35m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Chicken Shawarma

All the flavour of a shawarma spit from an oven tray: thighs marinated in warm spices and yogurt, roasted hard, then…

5 hr · Easy
Chicken Katsu Curry
JapaneseFeatured
Prep
25m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Chicken Katsu Curry

Japan's favourite comfort food: a panko-crusted chicken cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with a thick, gently…

55 min · Medium
Chicken Karaage
JapaneseFeatured
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Chicken Karaage

Japan's definitive fried chicken: thigh meat marinated in soy, sake and ginger, dusted in potato starch and fried…

65 min · Easy
Jollof Rice
NigerianEditor’s Pick
Prep
20m
Cook
70m
Serves
6
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Side dish

Jollof Rice

Rice cooked in a reduced pepper and tomato base until the grains are stained deep orange and a smoky crust forms at…

90–105 min · Easy
Kung Pao Chicken
ChineseFeatured
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Kung Pao Chicken

Sichuan's most travelled dish, done properly: velveted chicken, blistered dried chillies, the numbing buzz of…

55 min · Medium
Chicken Noodle Soup
American
Prep
15m
Cook
95m
Serves
6
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Healthy

Chicken Noodle Soup

Built from a whole chicken so the broth carries real body, with the noodles cooked separately so they never turn to…

110 min · Easy
Paella Valenciana
SpanishEditor’s Pick
Prep
25m
Cook
45m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Paella Valenciana

The Valencian original, with chicken, rabbit and beans rather than seafood, cooked flat in a wide pan until a…

70 min · Medium
Chicken Parmigiana
ItalianFeatured
Prep
20m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Chicken Parmigiana

Shatteringly crisp breaded cutlets under a thin blanket of sauce and mozzarella, grilled just long enough to melt…

55 min · Medium
Thai Green Curry
ThaiFeatured
Prep
15m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Thai Green Curry

Cracking the coconut cream until the oil separates, then frying the paste in it, is the step that turns a flat curry…

40 min · Easy
Chicken Pot Pie
AmericanEditor’s Pick
Prep
30m
Cook
65m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Chicken Pot Pie

Chicken and vegetables in a velvety sauce under an all-butter pastry lid that shatters when you break through it…

2.5–3 hr+ · Medium
Chicken Enchiladas Rojas
Mexican
Prep
25m
Cook
35m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Chicken Enchiladas Rojas

Corn tortillas rolled around shredded chicken, blanketed in a red chilli sauce made from whole dried chillies rather…

80 min · Medium
Chicken Korma
Indian
Prep
20m
Cook
45m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Chicken Korma

The mildest of the great Mughlai curries and the most technically demanding: chicken in a pale, fragrant sauce built…

85 min · Medium
Buffalo Chicken Dip
AmericanFeatured
Prep
10m
Cook
25m
Serves
8
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Appetizers

Buffalo Chicken Dip

Shredded chicken, cream cheese, ranch and hot sauce baked until bubbling. Invented in Buffalo, adopted by every…

35 min · Easy
Chicken Satay
IndonesianFeatured
Prep
25m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Chicken Satay

Chicken marinated in turmeric and lemongrass, threaded onto skewers, grilled over charcoal, and served with a peanut…

9 hr · Easy
General Tso's Chicken
Chinese
Prep
25m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

General Tso's Chicken

The Chinese-American classic: crackling battered chicken in a sticky, tangy, faintly sweet sauce with a lick of…

60 min · Medium
Chicken Teriyaki
Japanese
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Quick Meals

Chicken Teriyaki

Real teriyaki is a technique, not a bottled sauce: chicken pan-fried until the skin crackles, then glazed in a…

25 min · Easy
Thai Red Curry
Thai
Prep
15m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Thai Red Curry

Chicken and vegetables in a coconut curry built by cracking the cream, frying the paste in the separated oil, and…

40 min · Easy
Enchiladas Verdes
Mexican
Prep
25m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Enchiladas Verdes

Corn tortillas dipped in a charred tomatillo salsa, rolled around shredded chicken and baked under more salsa, crema…

50 min · Easy
Chicken Souvlaki
Greek
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Chicken Souvlaki

Lemon, oregano and olive oil is all a good souvlaki marinade needs. Grill it hard so the edges char, then pile into…

3–5 hr · Easy
Chicken Adobo
FilipinoFeatured
Prep
15m
Cook
45m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Chicken Adobo

Chicken braised in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic and bay until the sauce reduces to a dark glaze. The Philippines'…

2 hr · Easy
Sesame Chicken
Chinese
Prep
25m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Sesame Chicken

Orange chicken's darker, nuttier sibling: the same shattering fried crust in a soy and honey glaze thickened with…

