Make Your Own Red Chili and Garlic Oil
- 1 Olive oil (small bottle)
- 5 Red chili peppers
- 1 clove Garlic
- Cut the garlic lengthwise, remove the core, and slice thinly.
- Cut off the tops of the chili peppers with scissors, and make a cut in the middle to remove the seeds.
- Cut them into thin rounds with scissors.
- Pour the olive oil, chili peppers and garlic into a deep frying pan, and heat over low heat.
- Turn off the heat just before the garlic turns golden brown.
- The residual heat will continue cooking the mixture.
- While the oil is cooling, the garlic will turn dark, as shown in this photo.
- When it's cooled completely, pour the mixture back into the bottle.
- It's not so spicy when it's freshly made.
- There are various shapes of olive oil bottles, and the one I bought this time had a plastic cap like this one.
- I couldn't take this off, and I didn't have a funnel on hand...
- After much agonizing, I cut off a corner of a small plastic bag, put the opened corner into the bottle, and poured in the oil through the plastic bag.
- The garlic and chili didn't go in easily, so I pushed them into the bottle with a chopstick.
- It went surprisingly well.
- Apparently, the spiciness will increase starting the next day, and the oil will become spicier and redder as time goes on.
- I'm not sure how long it can be stored, but K-mama said she made hers a while ago.
- The chili peppers I used were about 10 cm long.
- They are probably 2-3 times longer than average-sized chili peppers.
- I used 2 of those, making the oil mildly spicy.
- I drizzled this oil over a salad, and it was super delicious.
- It's great for freshly boiled pasta.
- It was also delicious with a deep-fried dish.
olive oil, red chili peppers, clove garlic
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/168791-make-your-own-red-chili-and-garlic-oil (may not work)