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Hunan-style steamed blue-eye trevalla with salted red chilli and pickled green chilli.

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20 tongue-tingling chilli recipes

Get some fire-in-the-belly with these hot and spicy recipes.

20 recipes
Tingling prawns

Tingling prawns

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
KFC, but not as you may know it.

Korean-style fried chicken

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Adam Liaw's Singapore chilli crab.

Singapore chilli crab

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Kung pao chicken.
EASY

Kung pao chicken

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Chicken

Barbecued spicy chicken

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Squid with chilli and basil

Thai-style stir-fried squid with chilli and basil

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Hunan-style steamed blue-eye trevalla with salted red chilli and pickled green chilli.

Steamed fish with pickled green chillies and salted red chillies

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Singapore chilli prawns with crisp noodles

Singapore chilli prawns with crisp noodles

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Soba noodles with cheat's crunchy chilli oil and avocado.
EASY

Crunchy chilli oil soba noodles with avocado

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw's Christmas red and green hot sauces.
EASY

Adam Liaw's fermented red chilli-cherry hot sauce

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Poached chicken, cucumber and silken tofu salad.

Poached chicken and silken tofu salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Serve these spicy pawns with noodles or steamed rice.
EASY

Neil Perry's spicy tamarind prawn stir-fry

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
The Three Blue Ducks' chilli-glazed chicken and watermelon, spelt and radish salad.

Chilli-glazed chicken

  • Darren Robertson and Mark LeBrooy
Chongqing chilli chicken.

Chongqing chilli chicken

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
This chilli sauce features in Kylie Kwong's potato stir-fry.
EASY

Kylie Kwong's chilli sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
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Kylie Kwong's spanner crab and ginger dumplings with chilli oil and Sichuan pepper and salt.

Spanner crab and ginger dumplings with Sichuan chilli oil recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
Add a splash of vodka to your pasta sauce.
EASY

Pasta with tomato vodka sauce, chilli and burrata

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Hot-and-sour prawn soup.

Hot-and-sour prawn soup

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Hot stuff: the Blue Ducks' homemade sriracha.
EASY

How to make your own sriracha chilli sauce

  • 2 hrs +
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Chilli choc truffles.

Chilli choc truffles

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Caroline Velik