Piri piri chicken is one of those dishes where the first bite sells the whole thing: smoky, sharp with lemon, loud with garlic, and a heat that builds instead of punching you in the face. The trouble is that most homemade versions taste like chicken that has only heard about piri piri. They’re spicy, sure,…
Chicken shawarma is easy to love at a street stall and surprisingly easy to get wrong at home. The usual result is pale, slightly steamed chicken, basically roast chicken in a spice coat, instead of the dark, crisp edges and juicy centre you get from a spit. This homemade chicken shawarma recipe fixes the two…
This buffalo chicken dip has been to more Super Bowl parties than I can actually count at this point, and for a while, it was a genuine coin flip whether it would come out right. Sometimes thick and scoop able. Other times a layer of orange grease sitting on top like something had gone wrong…
This instant pot chicken and rice recipe came out of a genuine need for a dinner that required almost no attention on a night that had none to spare. The idea of dumping everything into one pot and walking away sounded perfect until the first attempt ended with a Burn notice flashing on the display…
This chicken katsu curry recipe started as an attempt to recreate a dish from a small Japanese curry house crispy, golden fried chicken sliced into strips, sitting next to a pool of thick, mildly spiced curry sauce over rice. The first homemade attempt got the curry sauce reasonably close. The chicken was the problem. It…
This chicken and wild rice soup recipe came together on a night when the fridge had half a rotisserie chicken, a lonely bag of wild rice blend from the back of the pantry, and not much else that looked like dinner. It seemed like an easy combination chicken, rice, some vegetables, a creamy base and…
This chicken alfredo recipe exists because of one deeply disappointing dinner. The sauce broke halfway through cooking, separating into a greasy layer floating on top of clumpy, grainy cheese that refused to smooth back out no matter how much whisking happened. It looked nothing like the smooth, glossy sauce from the restaurant it was meant…
This hearty chicken stew recipe came out of a week where the boiler broke and the flat stayed cold for four days straight. Soup wasn’t going to cut it the goal was something thick enough to actually sit in the stomach and warm the whole body from the inside, the kind of dinner that needs…
This chicken curry from scratch recipe started on a rainy Tuesday, staring at a takeaway order that came to £14.60 with delivery the third one that month. Somewhere between paying and eating it, the thought landed properly: this should be makeable at home, for a fraction of the cost, without waiting forty minutes for a…
Almost every one of the world’s cultures has a version of this soup known fondly in the United States as Jewish penicillin, it is the go-to comfort food for mothers the world over. There is something that happens when you make chicken soup completely from scratch. The kitchen fills with a smell that is different…