If you can stand the heat, stay in the kitchen.
Oct 24, 2023 5:00amThese recipes up the chilli, and the ante. Our collection of fresh chilli recipes features impressive pasta dishes that take just 30 minutes to prepare, punchy oysters served with a homemade chilli dressing, and red-hot mains that are guaranteed to please. Plus, a few easy chilli recipes to turn to when you can't be bothered to cook after work.
If it's seafood dishes you're after, try Una Mas' grilled octopus with fermented chilli, our roast ocean trout with a chilli-turmeric paste, chilli-rosemary prawns with butter and Fugazzi's tagliarini with crab, chilli and garlic. We also have spicy main recipes with chilli that bring the heat such as Ben Williamson's harissa chicken served with smoked labne and charred lime or Korean fried chicken with chilli sauce and daikon kimchi.
Here are our best chilli recipes for when you want to dial up the heat.
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Kylie Kwong's beef with black bean and chilli sauce
Photo: Ben Dearnley
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Tofu with chilli jam and spring onions
Photo: William Meppem
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Chicken stir-fried with holy basil and chilli
Photo: William Meppem
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Fast chilli con carne
Photo: Will Horner
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How to make pol sambol
Photo: John Paul Urizar
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Chilli and soy butter noodles with poached duck egg
Photo: Ben Dearnley
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Oysters two ways, with cucumber-lime dressing and cabbage-ginger tsukemono
Photo: John Paul Urizar
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Blood lime and chilli mud crab
Photo: John Paul Urizar
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Ben Williamson's harissa chicken, smoked labne and charred lime
Photo: Benito Martin
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Grilled salmon tataki with lime and jalapeño ponzu
Photo: James Moffatt
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Fugazzi's tagliarini with crab, chilli and garlic
Photo: Ben Dearnley
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Vietnamese chilli and lime caramel pork stir-fry
Photo: John Paul Urizar
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Amy Chanta and Palisa Anderson's padt pedt gai (stir-fried spicy chicken wings and bamboo shoots)
Photo: Elise Hassey
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Chicken and egg noodle soup with ginger and chilli
Photo: William Meppem
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Amy Chanta and Palisa Anderson's bpla neung manow (steamed fish with spicy chilli and lime dressing)
Photo: Elise Hassey
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Summer paccheri with prawns, tomato and pickled chilli
Photo: John Paul Urizar
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Korean fried chicken with chilli sauce and daikon kimchi
Photo: Ben Dearnley
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Scallop ceviche with mango and avocado salsa
Photo: James Moffatt
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Baby snapper in acqua pazza
Photo: Alicia Taylor
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Spice-roasted tomatoes, chickpeas and chilli
Photo: Ben Dearnley
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Thai chilli and mango mud crab
Photo: Ben Dearnley
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Una Más' grilled octopus with fermented chilli
Photo: Con Poulos
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Chilli squid-ink spaghetti
Photo: Chris Court
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Mat Lindsay's roasted pineapple with chilli salt
Photo: Ben Dearnley
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Tomato-chilli vongole with tomato crumbs
Photo: Chris Chen
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Chicken, prawn and chilli pot stickers
Photo: James Moffat
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Roast ocean trout with chilli-turmeric paste
Photo: James Moffatt
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Alex Davies' baked burrata with marinated zucchini and fermented chilli
Photo: Ben Dearnley
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Chilli-rosemary prawns with butter
Photo: Ben Dearnley
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Victor Liong's Sichuan sour and spicy poached fish with pickled mustard greens
Photo: Alicia Taylor
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Bucatini with prawn fra diavolo
Photo: Ben Dearnley
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Pipis with Batak sauce
Photo: Alicia Taylor
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Liberté's garlic prawns with chilli and Thai basil
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Linguine with chilli and rocket
Photo: Ben Dearnley
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Tony Tan's spicy silken tofu
Photo: Anson Smart
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Phil Wood's braised broccoli with butter beans, chickpeas and chilli
Photo: Mark Roper
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Bar Alto's mussels with chilli, garlic and white wine
Photo: William Meppem
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Louis Tikaram's Mooloolaba prawn ceviche with green chilli dressing
Photo: Kara Rosenlund
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La Casita's grilled pineapple with mulato chilli and pineapple granita
Photo: Kara Rosenlund
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Bar Rochford's garfish with sauce chien and habanero
Photo: Mark Roper
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Whole roasted cauliflower with fermented chilli butter
Photo: Ben Dearnley
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Banana-blossom salad with pineapple-chilli dressing
Photo: William Meppem
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Singapore chilli crab
Photo: William Meppem
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Grilled lamb cutlets with yoghurt and fresh chilli chutney
Photo: Ben Dearnley
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Grilled lobster tails with roast chilli butter and corn salad
Photo: Ben Dearnley
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T-bones with pickled chilli, corn and avocado
Photo: Ben Dearnley
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Sopa de fideo
Photo: William Meppem
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Napier Quarter's squid-ink spaghetti with cuttlefish, green pea and chilli
Photo: Mark Roper
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Double chocolate and chilli pots
Photo: John Paul Urizar
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