Hey guys, it's mike chen, and this is my first cooking video today
I'm going to show you guys how [to] cook something that I put into about?
90% of my Chinese dishes and about another 50% of all the American dishes that I make. What I'm talking about is the
Fundamental foundation of all Flavor the Chinese hot oil [I'm] a total spice lover
So I put this thing in basically anything I put it in my noodle soups I put it any types of soup
I put in my rice dishes almost any Chinese dish
I make this goes inside
The only thing I don't put this in is like ice cream if you guys ever been to a Chinese restaurant
Sometimes you see the hot oils on the tables and these can vary
Sometimes it's actually hot sauce not really hot oil so today what I'm talking about is actually hot oil
And I want to keep doing cooking videos for you guys and a lot [of] times in my cooking videos
I'm going to be adding a hot oil so if you know how to make hot oil now
We'll get that completely out [of] the way basically
There's
about a billion ways to cook hot oil some people put together like 20 ingredients to make their hot oil, some people use like a
Couple ingredients, you don't have to go all out to make hot oil [a] lot of it
Just depends on like what you consider taste good, [so] [I'm] just going to show you mine
I think it's pretty simple you can do it with not that many [ingredients] and even couple the ingredients
I'm putting in today is completely optional
So I think my hot oil is probably about as simple as you can get like I said my ingredients are really really simple here
I just have some vegetable oil. You can use almost any sort of oil like peanut oil
Vegetable oil you can use coconut oil olive oil the only thing you don't want to use is
Sesame oil because you really can't heat sesame oil. I have crushed red chili peppers now
I bought this at an Asian supermarket in Asian supermarkets
You'll typically find these already ground for you
Or what you can do is buy whole chili peppers and use a little food processor and just grind them yourself
So this isn't really hard to find okay now these are your optional ingredients that I like to put in mine?
Just for added Flavor
These are Sichuan
Peppercorns now these are things that if you ever go to a Sichuan restaurant and get a spicy dish that they're inside the spicy dish
And you never want to actually eat one of these, but these will give the oil a numbing flavor
So my oil is gonna be spicy and nummy yay
But you don't have to have this because some people don't really enjoy the numbing Flavor also
I have peanuts and this is purely again optional you can have peanuts or sesame or not, not anything at all because I
Like my hot oil to have little peanuts inside cause I think it tastes good!
[yeah], if you don't like peanuts got peanut allergy or if you prefer sesame or if you don't want to add anything
Then don't add anything finally
I have a little bit of salt, and I always use sea salt anything I cook for ever
I just only use sea salt
[I'll] tell you why guys first of all the regular salt obviously is like some chemical stuff and the other reason is that there is
A Chinese legend [that] [seawater] is actually formed from the tears of a buddha
so I'm eating sea salt I'm actually eating buddha tears so you can't beat buddha tears and I like the taste and
Finally and this is again purely optional
You can have a little sesame oil and you add this at the end
basically the amount of ingredients you [use] is all subjective to what you really want to achieve
so here I have about half a cup of ground pepper, and I have about two cups of
vegetable oil
So I do like a one to four ratio for my oil to my pepper because I want a lot of chili oil in my chili
Oil, if that makes sense. so here I have like a quarter of cup of peanuts because I like peanuts and
just a
Tablespoon of
This sichuan peppercorn here and later when you add the salt you only add a small pinch of salt
And maybe another tablespoon of sesame oil, [all] right guys
So we're gonna get started first you want to do is turn on your exhaust fan because this thing does get a little smoky
But since I don't want my audio quality to go down. I'm not gonna do it but you should
You take a regular pan
turn the heat up to a medium high and
Then all you got to do is
pour your oil
inside the pan
After you get your oil inside the pan take your peppercorn so all my peppercorn is going inside the oil
Now this is the most important part about cooking chili oil. Is that if you use if your oil is too hot?
It's gonna fry your peppers black and burn them so you don't want that
So what you want to do is you want to heat the oil?
To the point where you see a little smoke coming out of it. Just a little slow you'll see it
it starts to smoke a little that's all you want while my oil is heating I'm going to start mixing my hot chili pepper and
my
peanuts and salt into the container
I want to keep my hot oil in because this is not a one time
Serving thing you want to keep your hot oil somewhere, so you can use it continuously
And this is my new container you see here I
Like my Cat kitty container. This is cool. I like it
So I'm gonna Pour my hot chili pepper inside my container
And I'm going to pour my peanuts inside my container
See all that is sitting nicely in there yep
Then I'm just going to add
some sea salt
You don't want to add too much [salt] because the dish that you're adding hot oil into is
going to be
You're going to season that anyway, so see I see smoke [coming] out of my pan right now a little bit
Now what you want to do is you want to take a little stringy thing. for me. I have my hot pot
Scoop and I want to scoop out [the] numbing peppers
Clearly because when I put this inside soup, I don't really want to bite into one of these
Take them out you [can] [just] throw them away. They've done their job. They serve their purpose
Want to get all of them
Now this is my favorite part. I'm going [to] take my hot oil and put it into the mixture I have before oh
Yeah, oh, [yeah]. Oh you see that. Oh man here. We go here. We go here we go
Stir it. So it doesn't burn
That's what I'm talking about right here. Oh, it smells so good so the hot oil
immediately [cooked] [a] hot chili pepper in the peanuts. [oh] it smells so good [oh]
Man, this is great
Mmm, so there you have it
I got my hot chili oil
Guys you always want to make sure that the container you're [using] to store the chili oil is big enough to store the hot chili
oil
otherwise you know it's Gonna have an overflow and I use this massive container because I
Eat so much of this stuff. So there it is guys my hot chili oil of awesomeness
[no] this reminds me of it reminds me of the rice krispies video because I can hear it going snap crackle and [pop] in in
This whole room is smelling. [so] awesome. We do with that sesame oil is after your hot oil cools now just add
maybe like like a tablespoon of
Sesame oil, and it's Gonna give [it] a lot of sesame flavor
But don't add it when it's hot because this thing as soon as it touches anything hot it really it really loses the flavor
Right away, so anyway guys. That's my version of how to make hot chili oil
And I also have a top for my cat chili oil container. Oh
There you go, and then I can eat it right away
And I can store it and let the oil Soak up more of the hot chili, Flavor. [oh]
So good smells so good
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