Chicken dishes with yogurt that are like a curry, but aren't Indian? Anything like that around?

[SocksManly]

Got to thinking of this the other day, meant to ask. I like how lots of indian dishes use yogurt as the base for their sauces... Do other cuisines have a take on this without indian spices perhaps?

[Bada Bing]

You could do a version of Hungarian Chicken Paprikash, I bet. Would probably still need some sour cream, too, though.

[jamieeats]

my mom used to make a healthy mock-fried chicken using cornflake crumbs and low-fat plain yogurt. she basically coated the chicken in yogurt, dipped it in the cornflake crumbs (and poured more over the chicken once in the dish) and then baked.

[JungMann]

Turkish cookery has a tradition of yogurt soups which sometimes incorporate chicken. Levantine cuisine has a similar stew of chicken cooked in yogurt thickened with eggs or cornstarch. Fatteh, chicken smothered with yogurt, pita crisps and pine nuts is also popular.

[jhussain]

this recipe is great with yogurt http://suzyeats.com/maklooba-upside-d...

[silvergirl]

I remember my step father's mother making what you've described in the early 80s and I kind of had the impression it was something she'd been making for a long time. I don't remember it tasting of spices or herbs at all, just tangy like the yogurt. It was in Los Angeles and their family had no pronounced ethnicity of any sort. There may have been grapes, like Veronique. I wish I could tell you more, but I was in about the third grade at the time and neither of them is alive.

[Harters]

Quite common in the eastern Mediterranean - Greek, Turkish, Cypriot, Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, etc.

Of course there's something of a crossover in the use of particular spices between those countries and those further east - say, through Iran to Pakistan and India. Cumin, for example, is in very common use.