31 Chicken Dishes All Non-vegetarian Food Lovers Must Try

Indians are worldly famous for being foodies, and chicken is one of the most used ingredients used in Indian cuisine. Foreigners love experiencing delicious Indian food with the touch of Indian spices. Many Indian cuisine restaurants are established abroad.

In this article, we will discuss regional, traditional, royal chicken dishes for all the foodies out there. Chicken has so many benefits in our body like strengthening the bone, immunity boost, protein supply, losing weight, stress reliever, and many more countless benefits to the human body.

But is it amazing that food with so many benefits can be healthy too? Yes, I know it is. Read the article below and find out your favourite dish you would like to try.

1. Butter Chicken

Butter Chicken is a delicious chicken dish. Aromatic golden chicken pieces in an incredible creamy sauce are one of the most famous curries, with their main ingredients: lots of butter, of course, tomatoes, and spices. The dish originated in North India in 1948 Delhi and is traditionally served with naan, chapati, or steamy rice.

2. Baked Chicken Seekh

Baked Chicken Seekh is delicious and real popular suits among Indians for a perfect diet plan. It is made with ground minced meat and a handful of spices and usually served with a side of green chutney. So the delicious crispy baked with a mild flavour, the dish is popular in Middle East countries and was particularly brought to India by Mughal rulers.

3. Chicken 65

Chicken 65 is a spicy, deep-fried chicken dish originating from Hotel Buhari, Chennai, India, as a quick snack. It’s a popular spicy, delicious, and hot South Indian restaurant-style boneless chicken starter. The main ingredients of this snack-type dish are, chicken, chilli pepper, garlic, and ginger. Chicken 65 could be made in so many various ways each different from each, Andhra style or Hyderabadi style, Madurai style, etc.

4. Chicken Badam Roll

Chicken Badam Roll, also known as Murgh Badam Roll, in some parts of India is a juicy, mouth-watery dish. The juicy chicken pieces are cooked with the crunch of aromatic almonds, using almonds as the base of gravy and flavourful spices. These chicken badam rolls will get your party started.

5. Chicken Nimbu Dhaniya Shorba

The chicken shorba is a wonderfully refreshing concoction made with loads of aromatic coriander and lime for added flavour and fragrance, which hardly takes too much time, mostly 30-40 min. The main ingredients of shorba are chicken, cream, butter, coriander, lime corn flour, ginger-garlic paste. The Winter months are the best time to enjoy this light soup.

6. Tandoori Chicken

Tandoori Chicken, one of the most popular and loved chicken appetizers that stole the hearts of many across the globe. It is made by roasting chicken marinated in yoghurt and spices in a tandoor, a cylindrical clay oven. Tandoori Chicken originated from the Mughlai cuisine with soft, juicy, flavorful, and delicious grilled chicken with bursting flavours of spices and a unique smoky aroma.

7. Chicken Tikka Masala

Chicken tikka masala is a dish consisting of roasted marinated chicken chunks in a spiced curry sauce made up of yoghurt and species and then you further serve it in a tomato cream sauce. The dish originated in the Indian subcontinent then became famous in the united kingdom. The dish is offered at restaurants around the world.

8. Mughlai Chicken With Gravy

This dish is for special occasions not because it takes a long time and requires very pricey ingredients but because it is rich and somewhat decadent tasting. The dish was introduced in India during the rule of the famous Mughal dynasty. Try cooking this dish and enjoy it, and you may feel like royalty yourself.

9. Kerala Chicken Roast

This Kerala Chicken Roast is a family meal pack, most famous among south Indian families. It is a semi-gravy chicken recipe so there’s enough to mop up with your appam(south Indian pancakes made with fermented rice) and gravy also has tons of onions. Mere the looks of this dish with fiery red colour can impress you. If you love experiencing various chicken dishes this should be on your top list.

