What to cook with chicken thighs

136 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use chicken thighs. 91 of them are built around it. It turns up most in Japanese, Thai and Indian recipes.

recipes use it: 136
are built around it: 91
median total time: 58 min
ready in 30 minutes or less: 22

Recipes built around chicken thighs

With chicken thighs, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with chicken thighs

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with chicken thighs, out of 136 recipes.

Garlic62% of recipes
Chicken stock28% of recipes
Ginger36% of recipes
Onion47% of recipes
Soy sauce27% of recipes
Rice18% of recipes
Scallions21% of recipes
Cumin23% of recipes

How much recipes use

Across 62 recipes that give an amount, the median is 1½ lb. Half of them fall between 1 to 2 lb.

Where chicken thighs shows up

Cuisines

Japanese12
Thai11
Indian9
Vietnamese7

Courses

Dinner103
Main9
Snack8

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.