Recipes with hot chili peppers

Cumin-toasted chickpeas simmer with potato chunks, garlic, and fresh green chiles in this quick vegetarian spread that's perfect for scooping with warm bread or pita.

A succulent dish that changes your ordinary pot roast into an extravagant dinner your family or friends will love!

This colorful version of corn chowder features a medley of spices and fills the kitchen with aroma.

Green tomato catsup made with apples, cabbage, bell peppers, and hot chilies in a tangy vinegar brine with pickling spices. A classic big-batch canning recipe for end-of-season tomatoes.

Authentic Mexican chorizo made with pork, toasted ancho and pasilla chilies, whole spices, and vinegar. Cure it for 3 days and the flavor deepens into something store-bought can never touch.

Three-cheese calzones stuffed with ricotta, provolone, and fontina plus prosciutto, olives, pepperoncini, and sundried tomatoes. Baked golden in bread-dough crescents, equally good piping hot or packed cold for a picnic.

Shahi dal is a royal Indian lentil dish with pigeon peas simmered in whole spices like cardamom, cinnamon, and cloves, then finished with a ghee-fried onion tadka. Vegetarian comfort food served over rice.

Mexican turkey casserole layered with corn chips, green chiles, sour cream gravy, and melted cheddar. A Tex-Mex weeknight dinner using leftover turkey or chicken.

Crispy fried samosas using egg roll wrappers filled with spiced potatoes, peas, cumin, coriander, and fresh cilantro. A shortcut Indian appetizer fried golden in minutes.

Sauteed fresh morel mushrooms with Granny Smith apples, asparagus tips, and butter noodles flambed with Calvados. A spring-foraged dish with chipotle heat and watercress garnish.

Mexicali pasta pie with a spaghetti crust, cottage cheese layer, and spiced ground pork with green chiles and tomatoes, topped with cheddar and crushed corn chips. All microwave.

Brown lentils and long grain rice simmered with ghee, cinnamon, turmeric, and fresh green chili. A warming one-pot side dish ready in 45 minutes.

Roma tomatoes slow-roasted for three hours with olive oil, garlic, and hot chili until jammy and concentrated, then tossed with spaghetti, parsley, and basil. Named for the volcano and just as fiery.

Shell-on shrimp sauteed in garlic-chili oil, piled over meltingly soft red peppers slow-cooked in Spanish olive oil. Tear off crusty bread, soak it in that rose-colored oil, and feast.

Baked bean and cheese tortilla bundles stuffed with refried beans, green chiles, cheddar, tomato, and chili powder. Easy Mexican-style burritos baked until melty and topped with taco sauce.

Hearty Dutch oven rump roast braised low and slow with pinto beans, tomato sauce, peppers, and onions. This cowboy-style one-pot beef and bean dinner feeds a hungry crowd.

Happy family stew braises beef chuck with plum tomatoes, green chilies, cumin, oregano, and Worcestershire for hours into a rich Tex-Mex-leaning beef stew. Served over rice for a one-pot crowd dinner.

Old-fashioned sweet pepper pickles brined overnight, then simmered in spiced sugar-vinegar syrup with cloves, cinnamon, mace, and ginger. A canning-jar staple from the heritage pantry.

Kedgeree is a traditional British breakfast food originating in India. Made with smoked haddock, a lean white fish high in protein, it is subtly spiced. Consider using unsmoked fish and substituting brown rice for the traditional white basmati.

Kathi rolls: soft Indian flatbreads stuffed with spiced mashed potatoes, green chiles, and cilantro. The classic Kolkata-style street food, originally from the Nizam restaurant.

Chicken and Monterey Jack cheese filling with green chilies, sour cream, and cream of chicken soup scooped into homemade flour tortillas. Creamy, cheesy Mexican comfort food.

Nuclear chicken wings: oven-baked wings glazed with a double-hot sauce of Tabasco and habanero, brown sugar, vinegar, and ground red pepper. For the chili-head crowd. Serve with blue cheese.

Spicy Indonesian noodles with ground beef, bacon, tomatoes, and authentic seasonings like boemboe nasi goreng and sambal oelek. This one-hour dish tastes even better the next day.

Tender squid rings marinated in toasted spices, lime, and fish sauce, then grilled until smoky and served with a fiery peanut dipping sauce.

