How to make the best fried chili oil?

As the name suggests, chili oil is made by deep-frying chili peppers. It may seem that there are not many steps, but the process is very particular. If you make a mistake in one step, the chili oil may become very unpalatable. So, how to make chili oil the most fragrant? This requires adding pepper, sesame seeds, peanuts and other ingredients to the chili. The chili oil made with these ingredients is mouth-watering!

Preparation: High-quality chili powder, pepper, sesame seeds, salt, and preferably some fried peanuts. Mix them and put them in a container that is not afraid of heat. Chili powder is the most important, the others are ingredients, use as much as you like

Production:

1. Heat a pot of oil (the oil should smoke), turn off the heat and let it sit for a while.

2. Then slowly pour the hot oil into the prepared chili powder, stirring the chili powder evenly with chopsticks while pouring (Tip: put a rag under the container to prevent the container from moving).

3. It is better to use more oil rather than less. The chili powder should be completely covered after cooking.

The choice of oil is very important. Generally, soybean oil (rapeseed oil) + sesame oil is used to fry chili oil. This kind of chili oil has a good color.

Then comes the topping: star anise. clove. Galangal. Bay leaves. Cinnamon. A little Sichuan peppercorns (the amount of Sichuan peppercorns depends on personal taste, if you like it spicy, add more).

It is best to grind these seasonings into powder and put them together with chili powder (if conditions are not available, soak these ingredients in cold water to allow the seasonings to fully release their flavor). Scallion segments. Some slices of ginger. Sesame seeds (peeled ones are best) and fried crushed peanuts (fried peanuts into pieces). Salt and a little MSG.

Now turn on the fire: first add soybean oil or rapeseed oil, and when the oil is cool, add the onion and ginger into the pot. Cook on low heat (it must be on low heat). If the seasoning is not ground, put the soaked seasoning into the oil. After the oil is slowly heated and the ingredients have an aroma (be careful not to burn them), remove the ingredients.

Then boil the oil over high heat, making sure the oil is burned through so that the rapeseed oil tastes good. Then turn off the heat and when the oil temperature drops to 60% hot, add sesame oil (the amount depends on personal taste, those who don’t like the taste of sesame oil can skip this step), chili powder, sesame seeds and peanuts.