Friday, January 20, 2006

Szechuan chilli oil

Ingredients:
2 bowls of oil (abt 500 ml)
2 slices of old ginger
4 pieces of fresh chilli
1 big yellow onion
3 stalks of spring onion
1 tsp of brown pepper corn(szechuan peppercorn)
4 tbsp of chilli powder

Method:
1. Put 2 bowls of oil into a pot, add yellow onion and ginger to cook. Once bubbles appeared, off the fire.

2. Remove the seeds of the fresh chilli and cut into 2 pieces, then put into the cooking pot, turn on the fire, add in spring onion (do not cut them), then let it cook under low fire.

3. Add in brown pepper corn (do not wash them). Wait for the onion to be cooked until brown, then you begin to see bubble, off fire.

4. Let the bubble cool down, then add in 4 tbsp of chilli powder, remember do not stir them, wait for the powder to sink by itself.

5. Put the cooking pot aside, to let the oil cool down, once its cool, sieve it, then you can keep the chilli oil whenever you need to use.

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