Creative Ways to Cook with Chili oil – Recipes You Haven’t Tried
Shake up your routine with these unexpected yet delicious Chili oil recipes — fun, easy, and full of flavour.
Recipes with Chili oil
Cold shredded vegetables is a colorful, refreshing summer dish.
I like to eat cold dishes, especially cold noodles. Follow the steps to knead flour, salt and water into dough, wash the dough after it rests, and precipitate starch water. Steam the translucent and elastic cold noodles, cut the steamed gluten into small pieces. Add cucumber and carrot shreds, mix a bowl of sauce with soy sauce, aged vinegar and chili oil, and mix with the cold noodles. It is chewy and smooth, full of a sense of accomplishment. This homemade delicacy is so satisfying.
This pineapple beef salad smells so good it'll make your mouth water the moment it hits the table! The tender, bouncy beef is coated in glistening red chili oil, and the pineapple chunks are soaked in the sauce. Each bite is bursting with sweet and sour juices, followed by the spiciness of the beef. The crispness of the celery and chili peppers blends perfectly with the aroma of garlic, creating a rich and refreshing flavor profile. The beef is so tender you don't even need to chew it, and the sweet and sour pineapple balances the spiciness perfectly. It's so appetizing, you'll want to clean every last drop of sauce from the plate.
The green of shredded cucumber, the golden color of fried eggs and the whiteness of shrimps are spread on the chewy buckwheat noodles. The sauce is flavored with garlic, chili powder and sesame oil, and then added with soy sauce, vinegar and oyster sauce to enhance the flavor, sugar and salt to blend the taste, and a few drops of sesame oil and pepper oil to make the aroma more layered. The red, green and white are intertwined, and the sour, spicy and fresh fragrance bursts on the tip of the tongue. Buckwheat noodles are low in fat and high in fiber, shrimps are rich in protein, and cucumbers are refreshing and relieve greasiness. You must know how to make the soul sauce, which can be mixed with cucumbers, preserved eggs, etc.)
Cold beef tendon, appetizing, refreshing and greasy, a must-have on the summer table
Soak the velvet mushrooms and tear them into thin strips. Cut the pork belly into thin slices and fry until the oil comes out. Heat the oil and sauté the minced garlic. Add the velvet mushrooms and stir-fry until fragrant. Add the pork slices and fry together. Drizzle with soy sauce and sprinkle with chopped green onions. The mushroom meat is tender and fresh, the pork slices are fragrant but not greasy, and the sauce is wrapped with the freshness of the mushrooms. It is simple, quick and goes well with rice.
Today's Rice King: Stir-fried Carrots with Pork Belly! The steamed carrots are soft, tender, and incredibly sweet, paired with crispy pork belly—you'll never get enough rice! This is a favorite dish among Sichuan and Chongqing locals, a common sight on every family's table—a truly down-to-earth, quick, and satisfying meal with incredibly high popularity. This dish smells amazing as soon as it's served. Thick slices of carrot are steamed first, then coated in a glistening red chili oil sauce, making them incredibly tempting. The steaming process locks in the carrot's sweet juices, which burst in your mouth with the savory sauce. The rendered fat from the pork belly seeps into the carrot, its sweetness balancing the richness of the meat and adding a touch of savory flavor. The pork belly is pan-fried until crispy and fragrant, the fat glistening but not greasy, the lean meat soaked in the sauce yet tender. A bite of carrot followed by a bite of meat—the fresh aroma fills your nose, sweet and delicious, a true rice killer!
Chili peanut noodles are noodles topped with a thick sauce made from peanut butter, chili powder, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, rice vinegar, and chili garlic oil, then sprinkled with chopped garlic and scallions. The process is simple—the spices are stirred, the noodles are boiled, and then thoroughly mixed before serving—resulting in a strong, savory-spicy flavor.
The moment this bowl of Nanchang mixed rice noodles is served, the aroma fills your nostrils. Each strand of rice noodle is coated in a glistening sauce, springy and chewy, with the rich flavor of the blended sesame oil and the spiciness of the chili oil. The crispness of the dried radish, the caramelized aroma of the peanuts, and the freshness of the cilantro unfold in layers in your mouth, becoming more fragrant with each chew. Its status as a national delicacy stems from the meticulous care put into this bowl of noodles: the blended oil is the essence of vegetables and spices simmered for 15 minutes; the blended soy sauce is a savory-sweet flavor achieved by simmering rock sugar and spices; and it's paired with readily available chili oil—every seasoning is carefully blended. This seemingly simple bowl of mixed noodles embodies an ultimate pursuit of the essence of everyday life; one bite and you'll understand why it's so popular across the country.
Sichuan and Chongqing special cold noodles, both delicious and beautiful. The noodles are chewy and chewy, paired with crisp bean sprouts, sweet cucumber shreds, and crispy peanuts, with rich taste. The sauce is the soul, with bright red chili oil and spicy pepper powder as the base, soy sauce to enhance the freshness, balsamic vinegar to add acidity, minced garlic and chopped green onions to stimulate the aroma, spicy, fresh, fragrant and sour interweaving, with a rich taste. Sichuan and Chongqing tourism is hot, and cold noodles have become a must-try delicacy, especially in the bustling food square, where bowls of cold noodles are placed on the stalls, and the noodles are piled into a small mountain, with red, green, yellow and white staggered, and the appearance is eye-catching. Tourists sit around and taste it, sweating from the spiciness but still unable to stop, becoming a bright business card for Sichuan and Chongqing's food culture.