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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chilli
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chilli powder
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
red
▪ Garnish with chopped red chilli, grated Parmesan and parsley.
▪ Add the sun-dried tomatoes, red chilli and thinly-sliced salami.
▪ To bring cleanliness and hygiene together in the village I have found nothing better than a hot red chilli pepper.
▪ Add red pepper and chilli and saute for two minutes.
▪ Add the garlic paste, red chilli powder and turmeric and mix well.
■ NOUN
pepper
▪ To bring cleanliness and hygiene together in the village I have found nothing better than a hot red chilli pepper.
powder
▪ Mix the yogurt, coriander, cumin, turmeric, paprika, ginger, garlic salt and chilli powder.
▪ Mash with lime juice, a pinch of chilli powder, chopped herbs and seasoning for guacamole.
▪ Add the garlic paste, red chilli powder and turmeric and mix well.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Add a bit of orange peel, it you like, and a crushed dried and seeded chilli gives a nice flavour.
▪ Any thinly sliced salami works well, also cold roast meat with garlic and chilli sauce.
▪ Garnish with chopped red chilli, grated Parmesan and parsley.
▪ Heat the red kidney beans in the mixture of tomato puree, chilli sauce and lemon juice.
▪ Pour over wine, lemon juice and chilli sauce.
▪ The vinegar - one plain and one with chilli - comes in whisky bottles.
▪ They voted Premier John Major top, with his popular recipe for spicey chicken in chilli powder and Tabasco.
▪ Was that where they had been trained to scald faces with hot water and chilli?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
chilli

Chili \Chil"i\, n. [Sp. chili, chile.] A kind of red pepper. See Capsicum [Written also chilli and chile.]

Wiktionary
chilli

n. (alternative form of chili nodot=1 English) ''or'' '''(l en chile)'''''.''

WordNet
chilli
  1. n. very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency [syn: chili, chili pepper, chilly, chile]

  2. [also: chillies (pl)]

Usage examples of "chilli".

I have licked the methylanthranilate myself on the end of a bead, and I know it is bitter and slightly burny, like vinegar and chilli.

An identical array of spicy flour-thickened stews was saved from anonymity only by the exotic labels promising Madras curry, Hungarian goulash, Irish stew and Mexican chilli.

The chilli spray was mass-produced in Morocco and sublicensed from the US.

To make it you need yams, grated coconut, green plantains, chilli powder, ground black pepper, ground turmeric, cumin seeds, brown mustard seeds and some coconut oil.

Forbidden from contacting their parents, having no wish to do so anyway and knowing of no other nearby source of spiciness, they started to make their own, ordering supplies of the rarer raw ingredients - chillis, coriander, cardamom, etc.

And I hear the half-pounder with cheese, chilli and onion rings is to die for.

With so much sensory apparatus tied up with vision, he would never again be able to savour a meal properly, unless he drenched it in chilli sauce and monosodium glutamate.

The smell of fresh squid and frying sesame oil, fragrant dumplings steaming, the sharp tang of chilli paste.