Simple, Flavorful Recipes for Every Day
If Thai food ever felt intimidating to cook at home, this Thai yellow chicken curry recipe is the perfect place to start. Of all the classic Thai curries, yellow curry is the mildest and creamiest — tender chicken thighs and chunks of potato simmered in a golden, coconut-rich sauce perfumed with lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, …
If you’ve only ever tasted the mild, white Kerala chicken stew, this Kerala chicken curry will be a revelation. Known in God’s Own Country as nadan kozhi curry — “nadan” means homestyle and “kozhi” means chicken — it’s the bold, fiery cousin of the stew: chicken simmered in a deep red-brown gravy built on dry-roasted …
Few dishes capture Italian-American comfort like this chicken marsala recipe. Tender golden chicken cutlets are pan-fried until crisp-edged, then smothered in a glossy, savory marsala wine sauce loaded with browned mushrooms, soft shallots, and a swirl of butter. It’s the restaurant classic you love — ready in just 40 minutes — and I’ll also show …
Bright, buttery, and ready in half an hour — this chicken piccata is the Italian-American restaurant classic made weeknight-easy. Thin, golden chicken cutlets are pan-seared until crisp, then finished in a silky lemon caper chicken sauce of butter, white wine, and chicken broth, showered with fresh parsley. It’s the kind of dinner that tastes like …
If you’re looking for a gentler side of Indian cooking, this Kerala chicken stew is it. Known locally as kozhi ishtu, it’s a mild, creamy coconut-milk stew from Kerala where tender chicken pieces simmer with potatoes, carrots and whole spices in fragrant coconut milk — no red chili, no heavy masala, just delicate flavor. It’s …
If you’ve ever ordered spinach chicken curry at an Indian restaurant and wondered how they get that gorgeous, silky green gravy, this chicken saag recipe is your answer. Saag is a North Indian curry made from slow-cooked leafy greens, and when you fold in tender pieces of spiced chicken, you get one of the healthiest …
If there’s one curry that captures the royal Mughlai kitchens of old Kolkata, it’s this chicken rezala. Known as murgh rezala in Bengal, this creamy white chicken curry is made by slow-cooking tender chicken in a luxurious gravy of cashew paste and poppy seeds, scented with white pepper, saffron, and a whisper of kewra water. …
There’s nothing like biting into a hot chicken samosa and hearing that crackle — a shatteringly crisp, flaky shell giving way to juicy, warmly spiced chicken keema. These golden triangles are the star of every party platter, Ramadan iftar table, and rainy-day chai session, and making them at home is easier than most people think. …
Heat warning first: this chicken kolhapuri recipe is genuinely, gloriously hot. Kolhapuri masala — the fiery spice blend this Maharashtrian chicken curry is named for — is built on dried red chilies and black pepper, and restaurants and dhabas in Kolhapur serve it as one of the spiciest chicken curries in India. If you love …
Fit for emperors, simple enough for a special Sunday dinner — this murgh musallam recipe puts a whole marinated chicken at the center of your table, stuffed with golden boiled eggs and slow-braised in a luxurious almond-cashew gravy perfumed with saffron and ghee. Born in the royal kitchens of Mughlai cuisine, “musallam” means “whole” or …
