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.
Slice the pork tenderloin, mix with soy sauce and starch, and marinate for 10 minutes. Heat oil to fry bean paste, minced garlic, and dried chili peppers, add broth and bring to a boil, add the meat slices and blanch the vegetables. Pour the broth into a bowl, add minced garlic and chili powder, and pour hot oil to enhance the aroma. The meat slices are tender and tasty, the soup is spicy and mellow, and the side dishes absorb the red oil. It is hot and refreshing when you take a bite, and it is perfect with rice!
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 Korean-style chicken features chicken pieces that are deep-fried until golden brown, then coated in a signature Korean sauce—a combination of soy sauce, mirin, garlic, sesame oil, corn syrup, sugar, and dried chili flakes—that imparts a sweet, savory, and slightly spicy flavor. The texture is tantalizing: the chicken is crispy on the outside, but the sauce layer remains slippery and rich. The aromas of garlic and sesame oil blend together beautifully, while a sprinkling of fresh scallions adds freshness and a pop of color. This dish is the perfect blend of bold Korean flavors and the familiarity of fried chicken—perfect as a special snack or a fun main course.
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.)
The spicy boiled fish is super appetizing and goes well with rice. The aroma of pepper and chili pepper is overflowing. It is oily but not greasy, spicy and refreshing. The frog meat is tender. It looks spicy, but it tastes fragrant, spicy and very smooth.
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.
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.
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.