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Chilli Oil

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Sauce

Tags: easy, recipes for sauces and condiments, recipes using chile flake, recipes using peanut oil, recipes using salt, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AChilli_Oil)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AChilli%20Oil&oldid=4530485

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 50 grams chile flakes
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup peanut oil

Directions

  1. Mix chile flakes and salt in a heat-proof bowl.
  2. Mix 1 tablespoon of the oil into the chile flake/salt mixture. This will prevent the chile from scorching when hot oil is added later.
  3. Heat peanut oil to about 200°C (392°F). Small bubbles should form when poking a wooden chopstick into the oil.
  4. Pour heated oil over chilli flake mixture and stir vigorously.
  5. Allow to cool and store in a container.

Notes

Various dried spices may be added to the oil when it is heating up. Suggestions include whole sichuan peppers and star anise. Once oil is brought to temperature, strain out the solids prior to pouring over the chile flake mixture.

Peanut oil can be substituted with other oils that have a high smoke point.