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Recipes using chili oil?
I'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.