Peri-Peri Chicken

A traditional Portuguese dish, with a spicy marinade. Goes well with salad, rice or fries.     Peri-Peri chicken always screams Nando’s to me. Peri-Peri means Bird’s Eye Chilli. The secret of Nando’s grills is their Peri-Peri Sauce, which has to be made with these chillies. But since I didn’t have these chillies with me,Read more

Chicken Hot Wings

A sweet, extra hot, sticky chicken wings, baked in the oven and then smothered in a thickened delicious sauce.      These extra HOT chicken wings are so good. In fact, they are so good that my husband have requested them twice this week for dinner. He has been asking me to make chicken wings,Read more

Fire Chicken/ Indian Dynamite Chicken

Batter fried, crispy chicken chunks tempered with mustard seeds, chili flakes and curry leaves and coated with a spicy mayo sauce giving a dynamite flavor explosion.     I have been scripting the recipe for this delicious fire chicken in my mind for a long time now. It started going on an endless loop inRead more

Chicken Manchurian with Gravy

A popular Indo-Chinese dish – Chicken Manchurian. Deep fried succulent pieces of chicken tossed in a spicy and saucy gravy. Chicken Manchurian is my all time favorite. I used to love this dish since I was a child. Chicken Manchurian and Fried Rice is the ultimate combo. But this tastes great with noodles and plainRead more

Stove-Top Chicken Fajita Pizza

Chicken Fajita Pizza, a very spicy and flavorful pizza with the Mexican flavors. It has salsa, chicken fajita mix and lots of cheese baked on a crispy crust which is cooked on stop stove top in a skillet.     I totally love Mexican flavors and this pizza is full of them. It is spicyRead more

Chicken Pasta Bake

This mouth watering one dish meal, Chicken Pasta Bake is perfect for the whole family. Chicken, macaroni in white sauce, beautifully flavored red sauce, melting mozzarella and finally crisp buttery bread crumbs on top is just amazing. Pasta casseroles are usually a cheesy and luxurious affair for us. I make such dishes usually twice orRead more

Chicken Tikka Masala

Chicken Tikka Masala, succulent pieces of roasted chicken tikka in thick and spicy tomato based gravy. Chicken tikka masala is a very popular dish which you can find in almost all Indian restaurants. It is a close cousin to butter chicken. But I feel that the flavors are more intense in chicken tikka masala. AsRead more

Tandoori Chicken Samboosa

Tandoori Chicken Samosa is bite-sized parcel of spicy tandoori chicken filling encased in a crispy, buttery samboosa shell.      Samosa-Samboosa…Potayto-Potahto…it’s all the same. But I am going to use the word samboosa today and not samosa for two reasons. First, obviously because of the shape. Traditionally Indian samosas are triangle shaped and this isRead more

Chicken Bread Discs

Chicken Bread Discs are made with a spicy chicken filling placed on bread discs, which is then topped with tomato slice and cheese, this is then dipped in egg and then breadcrumbs and finally shallow fried in butter.       The first 10 days of Ramadan are over and now we are in theRead more

Cheesy Chicken Sliders

This pull apart cheesy chicken sliders make a perfect food for iftar or a party. A spicy chicken filling along with a flavour filled coriander mint chutney and melted stringy mozzarella cheese packed inside soft buns, are too much fun to eat and so delicious.     Ramadan calls for many recipes and unfortunately inRead more

Chicken Fries

A simple and easy comfort food, CHIKEN FRIES with a spicy chicken filling on a bed of crisp french fries which is then topped with mozzarella cheese and baked till done.    Remember my old post, cheese fries with ranch sauce? Well this is another version of it. A more spicier one. This one isRead more

Calicut Paragon Style Payyoli Chicken Fry

Payyoli chicken fry, a dry chicken fry with the authentic malabar flavours. The chicken is marinated with dried red chilli paste and many flavourful spices, deep fried in coconut oil and served with crispy and spicy fried coconut, curry leaves and green chillies.     This spicy and delicious chicken fry is quite popular inRead more