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40 spicy chicken recipes

Whether the heat is dialled up to the max or more sweet and mellow, it's hard to beat a fiery chicken feast, especially on a Friday.

40 recipes
Cornflake-crumbed chicken with honey miso chilli dressing and messy noodles.

Crispy chicken with honey miso chilli dressing and messy noodle salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Buttermilk fried chicken with hot sauce.

Buttermilk fried chicken and hot sauce recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Sriracha fried chicken and pickles.
EASY

Sriracha fried chicken and pickles

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
KFC, but not as you may know it.

Korean-style fried chicken

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Steamed and deep-fried chicken wings.

Deep-fried chicken wings with chilli, salt and finger lime

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
Fried chicken with vinegar dressing.
EASY

Adam Liaw's fried chicken with vinegar dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Karen Martini's Japanese-style fried chicken.

Chicken karaage with sweet chilli sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
The Three Blue Ducks' chilli-glazed chicken and watermelon, spelt and radish salad.

Chilli-glazed chicken

  • Darren Robertson and Mark LeBrooy
For a Mexican-inspired feast, serve this simplified chicken mole with with braised beans, guacamole, tortillas, corn salsa and creme fraiche.

Karen Martini's chicken and scorched chilli mole

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Roasted chicken Marylands with chilli and honey.
EASY

Roasted chicken Marylands with chilli and honey

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Pour in a shot of chilli oil, a shot of beer and a shot of soy sauce to finish this chicken dish.

Spice Temple's three-shot chicken with beer, chilli and soy

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Chinese chicken noodle soup with a chilli kick.
EASY

Kylie Kwong's chicken, chilli and Hokkien noodle soup recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
Chicken and miso soup with chilli poached eggs.
EASY

Chicken and miso soup with chilli poached eggs

  • Jessica Brook
Stir-fried chicken and Chinese cabbage in chilli bean sauce.

Stir-fried chicken and Chinese cabbage in chilli bean sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Chicken

Barbecued spicy chicken

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
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Kylie Kwong's stir-fried Hokkien noodles with chicken, chilli and coriander.
EASY

Kylie Kwong's stir-fried Hokkien noodles with chicken, chilli and coriander

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
This chicken soup is a riff on the Greek avgolemono.

Roasted lemon chicken and burghul hot yoghurt soup with chilli oil

  • Katrina Meynink
Neil Perry's devilish chicken.

Devilish chicken

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Syrian-style baked chicken with cous cous.

Speedy Syrian chicken bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Food. Neil Perry's spicy chicken stew.SMH GOOD WEEKEND Picture by WILLIAM MEPPEM GW120609

Spicy chicken stew

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's spicy barbecued chicken.
EASY

Spicy barbecued chicken recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Spicy fried shallots make this roast chicken even better.
EASY

Turmeric roasted chicken with spicy fried shallots

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Alison Roman
This chicken dish is easy, but don't rush the marinating time to ensure maximum flavour.
EASY

Spicy miso barbecued chicken with pickled cucumber

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Barbecue chicken wings with spicy tomato sauce.
EASY

Barbecue chicken wings with spicy tomato sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
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Spicy fried chicken with sour cream dip.

Spicy fried chicken with sour cream dip

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Barbecued chicken thighs with spicy mayo.
EASY

Neil Perry’s barbecued marinated chicken with spicy mayonnaise

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Banh mi meets meatloaf.

Vietnamese chicken and lemongrass meatloaf with spicy glaze

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Chicken and prawn spicy sesame noodles
EASY

Neil Perry's chicken and prawn spicy sesame noodles

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Hot, sour, sweet and savoury: Chicken, sausage and capsicum bake.
EASY

Sweet and spicy chicken and sausage tray bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Neil Perry's piri-piri chicken
EASY

Neil Perry's piri-piri chicken

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Adam Liaw's kari-kari chicken with spiced yoghurt.
EASY

Kari-kari chicken with spiced yoghurt recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Peri-peri barbecue chicken.

Peri-peri barbecue chicken

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Karen Martini recipe Butter Chicken Photograph by Marcel Aucar Styling by Karina Duncan

Butter chicken

  • 1-2 hrs
Jamie Oliver's easy peri peri chicken.

Jamie Oliver's easy peri peri chicken

  • 2 hrs +
  • Jamie Oliver
Please don't judge the potato chips, come along for the ride.

Piri piri butterflied chicken and chips

  • Katrina Meynink
Chicken satay skewers.

Chicken skewers with easy satay sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
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