Colombian Chicken Recipes

Colombian cuisine — Ajiaco, bandeja paisa, arepas — hearty and vibrant Andean cooking — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Colombian cooks work with chicken, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, grilling and roasting.

The world's most-cooked protein — mild, lean and endlessly adaptable to almost any spice profile or cooking method. In this collection it's most often cooked with garlic, onion, ground cumin, fine sea salt, cilantro and papa criolla. The dishes here span colombian classics ready in as little as 32 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Ajiaco Bogotano is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 1,840 ratings.