10. Chicken Sukka

Chicken sukka or Kori sukka is a Mangalorean dry Konkani chicken dish made using fresh chicken, masala, grated fresh coconut, and it is generously tempered using the “tadka”(frying of species) of onion in ghee. The main ingredients of this delicious cuisine are fresh chicken, coconut, garlic, chilli, and curry leaves. The dish is traditionally served with dosa, parotta, rice, or neer dosa.

11. Mughlai Biryani

The Mughlai biryani is a mild lightly spiced dum-cooked and layered biryani made with rice, spices, mix veggies, and dry fruit. This biryani, unlike others, is layered and dum cooked which takes a significant amount of time. But the results are always good and with effort and time. Biryanis are most suitable for lunch, especially on weekends with your entire family, this is an amazing lunch.

12. Murgh Malaiwala

Murgh Malaiwala is a delicious chicken recipe made with absolutely ghee or oil. So how do you make it? Okay, so chicken drumsticks marinated with ginger-garlic are cooked in milk, cream chillies, saffron, and a rose petal garam masala. With the least calories among all the chicken dishes, you can serve it with chapati or paratha.

13. Instant Pot Butter Chicken

As you have heard right it’s an instant dish that you can make within 30 minutes. The recipe is super easy, delicious, and an instant dish. You definitely will have all the ingredients at your place, I assure you. It requires tomatoes, garlic, ginger, turmeric, boneless skinless chicken thighs, and some common spices. It will only take 30 minutes to make it and trust me it's an authentic tasting dish, loved by hundreds of thousands of people who have made it. You've got to try this one.

14. Chicken Chettinad

So here you come again, Indian diverse population will always have something of its special, something that belongs to the particular region, Chicken Chettinad is one of South India's most flavourful dishes made with chicken, fresh ground spices, and herbs. Based on the authentic Chettinad chicken recipe many modern versions have been deprived. To make chicken Chettinad a unique blend of spices is deep roasted and ground. This spice blend brings in a great essence to the dish.

15. Chicken Dhansak Parsi

Chicken Dhansak Parsi is a Parsi addition to chicken recipes. This chicken dish can be made with chicken or lamb. Dhansak is traditionally served with brown rice and kachumber salad. The main ingredient of this dish is Dhansak masala powder.

16. Chicken Potli

Chicken Potli or chicken pouch is a bite-size appetizer, perfect for parties as a starter. It has spicy meat filling in the dough of pouch shaped. The main ingredients of this dish are oyster sauce, soya sauce, aromatic powder, cheddar cheese, and filo sheets. The total duration of this dish would be 50 minutes.

17. Chicken Palwal

Well, chicken Palwal is a super delicious recipe, packed with a host of spices and cooked to perfection. A perfect cuisine for parties or dinners at home. This dish is made with lots of perfection and sharp hands, not everyone can make it on the first attempt, but once u perfect the art of making it, you wouldn't be bored of eating it.

18. Chicken Saagwala

It's a light curry dish common in northern Indian cooking, with key ingredients like turmeric, cinnamon, garam masala, and fresh spinach with lightly powdered pan-fried chicken. It's one of the healthier dishes if you don't wanna gain calories and still enjoy delicious chicken. You can eat it with chapati or parathas. But this dish is a winning dish that people of all ages will love.

19. Chana-Katthe Pyaz Ka Murgh

This one is a tricky and complicated dish with lots of main ingredients like chickpea, yellow chilli powder, chicken, bay leaf, cumin seeds, lemon juice, and some spices. Chicken morsels are cooked with pickled shallots and chickpea gravy, which later is served with the main paratha. It takes almost 2 hours to make this rich flooded dish.

20. Chicken Shami Kebabs

Usually, when it comes to non-vegetarian chicken starters, kebabs are so famous and loved among people, but more specifically shami kebab. You will not only eat it but also enjoy cooking this quick snack. Shami kebabs are succulent chicken with chana dal and spicy masala filling inside and crispy fried on the outside. Perfect cuisine for dinner and parties served with coriander and mint chutney.

