Simple, Flavorful Recipes for Every Day
If you love pulled butter chicken sandwiches, this recipe is about to become your new obsession. Imagine everything you love about rich, creamy butter chicken — tender chicken thighs folded through a silky tomato-cashew gravy perfumed with garam masala and kasuri methi — but shredded pulled-pork style and piled high into soft toasted brioche buns, …
If you’ve ever wished a burger and a samosa had a delicious little baby, this chicken burger puffs recipe is exactly that. These Bombay-style party bites are flaky puff-pastry cups pressed into a muffin tin, filled with spiced chicken kheema (minced chicken cooked with onion, ginger-garlic, garam masala, and kasuri methi), topped with a slice …
Some dishes are just dinner. This doro wat chicken is a national treasure. In Ethiopia, doro wat — “doro” means chicken, “wat” (also spelled wot) means stew — is the national dish, the centerpiece of holidays, weddings, and Sunday family gatherings. Picture this: bone-in chicken braised until impossibly tender in a deep red-brown sauce built …
These tandoori chicken wings are everything you want in a game-day appetizer — shatteringly crisp skin, deep smoky char, and a tangy yogurt marinade perfumed with tandoori masala, Kashmiri chili, and garam masala. What makes this recipe different from every other tandoori wings recipe out there is the dry-brine crispiness method: an overnight salt rest …
Nothing beats biting into a properly made chicken tikka kebab — smoky, charred edges on the outside, impossibly juicy chicken inside, and that deep orange-red marinade with Kashmiri chili, mustard oil, and kasuri methi. First, the name confusion cleared up: “tikka” is the marinated chicken piece itself, and “kebab” means food cooked on skewers. So …
If you love a rich, silky curry but want something more elegant than your everyday korma, this awadhi chicken korma is the dish. Born in the royal kitchens of Lucknow — the old capital of the Awadh kingdom and home of India’s most refined dum cooking — this is the “shahi” (royal) white korma that …
If you think going low carb means giving up biryani, this cauliflower rice chicken biryani will change your mind. Unlike most keto biryani recipes that just stir chicken into plain cauliflower rice, this one uses a proper layered dum method: a rich, deeply spiced chicken masala on the bottom, fluffy saffron-tinted cauliflower rice on top, …
Walk through Park Street in Kolkata after sunset and the air smells of ghee, hot iron, and charred onions — and tucked between the old coffee houses, vendors are doing something brilliant: spreading beaten egg over a just-cooked paratha, flipping it, and rolling it around fiery chicken with pickled onions. These chicken kathi rolls are …
If you love Indian takeout but not the 45-minute wait (or the bill), this instant pot butter chicken is about to change your weeknight game. Murgh makhani — “murgh” means chicken and “makhani” means buttery — is the creamy tomato chicken curry that made Indian restaurants famous around the world, and this pressure cooker version …
“Shahi” means royal — and this instant pot shahi chicken korma earns the name. Born in the Mughlai kitchens of the imperial courts, where cooks turned simple chicken into a feast fit for emperors, shahi korma is defined by its luxurious base: a pale-gold gravy of ground cashews and coconut, scented with cardamom and sweetened …
