These 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.
Prawns and clams baked in tomato and chilli
There’s something so satisfying about cooking with clams.
Carrot and chilli fritters with eggplant pickle and yoghurt
These fritters are the perfect way to get your five serves of vegetables in. Packed with carrot and served with natural yoghurt, these little beauties are a dinnertime champion.
Chilli chocolate lava cake
Chocoholics delight, because this chocolate lava cake is all things spiced, gooey and delicious.
Kylie Kwong’s beef with black bean and chilli sauce
“This Cantonese classic needs no introduction, and needs little in the way of tweaking to bring it up to date,” says Kylie Kwong.
Tofu with chilli jam and spring onions
It’s hard to turn down crisp, fried tofu.
Chicken stir-fried with holy basil and chilli
This quick and easy Thai stir-fry packs a spicy punch. Use fresh chilli – it will make all the difference.
Fast chilli con carne
Some purists believe there is no room for beans, but we think they add a rich, earthy flavour.
How to make pol sambol
Hailing from Sri Lanka, this vibrant and versatile condiment delivers a spicy-sour kick of coconut
Chilli and soy butter noodles with poached duck egg
A fast noodle dish that’s loaded with flavour and easy to prepare.
Oysters two ways, with cucumber-lime dressing and cabbage-ginger tsukemono
Why settle for just one dressing when you can have two?
Ben Williamson’s harissa chicken, smoked labne and charred lime
The smoke-kissed chook from Brisbane’s Agnes restaurant.
Grilled salmon tataki with lime and jalapeño ponzu
Salmon tataki served with diced cucumber, jalapeño slices and chilli oil for an extra kick of heat.
Fugazzi’s tagliarini with crab, chilli and garlic
A simple yet stunning seafood pasta where blue swimmer crab is the hero.
Vietnamese chilli and lime caramel pork stir-fry
A winning midweek meal to have on rotation.
Amy Chanta and Palisa Anderson’s padt pedt gai (stir-fried spicy chicken wings and bamboo shoots)
Your new favourite way to eat chicken wings.
Chicken and egg noodle soup with ginger and chilli
Winter getting you down? A big bowl of this chicken noodle soup might just cure everything from the common cold to cabin fever.
Amy Chanta and Palisa Anderson’s bpla neung manow (steamed fish with spicy chilli and lime dressing)
Lemongrass, chilli and scud chillies, and a whole steamed snapper. Nothing better.
Summer paccheri with prawns, tomato and pickled chilli
Add some cooked crab or lobster meat to this weeknight favourite and transform it into a luxe dinner party entertainer.
Korean fried chicken with chilli sauce and daikon kimchi
Fried twice, it’s extra nice.
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Scallop ceviche with mango and avocado salsa
For easy summer entertaining, with minimal fuss.
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Baby snapper in acqua pazza
Acqua Pazza, “crazy water,” is a lightly herbed Italian broth, usually used to poach fish. With this recipe, fresh and fine ingredients are key.
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Spice-roasted tomatoes, chickpeas and chilli
A satisfying vegetarian main, or a very able sidekick.
Thai chilli and mango mud crab
Feeling crabby? This Thai chilli and mango mud crab is a definite cure-all.
Una Más’ grilled octopus with fermented chilli
Charred octopus, brought to life with a touch of red chilli sauce.
Chilli squid-ink spaghetti
If you’re not a fan of squid, you can easily substitute prawns or firm white fish for a similar texture and flavour.
Roasted pineapple with chilli salt
Pineapple roasted rôtisserie-style is a revelation. It could only be a dessert by Mat Lindsay of Ester and Poly.
Tomato-chilli vongole with tomato crumbs
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for tomato-chilli vongole with tomato crumbs.
Chicken, prawn and chilli pot stickers
If you’re entertaining a crowd, prepare the pot stickers ahead and store, covered with a damp clean tea towel in the refrigerator and cook when required.
Roast ocean trout with chilli-turmeric paste
Time to fire up your fish dinner.
Alex Davies’ baked burrata with marinated zucchini and fermented chilli
Baked burrata? You best believe it.
Chilli-rosemary prawns with butter
Ready in just 15 minutes.
Victor Liong’s Sichuan sour and spicy poached fish with pickled mustard greens
A sweet-sour dish by the Lee Ho Fook chef that showcases the depth of flavours from Hunanese and Sichuan cuisines.
Bucatini with prawn fra diavolo
Bucatini with prawn fra diavolo recipe – For fra diavolo sauce, preheat oven to 200°C. Toss ingredients together in a roasting pan and roast until tender and starting to caramelise at the edges (40-45 minutes).
Tony Tan’s pipis with Batak sauce
Fragrant with lemongrass, tingling with Sichuan peppercorn and enriched by galangal and makrut lime leaves, this is a sauce to remember.
Liberté’s garlic prawns with chilli and Thai basil
A tried-and-true combination.
Linguine with chilli and rocket
A fool-proof option for tonight’s dinner.
Tony Tan’s spicy silken tofu
It’s Chinese home-style cooking at its speediest.
Phil Wood’s braised broccoli with butter beans, chickpeas and chilli
A hearty vegan dish that’s good as a side or eaten on its own.
Bar Alto’s mussels with chilli, garlic and white wine
Mussels steamed in white wine and spiked with chilli – it’s a combination that can’t be beat.
Louis Tikaram’s Mooloolaba prawn ceviche with green chilli dressing
An ideal summer starter that’s all zing and spice.
La Casita’s grilled pineapple with mulato chilli and pineapple granita
“The mulato chilli adds smoky, chocolate and raisin characters to the honey,” says La Casita chef Josh Lewis. “It’s delicious when brushed over the pineapple and grilled.”
Bar Rochford’s garfish with sauce chien and habanero
If you haven’t tried the Carribean’s herb-packed sauce chien, what are you waiting for?
Whole roasted cauliflower with fermented chilli butter
Turn the humble vegetable into a dinnertime showstopper.
Banana-blossom salad with pineapple-chilli dressing
Australian Gourmet Traveller fast recipe for banana-blossom salad with pineapple-chilli dressing.
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Blood lime and chilli mud crab
This crab recipe is best eaten outside, with sleeves rolled up, in a drippy finger-licking mess.
Grilled lamb cutlets with yoghurt and fresh chilli chutney
Lisa Featherby fast recipe for grilled lamb cutlets with yoghurt and fresh chilli chutney.
Grilled lobster tails with roast chilli butter and corn salad
There’s no taste quite like sweet and succulent lobster fresh. And this grilled lobster tail recipe is a great expression of that flavour.
T-bones with pickled chilli, corn and avocado
Emma Knowles recipe for T-bones with pickled chilli, corn and avocado.
Sopa de fideo
A fiery Mexican take on noodle soup that’s big on tomatoes, lime and smoky spices.
Napier Quarter’s squid-ink spaghetti with cuttlefish, green pea and chilli
A near-perfect summertime pasta.
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