21. Spicy Tangy Kadhai Chicken

For people who like that additional sweet flavour in spicy dishes, this dish would be perfect. The Chicken dish is made by cooking chicken in spices, jaggery, and tamarind. It's a lip-smacking option to cook with flavours of sweetness, sour and spicy. If you call friends or families over dinner this flavourful dish has to be served.

22. Kadhai Chicken

Kadhai Chicken is a flavourful spicy delicious dish. It's made using key ingredients like chicken tomatoes, ginger, garlic, and fresh ground spices known as kadhai masala. You can find Kadhai Chicken on most Indian restaurant menus but make differently in each place with their modification which makes it special to that one place or state.

23. Bombay Biryani

Bombay Biryani is made up of a unique blend of spices. Biryani recipes are the national pride of India and are made in thousands of different ways, varying with each state. Biryani is usually layered and dum cooked with lots of patience and time. The uniqueness of Bombay Biryani comes with the addition of plum prunes and dry spices, making it so popular among the native citizens.

24. Amritsari Chicken Masala

It's an authentic Punjabi dish, chicken is made in the unique Amritsari gravy and flavoured with fresh cream, butter, and fresh tomatoes. Also known as chicken makhani or much. This is the most famous and common dish among Indian restaurants. The delicious dish can be made at home and doesn't require too many ingredients or Indian spices.

25. Punjabi Lemon Chicken

Chicken full of lemony flavour is a melt in your mouth. This lemony kick in this chicken dish originated from Punjab. Punjabi Lemon chicken is made with citrus juices. Delicious, easy and quick Indian stir fry chicken recipe using lemon, yoghurt, and spices are the must-try dish for every chicken lover out there.

26. Teekha Murgh

"Teekha" is a Hindi word meaning spicy. So as you can understand with the name, this dish is going to be fiery full of spices. So this fiery chicken is made with green chillies, red chillies, and black pepper with dry roasted curry leave acting as the cherry on the top. If you love hoy and spicy gravy then this recipe is for you. Served with a side dish to chapati, naan, kulcha, or paratha.

27. Masaledar Chicken Lollipop

Chicken lollipops are everyone's favourite, especially for all the goodies who love desi Chinese combinations. These are extremely tasty and easy to make, you can even make them better than at a restaurant. Chicken lollipop is the fusion of Indo-Chinese very famous cuisine, making it a perfect snack. It's loved by all the sections of society.

28. Chicken Gilafi Kebab

Gilaf means to cover, it's a dish in which chicken kebabs are cooked in Gilaf. Chicken mince is mixed with an array of aromatic spices. These kebabs are covered with chopped bell peppers. As these kebabs require less oil or can be baked so no oil, these are the healthier kebabs. They are perfect for party platters too.

29. Lasooni Murgh

Lasooni Murgh is a traditional dish. It's creamy and full of flavours and should be served over some kind of crab (rice, potatoes, or naan) to absorb the flavours of gravy. For lasooni murgh, you will need curd, lemon juice, white pepper, saffron, chicken as key ingredients. Once you're done making, garnish it with cilantro leaves and grated cheese.

30. Methi Malai Cranberry Chicken

This chicken dish is made by marinating chicken chunks in a flavourful pool of spices and refreshing cranberry puree. Cooked in cream, yoghurt, and cornflour in an oven. Methi Malai chicken is mostly prepared for dinners.

31. Andhra Style Chicken Curry

Andhra cuisine is popular for hot and spicy foods and especially the food made in the Guntur region, a place in Andhra well known for fiery hot and spicy foods. Andhra chicken curry is traditionally called Kodi Kura. You can cook this dish with minimum ingredients and all available in most households like tomatoes, coconut milk, lemon juice, and chicken of course. Chicken marinated in all the spices cooked with other ingredients and served with mostly rice.

So these were the top 31 Indian chicken dishes. India being such a diverse country has unique flavours, fragrance and spices give us a variety of food, dishes. Here, in this article, I've discussed so many regional chicken dishes in North India, South India, East Indian curries.

Find your favourite food from the above 31 chicken dishes and try preparing them to experience different flavours. Binge eat!

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