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Chili oil is a very common ingredient in Asian cooking. It provides a wonderful spicy addition to noodles, sauces, fillings, and marinades. Once made, store this bitingly fragrant treasure in a clean glass jar and keep it in a cool place. Just use the oil whenever you want to light a spark.

Ingredients

1/2 cup of dried chili flakes, 1/4 cup of sesame oil, 2 cups of cooking oil, 2 tbsp of minced ginger, 1 star anise, 3 cloves of garlic (lightly smashed)

Method

• Combined all ingredients except the cooking oil in a clean glass jar.
• Use a heavy, non-aluminium saucepan to heat up the cooking oil with moderate temperature.
• Off the heat when the oil temperature reached about 230°F.
• Pour the hot oil into the glass jar that contained  chili flakes mixture.
• Leave it to cool or overnight then store at cool room temperature.

Chili oil – Add few pieces of dried chilies to a bottle of cooking oil and leave it to infuse for about 2 weeks. If the flavor is not up to the mark, then leave it for another week. Keep the chilies in the oil as it will enhance the color of the oil and give a decorative effect.

Garlic oil – Add a few cloves of whole garlic in a bottle of cooking oil and leave it to infuse for about 2 weeks before using. Straint the oil into a clean bottle and store in a cool place away from sunlight.

These oils can use for cooking or use as seasoning sauce.

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