Recipes using chili oil?
15 Nov 2011 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneI'm having a craving and I've realized it is for foods made with chili oil. Besides the fact that I don't know with 100% certainty where I can buy it, I also don't know any recipes that use it off hand.
Does anybody have any uses for chili oil in cooking? The simpler the better, probably. I know it's an ingredient and that it's involved in some Chinese food and that's about it. I can definitely identify it as the dominant flavor in this one brand of instant prepackaged fake-Chinese noodles that you can buy here in Finland, but the ingredients of the packet are basically impossible to decipher further than identifying a few of the flavors (there's definitely some onions in there! And possibly ginger. I'm not great at identifying flavors. I know that I know them but it's hard to put a name to them once they're combined with other stuff).
So anyway, the one place I know for SURE I can get it is prepackaged, full of red dye #2, and not actually all that tasty except in that it contains chili oil. I'd rather explore it other contexts now that I know it's there. I do know how to use google and all, but I have had good luck with rlist advice relating to quick and easy meals before, so I thought I'd try you guys first.
Does anybody have any uses for chili oil in cooking? The simpler the better, probably. I know it's an ingredient and that it's involved in some Chinese food and that's about it. I can definitely identify it as the dominant flavor in this one brand of instant prepackaged fake-Chinese noodles that you can buy here in Finland, but the ingredients of the packet are basically impossible to decipher further than identifying a few of the flavors (there's definitely some onions in there! And possibly ginger. I'm not great at identifying flavors. I know that I know them but it's hard to put a name to them once they're combined with other stuff).
So anyway, the one place I know for SURE I can get it is prepackaged, full of red dye #2, and not actually all that tasty except in that it contains chili oil. I'd rather explore it other contexts now that I know it's there. I do know how to use google and all, but I have had good luck with rlist advice relating to quick and easy meals before, so I thought I'd try you guys first.
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Date: 15 Nov 2011 07:27 pm (UTC)I don't know if you eat/can get brown shrimps, but that's my favourite chilli oil using recipe (although recipe feels a bit strong!).
And, um, hi! I got here network browsing because my rlist seems somewhat quiet.
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Date: 15 Nov 2011 07:49 pm (UTC)So, like, if you like sauteed green beans or something, you can use half whatever you usually use and half chili oil. Or say you like noodles tossed in butter, put some chili oil in instead of butter.
You can also use it to jazz up things like -- if you have some plain hummus or something, put a swirl of chili oil on top. suddenly spicy hummus!