Chicken thigh recipes, tips, tricks, and techniques for home cooks
First and foremost, this isn’t an authentic recipe. It’s inspired by a traditional Palestinian recipe, but it’s not authentic. This – like many of the things I cook – evolved from something I tried somewhere or heard about and tried to reproduce on my own. In this case, with help […]
I love barbecued chicken. I love chicken thighs. Therefore it follows that I love barbecued chicken thighs, right? Well, obviously I do because there are already a few different barbecued chicken thigh recipes on this site. This one is different. I mean it’s not a lot different. It’s still chicken […]
Paitan essentially means creamy. This rich, creamy, ramen broth contains no cream, but the texture – the result of long cooking and puréeing the chicken (cartilage, skin, and all) – gives the broth a thick creamy texture similar to the Pork Tonkotsu broth that is popular in many ramen restaurants. […]
I’ve taken a few weeks off from The Chicken Thigh Guy. Mostly because I … well to be honest I just needed a break. As much as I love the little buggers, a household diet consisting only of chicken thighs leads to … well, boredom mostly. Eat some steak. Some […]
This isn’t a traditional “curry”, not that there’s any huge digression from the myriad of wonderful South Asian culinary traditions that originated that unfortunate lable, just that it doesn’t really adhere to any particular traditional recipe. It combines deeply browned onions with a reasonable complex spice mixture, and whole peeled […]
There are plenty of arguments about what, exactly, a chicken pot pie is. I’ve seen everything from a perfectly formed, two-crust pie, to a pan of soup topped with biscuits, to something that resembled an overstuffed Pop Tart called a pot pie. For me, pot pie has always been a […]
This dish is essentially a highly simplified riff on char siu, the amazing Cantonese barbecue tradition. Whereas char siu preparations often include soy, hoisin, and other additions, here you’ll only use salt, five-spice powder, and an long rest in the refrigerator for most of the heavy lifting, with just a […]
Plums are an unusual fruit. They’re sharply tart and extremely sweet, soft and fleshy, yet the skin is tough against a knife blade. The rest of the world makes more use of them than most Americans. My instagram freed has been full these past weeks of French friends making the […]
I developed this recipe for my Weekly Menu newsletter (sign up at this link) but decided that: A) It’s chicken thighs.B) It’s really too good and too easy not to share here.C) See item A. Chicken Thighs. This blog is about chicken thighs. Sheet pan chicken is all the rage. […]
I had a surfeit of onions this week. A surplus. A bounty. I had a lot of onions in the house. I also didn’t have a whole lot else. At least not a whole lot that was all that interesting. I could have re-made any number of the dishes I’ve […]