Devilled chicken is a popular Sri Lankan-style chilli chicken stir-fry.

Most restaurants serve this spicy devil chicken recipe on their set menus.

Why spend money when you can make a platter of spicy chicken stir fry at home? 

Despite how spicy the dish is, once you’ve tasted a bowl of devilled chicken, you’ll want to take the next bite of the Sri Lankan-style chilli chicken.

It’s a popular restaurant menu dish that anyone visiting the country to explore or visiting family, seems to remember.

No surprise here as it’s so good.

Once you learn to make the devilled chicken dish, I’ll guarantee, you’ll be making it as often as possible.

This is one of the most requested and cooked spicy chicken stir-fry recipe out of my kitchen.

For your convenience, I’ve also mentioned a few serving ideas below that you can try.

What to serve with devilled chicken.

• Rice dishes you can pair with devilled chicken.
  • Plain white rice.
  • Sri Lankan Yellow Rice(turmeric rice)
  • Easy lemon rice recipe.
  • Indian fragrant ghee rice(nei choru).
  • garlic and egg fried rice(in 30 minutes).
  • Easy chicken fried rice or vegetable fried rice(spicy).

• Other Main carbs to serve with devil chicken.
  • How to make Sri Lankan paratha (godamba)roti.
  • How to make Sri Lankan egg roti/paratha.
  • How to make poori(deep-fried Indian bread).
  • Garlic Naan recipe without yeast.

• Side dishes you can pair with devilled chicken.
  • Spicy pineapple curry.
  • potato curry.
  • cabbage curry with coconut milk
  • Pumpkin curry(Sri Lankan wattakka curry).
  • cabbage curry with coconut milk
  • Eggplant sweet and sour curry(Sri Lankan brinjal pahi).

• Explore the blog to find more side dishes to serve this devilled chicken.
• More serving ideas for the devil chicken recipe.
  • Make sure to add a few slices of cucumber to cool down all that heat.
  • Serve as an appetizer with a few soft pita chips, if you make the devilled chicken in large chunks they can replace the usual chicken wings.
  • Since these are spicy, make a yoghurt dip or a sweet sauce to balance the heat.
  • Use boneless chicken and you can make a few gyros for dinner with a green salad on the side.

Just don’t…

Don’t go rinsing the pan you made this chilli chicken in, there’s a lot of goodness coating the pan that you can still use.

Drop a cup of cooked rice and mix it with the leftover sauce, have a few slices of bread?

Then wipe the sauce off the pan or simply let the kids use their fingers to lick all that thick sauce.

How I make the devil chicken.

The chicken is shallow fried until they turn slightly crispy.

Once fried, the chicken pieces are tossed with capsicums and onions.

And then mixed with a spicy sauce. the sauce is where the flavours come into play, it’s versatile enough to be made spicy or sweet.

A simple enough dish you can create at home with ingredients you can easily find in the kitchen.

Go ahead and make it because there’s more than one reason to fall in love with this chicken stir-fry.

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Utensils and appliances needed.

• Chopping board and knife.
• Bowls to hold ingredients.
• Medium-sized frying pan.
• Large wok.

Shallow-fry Vs deep-frying

Try to choose what’s best for you.

• Deep frying gives you a much crisper chicken.

You can get the pieces to fry on all sides evenly but this way of frying is not the healthiest option for those who are thinking about wellness.

• Shallow frying is a better option as you are using less oil.

You’ll still get a crispy chicken but you’ll have to constantly keep turning the chicken to get an even fry, still, I rather prefer shallow frying.

To make air fryer devilled chicken

• You can now use the air fryer chicken tenders recipe to make a way healthier devil chicken recipe.

More recipes like devilled recipes

• Devilled fish
• Sausage devilled with onions and peppers.
• Sri Lankan spicy devilled Beef stir-fry. 
• Canned tuna spicy devilled stir-fry(good as a filling as well.
• Devilled Sri Lankan prawn stir-fry. 
• Devilled soya chunks stir-fry. 
• Pan-fried spicy chicken wings(Sri Lankan devil wings).

Storing

Once the stir-fry is done leave it out to cool and store in a preferably airtight glass container.

The stir-fry ingredients might stain new plastic containers. refrigerate and use within 3 days.

Freezing

Can be frozen for up to a week but I would highly recommend not freezing but use within a few days.

Reheating

Should you freeze and need to reheat, leave it stir-fry until it reaches room temperature, and warm the stir-fry over low-medium heat.

Stop food waste by

knowing your family member’s eating habits if you feel that the number of banana peppers and onions will go to waste, simply reduce it in half.

Any leftovers can be used in wraps, sandwiches, stir-fry rice, or noodles.

RECIPE DIFFICULTY- EASY

The ingredients mentioned below use standard measuring cups and spoons.

Ingredients to make devil chicken recipe

500g-750g of medium-sized chicken pieces(use chicken breast)

1 teaspoon of turmeric

1 teaspoon of red chillies powder

Salt to season

1/4 cup oil

1 tablespoon of minced ginger

1 tablespoon of minced garlic

2 large onions cut into wedges

3 medium-sized tomatoes cut into wedges

4 capsicums(banana peppers)cut into slices)substitute with bell peppers)

2 tablespoons of oyster sauce

2 tablespoons of soya sauce

4 tablespoons of tomato sauce

1 teaspoon of red chilli flakes(increase if you need more heat)

1 tablespoon of sugar(only if you need it to be slightly sweet for the kids)

How to make sri lankan devil chicken

Have all the ingredients ready.

Cut the chicken to the required size and place them in a bowl.

Place chicken in a bowl, add turmeric(1 tsp), chilli powder(1 tsp), salt(1/2 teaspoon), and combine. set aside for 15 minutes.

Place a shallow skillet or pan over medium heat, and pour 1/4 cup oil into the pan.

let the oil heat slightly and shallow fry the chicken until they turn golden brown on the edges.

You can use my air fryer chicken tender recipe to make a healthier, less-oil version.

This should take 10 minutes over low-medium heat.

Make sure not to burn yourself while frying the chicken. use medium heat for this purpose, tossing the chicken constantly so they fry evenly.

This should take 10-15 minutes.

Transfer the fried chicken to a paper towel.

Place the same pan with the remaining oil over medium heat.

Add the minced garlic and ginger(1 tbsp each)to the oil and sauté for two minutes. 

Add the onions(2 medium), capsicum(4), and tomatoes(2) to the pan.

Sauté until the capsicums turn slightly soft(should still have a crunch) over medium heat. 5-10 minutes.

Pour in the tomato sauce(4tbsp), soy sauce(2tbsp), oyster sauce(2tbsp), and chilli flakes(1tsp).

Combine and cook over medium heat. 5-7 minutes over low fire.

Once the onion and capsicum turn soft with the sauce mixture, add the chicken to the pan.

Cook for another 2 minutes over medium heat.

Cook until the sauce is thick and completely coats the chicken with a little gravy left in the bottom of the pan.

Here’s where you can make little adjustments to suit your individual tastes.

For adults, I actually increase the heat by adding red chilli sauce(do not use sriracha sauce here).

For kids, I have done the devil chicken with extra spoons of sweet chilli sauce. 

I have also added 1/4 cup thick coconut milk to make the devil chicken extra thick and to have a little gravy for my rice and curry menu.

Taste and make necessary adjustments as given above, check for salt seasoning of salt, and chill.

If you realize the devil chicken is too spicy for you, add a tablespoon of sugar if the curry is too spicy for your taste as well.

Serve warm with rice or as a party bite.

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