Mexican Chicken Recipes

Mexican cooking is layered and vibrant — toasted chillies and charred aromatics built into salsas and slow-cooked dishes of real depth. When Mexican cooks work with chicken, they reach for dried chillies, cumin, lime, coriander, garlic and tomatillos, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, frying, boiling and marinating.

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, dried oregano, white onion, ground cumin, corn tortillas and smoked paprika. The dishes here span mexican classics ready in as little as 25 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.