Chilli Oil
This recipe is used to make chilli oil, an extremely useful and tasty condiment.
Ingredients
- 50 grams chile flakes
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup peanut oil
Ingredients for 5 servings (160 g) · the original recipe
Method
- 1
Mix chile flakes and salt in a heat-proof bowl.
Stovetop - 2
Mix 1 tablespoon of the oil into the chile flake/salt mixture. This will prevent the chile from scorching when hot oil is added later.
- 3
Heat peanut oil to about 200°C (392°F). Small bubbles should form when poking a wooden chopstick into the oil.
- 4
Pour heated oil over chilli flake mixture and stir vigorously.
- 5
Allow to cool and store in a container.
Recipe from Wikibooks Cookbook, written by Wikibooks contributors. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; the ingredient list and method on this page are taken from that page and edited (its notes, tips and variations are not reproduced), and are available under the same licence. The macros, equipment tags and scaling are Ma Kitchen’s own and are not the source’s figures. Ma Kitchen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikibooks Cookbook. Copied on 2026-11-12.
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