Chilli Flake Flaked Chilli add heat and colour to a dish These are a combination of mixed dried chillies that have been crushed to keep a stronger more lasting flavour. Crushed chilli is handy not just for mixing into your cooking, it is also great to add to pickles and chutneys and dips. One customer bought some crushed chilli to grow the seeds and found four different varieties of chilli in just 20 seeds that sprouted.