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Well, everyone thinks Indian food is hot. Given that it isn’t, here is a place chilli-hounds can find hot food.

a bowl of black-eyed pea curry

black-eyed pea curry

Recipes for black-eyed pea curry are common across all of India. This is the Goan way. It has plenty of chilli and coconut and a touch of tomato. This dish, alsande tonak, is a robust, spicy, hot preparation.

a serving bowl of chicken xacuti

chicken xacuti

xacuti is a unique dish from Goa. It is made with sesame seeds, poppy seeds and a lot of Kashmiri chillies. It is hot, fiery and delicious.

serving bowl of chilli achaar

chilli pickle

This green chilli pickle, hari mirch ka achaar is hot and intensely chilli flavoured. It is cooked largely in the sun, with lemon juice, salt and spices.

A bowl of goan fish curry

Goan fish curry

Goan fish curry is hot and tangy. Just-cooked fish in a spicy coconut masala makes this xiti codi a great favourite.

Two pieces of mackerel, stuffed with recheado paste, in frypan

Goan fried fish

Fried hot and spicy mackerel. This simple Goan fried fish is the traditional bangda recheado.

A bowl of rajasthani red lamb curry

Rajasthani red lamb

Laal maas is a smoky, fiery, slow-cooked, hunter-style lamb dish from Rajasthan. Kashmiri chillies give a deep red colour, heat and depth to this dish - and you need a lot of them.

a jar of recheado masala

recheado paste

This is the taste of Goa. Super hot red recheado masala is used to marinate, coat or stuff into the food you are cooking.

a serving of pork vindalu with rice and a glass of lime water

vindaloo

Vindaloo is hot and has complex layers of flavours. First the pork, then the chilli, vinegar, and garlic, and then the aromatic spices over that.

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