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Devilled Chicken

Roshani Wickramasinghe’s mother’s devilled chicken combines fried chicken pieces with a sweet, tangy chilli sauce.

Devilled Chicken — illustrative food image

About Devilled Chicken

Roshani Wickramasinghe’s mother’s devilled chicken combines fried chicken pieces with a sweet, tangy chilli sauce. Large pieces of onion and banana pepper give this Sri Lankan dish its vegetable contrast.

Garlic, ginger, chilli flakes and ketchup provide the sauce’s assertive flavour. The chicken has a seasoned coating, with optional tomato chunks and a glossier sauce among the author’s offered additions.

Yellow rice, creamy red lentil curry, eggplant moju and salad are suggested accompaniments. They bring aromatic rice, soft lentils and sweet-sour eggplant alongside the richly coated chicken pieces.

Allergens in this recipe

Optional additions: Milk, Cashew, Fish.

Other allergen details are unconfirmed.

Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.

Ingredients in Devilled Chicken

Roshani Wickramasinghe’s mother’s deep-fried devilled chicken.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.

  • Bone-in chicken thigh and leg pieces: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual21 preferred thigh/leg meat; broader combined chicken-leg candidate, source also permits other pieces.
  • Chilli powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Ground black pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Turmeric powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Lime juice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual84 lime chosen from lemon/lime alternative.
  • Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Cooking oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual93/139 marinade/wok plus explicitly offered mother's deepfry23; exact oil species unprovided.
  • Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Fresh ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Sri Lankan chilli paste (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual25 explicit omission offered, prepared formula unprovided, no inferred shrimp/soy.
  • Chilli flakes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Tomato ketchup: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual109 selected over chilli sauce; prepared formula unprovided.
  • Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual115/142 sauce and optional slurry134.
  • Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Banana peppers: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual125 selected over Hungarian wax; exact catalogue identity not established.
  • Red onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Cornstarch (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual134–145 explicit optional slurry.
  • Tomato chunks (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual145 explicit optional addition.
  • Keeri Samba rice (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own yellowrice16–18 mother's actually offered variety; broader rice mapping.
  • Garlic (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own yellowrice79.
  • Ginger (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own yellowrice81.
  • Butter (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own yellowrice84 ordinary dairy butter confirms Milk.
  • Cardamom pods (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own yellowrice86/115 pods; colour/species unprovided.
  • Whole cloves (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own yellowrice88.
  • Black peppercorns (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own yellowrice90.
  • Turmeric powder (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own yellowrice95.
  • Curry leaves (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own yellowrice97.
  • Pandan leaf (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own yellowrice99.
  • Onion (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own yellowrice104.
  • Water (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own yellowrice21 actually offered instead of stock107, plus ricewash115.
  • Unsweetened coconut cream (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own yellowrice112 cream selected over thick coconut milk, not dairy.
  • Salt (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: source-offered optional/conditional addition.. Own yellowrice120 add only if needed.
  • Prepared fried onions (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own yellowrice124, full frying medium/formula unprovided, no own written component link. Exact registry candidate unavailable; not silently mapped to fried shallots.
  • Prepared fried cashews (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own yellowrice124 named cashews confirm Cashew; exact frying medium unprovided.
  • Peas (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: source-offered optional/conditional addition.. Own yellowrice124 explicitly optional.
  • Red lentils (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own creamy parippu62.
  • Onion (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own parippu67.
  • Green chillies (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own parippu69, exact botanical species unprovided.
  • Garlic (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own parippu71.
  • Curry leaves (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own parippu73.
  • Pandan leaf (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own parippu75.
  • Chilli powder (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own parippu80.
  • Coriander seeds (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: source-offered optional/conditional addition.. Own parippu optional powder27–29/131, own linked redchicken source27 full formula; not all chicken-curry foods.
  • Cumin seeds (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: source-offered optional/conditional addition.. Same actual own linked three-spice powder27.
  • Fennel seeds (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: source-offered optional/conditional addition.. Same actual own linked three-spice powder27.
  • Turmeric powder (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own parippu91.
  • Salt (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own parippu96.
  • Coconut milk (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own parippu100/132, not dairy.
  • Water (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own parippu131 soaking/cooking water.
  • Asian eggplant (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own moju77, broader eggplant candidate.
  • Turmeric powder (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own moju82.
  • Asian shallots (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own moju84 selected over pearl onions.
  • Deep-frying oil (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own moju85/126–129 eggplant fry/shallot oilblanch; exact oil species unprovided.
  • Onion (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own moju90.
  • Green chillies (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own moju92 required sauce chilli;136 also offers optional extra oilblanched green chilli, same food.
  • Curry leaves (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own moju94.
  • Maldive fish flakes (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own moju100 named prepared dried fish confirms Fish, exact species/product formula unprovided.
  • Chilli flakes (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own moju103.
  • Tomato ketchup (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own moju106 prepared formula unprovided.
  • White vinegar (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own moju109 generic vinegar resolved by explicit method133 whitevinegar.
  • Sugar (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own moju115.
  • Salt (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own moju120.
  • Coconut oil (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Own moju123/131 sauce oil distinct from unspecified frying oil.
  • Prepared salad (optional): Optional serving accompaniment from actual primary11–19. Within this component: required named food in the offered accompaniment recipe.. Actual main17 unlinked generic salad, full formula/ingredients unknown, not invented tomato/cucumber menu.

Origins & food traditions

Sri Lanka association in the attributed source; no exclusive invention claim.

Countries

  • Sri Lanka
  • Sri LankaCatalogue link pending review

Cuisines & regions

AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.

Sources & references
  1. Sri Lankan Devilled Chicken — Roshani Wickramasinghe, Hungry Lankan
  2. Easy Sri Lankan Yellow Rice — Roshani Wickramasinghe, Hungry Lankan
  3. Red Lentil Curry (In three ways) — Roshani Wickramasinghe, Hungry Lankan
  4. Sri Lankan Eggplant Moju — Roshani Wickramasinghe, Hungry Lankan
  5. Sri Lankan Red Chicken Curry: curry-powder formula — Roshani Wickramasinghe, Hungry Lankan