The secret recipe for the chef to make Chili oil, the important thing to make this is to cook the dried Chili in the pot, so that the Chili oil will be red, fragrant and not burnt. Prepare the materials first, which must be 200g of dried pepper, 8g of pepper, 2g of pepper, 1 piece of galangal, 1 star anise, 1 Amomum villosum, 1 g of lilac, 1 g of fennel and10g of sesame. Prepare a cooking pot in advance, put the prepared dried pepper into the pot, pour in appropriate cold water, boil it with strong fire, then simmer for 2min, and finally scoop up the pepper and drain it for reserve. After the dried peppers are boiled in water, the chilli oil produced will be less spicy than the sweetness produced by directly crushing the dried peppers, and the important chilli oil will be more sonorous.

Prepare a wok in advance, turn to slow fire, pour the drained dried pepper and the planned pepper, pepper, galangal, star anise, Amomum villosum, clove and fennel into the wok, stir-fry gradually until the spices are fragrant, and then take them out to cool for later use. After all the raw materials are cooled, put them into a multifunctional cooking machine and grind them into crumbs. It is not necessary to grind them too finely, otherwise it is very easy to make Chili oil smell burnt and cause poor taste. Then pour the ground raw materials into a bowl, add appropriate salt and sesame seeds, and a little bit of rice vinegar to stir evenly. Adding rice vinegar can prevent the burning when pouring oil.

Pour the cooking oil into the pot, and burn it until it starts to smoke. Take out the boiling oil with a spoon, pour it on the Chili powder for three times, and mix it with chopsticks when it is poured in. This can arouse the aroma inside the pepper and make the Chili powder more symmetrical when it is heated. At this time, a bowl of delicious Chili oil is made, and the Chili oil made in that way is delicious no matter what it is mixed. There are always a variety of cold dishes in summer. I think Chili oil is absolutely the only life of cold dishes, which can not only give off fragrance but also increase appetite. Therefore, a large jar of Chili oil will be fried in advance at this time of the year.

The chili oil made in 2022 was slightly improved compared with the previous one. The chili pepper from Fuping County was used, and the fried chili oil became fragrant, so it was not easy to be too spicy. Amomum villosum, lilac and a little pepper are added to the spice, and we can adjust it according to our own taste. Chili oil is one of the essential seasonings in many families, and it is deeply loved by everyone. Not only because it is spicy and refreshing, it can help digestion and serve meals, but also, most importantly, it can improve immunity and accelerate metabolism, and it has the function of disease prevention and treatment for many chronic diseases.