Chinese Chili Oil From Scratch
 
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No Chinese meal is complete without some hot chili oil, and this homemade chili oil is made with healthy, clean ingredients. If you’ve never tried homemade Chinese hot oil, you are in for a very serious treat. Just a few ingredients and 10 minutes of your time will yield a stunningly flavorful infused oil.
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Recipe type: Condiment
Cuisine: Chinese
Serves: 11/4 cups
Ingredients
  • 1 cup expeller pressed grapeseed oil (or other neutral flavored oil like avocado)
  • 2 tablespoons Gourmet Garden Lightly Dried Chili Pepper (you can add more or less according to your desired heat level)
  • 2 cinnamon sticks
  • 1 inch wide slice of orange peel with white pith removed
  • 1 teaspoon allspice berries
  • 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
  • 1 shallot, finely sliced
  • 2 cloves of garlic
Instructions
  1. In a heavy saucepan, heat all ingredients over medium heat until oil is bubbling fairly rapidly. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Cool in the pot until room temperature. Important: remove the cloves of garlic from the oil before transferring to a mason jar to store in the fridge for up to two weeks.
Recipe by The Tomato Tart at https://www.thetomatotart.com/recipe/chinese-chili-oil-scratch/