How to make Guizhou chili oil

Guizhou chili oil is a local specialty and can be considered a specialty product. There are two main ways to cook it. The first thing to do is to ensure the spiciness of the pepper, so the general red peppers chosen are from Sichuan or Zunyi. The second thing is that the taste of the chili oil is determined by your own taste, that is, the amount of pepper and sesame added at the end. There are two main ways to cook Guizhou's chili oil. Now I will introduce the specific steps to you.

There are two ways to cook Guizhou chili oil:

1. Ciba Oil Chili: Soak the whole dried red chili in clean water until soft, add ginger and garlic and pound them in a mortar. Then put rapeseed oil in a frying pan, with the amount of oil being twice that of the chili paste. After the oil is heated and smoke comes out without the smell of raw oil, put in the pounded chili paste and simmer over low heat. When the water is dry and the chili skin becomes crispy, add sesame seeds or pepper powder, then turn off the heat and put it in a container.

2. Dried chili oil: Add a little pepper and sesame to the dried red chili, and crush it with a mortar or food processor. Put it in a stainless steel container, then put rapeseed oil in a frying pan, twice the amount of oil. Heat the oil until it is hot and smokes, but there is no smell of raw oil, then turn off the heat. Wait for the oil temperature to drop, scoop a little oil into the stainless steel container containing the chili powder and stir the chili powder. The purpose of this step is to prevent the chili from burning when pouring the very hot oil in the next step, so use a small amount of oil, just enough to coat the chili powder with oil. Heat the remaining oil in the pan again and turn off the heat when there is less smoke. Pour all the oil into the chili powder (note: the capacity of the stainless steel container should be twice that of the chili powder), and stir with chopsticks. Just wait until the oil cools down.

These two methods are unique to Guizhou. You can add pepper powder according to your personal taste, and adding sesame seeds will make it more fragrant. The two kinds of chili oil have their own aroma and the same function, it depends on personal preference.

It is best to use dried red peppers produced in Guizhou Huaxi or Zunyi, or Sichuan. Those produced in other provinces are not spicy enough and will not be fragrant when made into chili oil.