Wagamama Chillies

add a little extra spice

About This Dish

Wagamama fresh chillies cost £1.20 and carry 8 kcal, a pot of sliced fresh chilli for tables that find the kitchen's idea of hot politely conservative. The simplest item on the menu, and for a particular diner the most necessary.

The pot exists because heat tolerance is personal and menus are not: the same chilli chicken ramen that warms one diner bores another, and rather than argue, the kitchen sells the argument's solution at pocket money. Fresh slices bring brightness and immediate fire where chilli oil brings depth, and they let one bowl serve two heat settings at a shared table.

The numbers are a rounding error: 8 kcal, fractions everywhere else, vegan by nature and marked so. The how much are the chillies answer joins the extras chorus at £1.20.

Strategy is the pot's whole interest: added early they cook into broth and spread their heat through the bowl; added late they stay bright ambushes in single spoonfuls. The grilled chicken ramen takes them beautifully, the mild bowls generally being the pot's best canvases, and the already fierce plates need them least, though the buldak tables that order them anyway deserve their reputation.

Order the pot alongside any mild bowl for the table's chilli lover, and let the kids' plates stay safely on the other side of the table. It is the cheapest personalisation the menu sells.

Wagamama Chillies Nutrition Facts

Per serving.

8kcalCalories0% of daily intake

0.4gProtein1% of daily intake

1.6gCarbs1% of daily intake

0.7gSugars1% of daily intake

0.1gFat0% of daily intake

0gSaturates0% of daily intake

0.4gFibre2% of daily intake

0.1gSalt2% of daily intake

Values approximate, from wagamama's published data. Updated 29 July 2026.Report an error

How to Make Chillies at Home

Not a recipe so much as a habit: keep fresh chillies ready and every mild bowl in the house gains a second setting. The knife work and storage are the whole skill.

Prep5 min

Cook0 min

Total5 min

DifficultyEasy

Servings

Ingredients

Chillies

4 red chillies, bird's eye for fire or fresno for flavour
1 tsp rice vinegar, optional, for a quick pickle

Method

0 of 4 steps

Slice on the angle Thin diagonal slices, seeds staying in for heat or scraped for mercy; the angle is presentation and surface area both.
Serve fresh or pickled Fresh beside the bowl for brightness, or ten minutes in the vinegar for a rounder heat that seasons as it burns.
Store the surplus Sliced chillies freeze flat in a bag and scatter from frozen; whole ones keep a fortnight in the fridge door.
Build the habit A pot of prepared chilli in the fridge door means every soup, noodle bowl and fried egg in the house has a hot setting. Refill weekly and the habit runs itself.

Tips

Wash hands or wear gloves; the lesson about eyes teaches itself once.
Bird's eye for the heat obsessed, fresno or standard red for chilli flavour without warfare.
Frozen slices sink into hot broth invisibly, the meal prep cheat.

Variations

Green chillies read sharper and grassier over the same dishes.
A soy quick pickle turns them into a dumpling condiment.
Charred whole in a dry pan they become a smoky garnish for donburi.

Serve with: Any mild bowl at a shared table; the pot is one bowl serving two heat settings.

Find Chillies Near You

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Chillies Questions

How much is the pot of chillies?

It costs £1.20, the extras list's standing answer. It is the cheapest personalisation the menu sells.

How hot are they?

Fresh red chilli hot, immediate and bright rather than deep; the exact fire varies with the kitchen's supply. Added late they ambush; stirred early they spread.

Why order chillies at wagamama?

Because heat tolerance is personal and the menu prints one setting per dish. The pot lets the mild bowls serve the table's chilli lover without a second order.

Which dishes take them best?

The mild canvases: grilled chicken ramen, katsu plates, the teriyaki bowls. The firecracker and buldak plates need no help, whatever their orderers believe.

Are they vegan?

Marked vegan, being sliced fresh chilli, with 8 kcal as close to nothing as the menu prints. Every column is a rounding error.