“I love adding a little bit of chili to my dishes for an extra kick of spice.”

“Drain the vinegar from the clam and add the sweet pea juice, wasabi, water chestnuts, chili, parsley and sea salt and toss to combine.”

“It jarred with the sweetish tomato sauce I paired it with until added chili flakes to the food.”

“It is large enough to serve as lunch for two or three, and luxuriously flavoured with pork adobo and with chilli.”

“At this stage you can whisk or stir in any chosen flavouring such as sweet chilli sauce.”

“The water chestnuts went with the baby corn and straw mushrooms very well, and the cream cut the chilli heat to perfection.”

“They are sauteing garlic and onion and chopping tomatoes and chillies with aplomb that would shame a sous-chef in Bombay.”

“Women sell everything from tomatoes, chillies and betel to clay coffee roasters and straw sleeping mats.”

“They gave wheat, barley and mustard at the time of the rabi and at the time of kharif, rice, pulses, beans, salt and chillies were collected.”

“There are enormous bags of scarlet chilis, sacks of tobacco and piles of wicker baskets.”

“I pile on some faintly garlicked guac and make short work of a yummy ground-beef enchilada, although I know the enchilada gravy could taste more emphatically of red chilis.”

“It's almost suffocatingly nourishing, with plenty of chilis and vinegar, bamboo shoots, carrots, chicken, egg, tofu, pork, baby shrimp, and mushrooms.”

“I was supposed to de-stem and tear up 1.5 ounces each of mulato, ancho and pasillo chilies.”

“Strain the chilies through a fine mesh sieve, reserving the water and chilies separately.”

“We picked oregano from the field and gathered garlic, onions, and chilies from the shed.”