Sri Lankan Devilled Chicken
Fried chicken tossed with onion, capsicum and chilli in a sweet, spicy, tangy sauce.
Devilled chicken is the dish people order when they want heat with flavour. Pieces of chicken are fried, then tossed in a hot wok with onion, capsicum, green chilli and a sweet, tangy sauce until everything is coated and glossy. It is sweet, spicy and sharp all at once, and it goes with almost anything on our menu.
How we cook it
We fry the chicken first so it holds up, then finish it fast over high heat with onions, peppers and chilli so the vegetables stay crunchy. The sauce ties it together: a little sweet, a good amount of heat, and a tang at the end.
Eat it with
Devilled chicken is great with rice, kottu or on its own. We cook on weekends, for pickup or Uber Eats delivery in range. HMA-certified halal.
How to get it
Tell us how hot you want it and we will cook it to match. We are a weekend kitchen, so pickup is from our Scarborough location on Saturday and Sunday, 12 to 5. If you are inside our Uber Eats delivery range, we can also drop it at your door.
- Order on Uber Eats for delivery in range.
- Call or text (647) 449-2924 to set up weekend pickup.
- Feeding a group? Ask about halal catering in Scarborough.
Devil, chilli chicken or chicken 65?
Chicken Devil ($12.99) is wok-tossed with onion and capsicum in a sweet, sour and hot paste. Chilli Chicken ($14.99) is crispy, boneless chicken in a spicy garlic sauce. Chicken 65 is spicy battered chicken bites, made for groups of 10 or more. If you want saucy and Sri Lankan, pick the devil. If you want crunch, pick chilli chicken.
Ask about our catering trays for 5 to 30 people (small feeds 5 to 8, medium 10 to 15, large 20 to 30).
Allergy notes
Some of our dishes contain egg (kottu, egg masala, watalappan), dairy (yogurt sambal), fish (maasi sambal is made with dried Maldives fish) and nuts (green pea cashew curry). If anyone has an allergy, tell us when you order and we will tell you what to avoid.
Why it is called devilled
"Devilled" is an old English cooking word for food made hot with mustard, pepper or chilli. It reached Sri Lanka in the colonial era, and the island turned it into its own style: fried meat or seafood tossed with onion, capsicum, chilli and a sweet, tangy sauce. Today devilled dishes are a fixture of Sri Lankan menus and family parties. Our devilled chicken explainer goes deeper.
The rest of the devil family
- Beef Devil, $12.99
- Boneless Mutton Devil, $14.99
- Fish Devil, Tiger Shrimp Devil and Kada (quail) Devil, priced on request for 10 or more people
- Thai Lobsters Devil, a Thai and Sri Lankan fusion, priced on request for 10 or more
If you like the chicken version, boneless mutton is the next step up in richness, and quail is the one most guests have never tried. See them all on our devil dishes page.