You'll be seeing red with this delicious dish made with hot chili peppers and a pinch of paprika.

Authentic Hanoi-style beef pho with charred aromatics, star anise, cinnamon, and a 6-hour broth. Crystal-clear, deeply savory, topped with paper-thin raw beef cooked by the hot soup.

Well, this is NOT non-fat, but is low fat. It's kind of a Schezuan sauce I guess, of my own invention. If I could figure out how to avoid using the oil it would be non-fat.

Indonesian nasi goreng with pork, chicken, shrimp, fresh chilies, soy sauce, and a sliced thin omelette on top. The classic Indonesian fried rice served with shrimp crackers for crunch.

Sri Lankan thosai are crispy lace-edged pancakes made from soaked black gram and rice flour batter with curry leaves, cumin, and chili. A naturally gluten-free flatbread for scooping up curries.

Toast cumin and coriander seeds until fragrant, then pound with fresh green chilies, lemongrass, galangal, and shrimp paste into an authentic Thai green curry paste bursting with heat and herbal brightness.

Hy's Georgia chain-gang chili: a three-meat marathon chili with burgundy-marinated beef, ground pork, and poached chicken, simmered three hours with three kinds of chiles, beer, and Sauterne.

A fiery Caribbean stoba with lamb simmered alongside habaneros, bell peppers, tomatoes, and allspice, then finished with cucumber, olives, and capers. Slow-cooked island comfort in every spoonful.

Southwestern bean stew with Anasazi and pinto beans, hominy, and roasted green chiles. Slow-cooked until creamy, hearty, and deeply satisfying.

Crab, shrimp, fish, and squid braised in a clay pot with ginger, coriander root, mung bean noodles, and fresh basil in a soy-oyster sauce. A spectacular Thai seafood feast for four.

Crispy phyllo bundles stuffed with chopped prawns, green chilli, and oyster sauce, fried golden and served with a spicy tomato-sesame dipping sauce. Ready in 30 minutes flat.

Baked eggplant strips smothered in a fiery Indonesian sambal of crushed tomatoes, garlic, onion and red chili peppers. Terong Balado is a bold, spicy vegetable dish that's naturally vegan.

Poached eggs nestled on warm corn tortillas with sliced avocado, a smoky green chile-tomato sauce, and melted Monterey Jack. California's laid-back take on huevos rancheros.

This is an Asian twist on a French appetizer. Caul fat can be ordered from your local butcher.

Picante de huevos: a Colombian appetizer of hard-boiled eggs, avocado, onion, habanero, and vinegar blended into a spicy salad and served in hollowed mango halves.

Chunky game day salsa with pureed chickpeas, tomatoes, cucumber, celery, green chiles, cilantro, and lime. A thick, scoopable, protein-packed dip that makes 16 servings with zero cooking.

Try this dish that brings memories from the Eastern Hemisphere and a taste you will love.

Sun-dried butterflied kingfish fried until golden and crisp, served with a tangy Thai green mango salad dressed in fish sauce, lime, and palm sugar. Sour, salty, and crunchy in every bite.

This fragrant Vietnamese-style seafood soup simmers shrimp, crab, oysters, scallops, and fish in a lemongrass-coconut broth with kaffir lime and a kick of red chili. Ready in 30 minutes flat.

Baked chimichangas filled with seasoned ground beef, almonds, raisins, and green chiles. Crispy oven-baked tortillas served with almond red sauce and jalapeno cream sauce.

Thai galloping horses (Ma Hor) made vegetarian with shiitake mushrooms, peanuts, garlic, and cilantro root on fresh pineapple chunks. A sweet-savory-spicy Thai appetizer.

Fiery Sichuan chili pork stir-fried with green chiles, garlic, roasted peppercorns, and rice wine. Tongue-tingling, garlicky, and on the table in 25 minutes flat.

Red devil pepper sauce blends Scotch bonnet chiles with allspice, onion, vinegar, and Pickapeppa for a fiery Caribbean-style hot sauce that keeps for months. A few drops go a long way.

Spicy lamb braised in a fresh paste of chilli, lemongrass, galangal, and turmeric with coconut milk, the meat first tenderized with papaya skin. Served with a sharp green papaya salad dressed in lime and fish sauce.