60 min · Medium
Tandoori Chicken
Indian
Prep
20m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Tandoori Chicken

A double marinade — first in lemon and salt, then in spiced yogurt — gets flavour deep into the meat before it hits…

7.5 hr · Easy
Bánh Mì
Vietnamese
Prep
25m
Cook
10m
Serves
4
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Lunch

Bánh Mì

A crackling baguette filled with pâté, mayonnaise, cold cuts or grilled pork, pickled carrot and daikon, cucumber…

2 hr · Easy
Jamaican Jerk Chicken
JamaicanFeatured
Prep
20m
Cook
45m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Jamaican Jerk Chicken

Chicken marinated overnight in scotch bonnet, allspice and thyme, then cooked slowly over indirect heat until the…

13–25 hr · Easy
Louisiana Jambalaya
American
Prep
20m
Cook
45m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Louisiana Jambalaya

Louisiana rice cooked in one pot with the holy trinity, andouille sausage, chicken and prawns. The Creole version…

65 min · Easy
Piri Piri Chicken
PortugueseFeatured
Prep
20m
Cook
45m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Piri Piri Chicken

Spatchcocked chicken marinated in a fiery bird's eye chilli, garlic and vinegar sauce, grilled hard and basted…

5 hr · Easy
Nasi Goreng
Indonesian
Prep
15m
Cook
12m
Serves
4
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Quick Meals

Nasi Goreng

Indonesian fried rice built on kecap manis and terasi, topped with a fried egg and prawn crackers. Every household…

27 min · Easy
Chicken Lo Mein
Chinese
Prep
15m
Cook
12m
Serves
4
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Quick Meals

Chicken Lo Mein

Soft egg noodles tossed rather than fried, coated in a glossy soy and oyster sauce with chicken and crisp…

27 min · Easy
Moroccan Chicken Tagine
MoroccanEditor’s Pick
Prep
25m
Cook
80m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Moroccan Chicken Tagine

Chicken braised with preserved lemon, olives and warm spices until it falls off the bone, in a sauce reduced to a…

105–115 min · Easy
Hainanese Chicken Rice
SingaporeanEditor’s Pick
Prep
25m
Cook
60m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Hainanese Chicken Rice

A whole chicken poached gently and plunged into ice, with rice cooked in the poaching stock and rendered chicken…

85 min · Medium
Chicken Chow Mein
Chinese
Prep
15m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Chicken Chow Mein

Springy egg noodles tossed with chicken and vegetables in a savoury brown sauce, with a few noodles crisped against…

45 min · Easy
Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken
Taiwanese
Prep
30m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken

Marinated chicken chunks coated in sweet potato starch, fried twice, and tossed with salt, white pepper and fried…

3 hr · Medium
Chicken and Waffles
American
Prep
30m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

Chicken and Waffles

Buttermilk-brined fried chicken on a yeasted waffle, with hot sauce and maple syrup poured over both. Sweet, salt…

17 hr · Medium
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
AmericanEditor’s Pick
Prep
25m
Cook
90m
Serves
8
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Dinner

Chicken and Sausage Gumbo

Everything in gumbo rests on the roux: flour and fat cooked patiently to the colour of milk chocolate, then built…

115 min · Medium
Oyakodon
Japanese
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
2
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Quick Meals

Oyakodon

Chicken and egg over rice — the name means "parent and child" — simmered together in a sweet-savoury dashi until the…

25 min · Easy
Chicken Kiev
Ukrainian
Prep
30m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Chicken Kiev

A chicken breast wrapped around a core of garlic and herb butter, breadcrumbed and fried so the butter is still…

4.5 hr · Medium
Shish Taouk
Lebanese
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Shish Taouk

Chicken cubes marinated in yoghurt, garlic and lemon with a little tomato purée, grilled hard and served with toum…

8.5 hr · Easy
Pad See Ew
Thai
Prep
15m
Cook
12m
Serves
2
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Quick Meals

Pad See Ew

Wide rice noodles charred in a screaming wok with dark soy, egg and Chinese broccoli. The dish is defined by wok…

27 min · Easy
Khao Soi
ThaiFeatured
Prep
20m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Khao Soi

Northern Thailand's coconut curry noodle soup, with soft egg noodles beneath and a nest of crisp fried ones on top…

55 min · Medium
Chicken Paprikash
Hungarian
Prep
15m
Cook
65m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Chicken Paprikash

Chicken braised in a sauce of onions and a great deal of sweet Hungarian paprika, finished with soured cream and…

80–85 min · Easy
Arepas
Venezuelan
Prep
15m
Cook
20m
Serves
6
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Bread

Arepas

Griddled corn cakes made from pre-cooked maize flour, split open and stuffed. Venezuelans and Colombians both claim…

35 min · Easy

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