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, roasting and baking.

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 ground cumin, onion, papa criolla, garlic, fine sea salt and tomatoes. The dishes here span colombian classics ready in as little as 40 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.