Hello everyone, I am Xiao Gaojie.
Today we make some crispy chili peppers
Dried chili peppers, regular spiciness is OK
Don't buy super spicy ones
cut the pepper head with scissors
Then cut into two to three parts
Finally cut the pepper tail open
so the heat can be distributed evenly on the chili
Then separate the seeds
First use hot water to soak for 30 minutes
Remove some spicy flavor by soaking
A little more water, you can remove as much spiciness as possible
While soaking in water, let’s fry some peanuts.
Cool oil
heat up the oil first with high heat
when bubbles start come out, turn the heat on low, and fry for 7-8 minutes
when the color turn light yellow, take them out
If the color is darker than light yellow, your peanuts will have a burnt bitter taste
Add a little salt, season with chili oil
this is a dish in itself.
Prepare some sesame now
Raw sesame seeds, and corn starch
a little salt and a little bit of sugar
Stir well
Now the chili is ready for next step
We will boil the chili peppers
to further remove the spicy taste
a little more water
add into cold water
Simmer for five minutes
After these two steps,
the chili shouldn't taste spicy
When take chili out of the water, drain it
until no more water drip down
Because we need to stick sesame in the next step, we don't need extra water.
Pour sesame seeds
Use your hand like this
Gently flip it from bottom
You see, it’s actually quite interesting.
After a while, this sesame automatically ran inside of the chili peppers
Don't fill it individually, nor press it
Just gently shake it
Let the sesame loosely stick inside
If the sesame in the pepper is too dense, the hot oil can't get in.
then it becomes hard to fry the inside
This step is critical
After the sesame seeds are in the chili pepper, there are still some left.
Now we stick the remaining sesame to the outside of the pepper.
A little bit water and a little egg white are enough.
egg white works better to stick the sesame
Little by little add egg white water
Until you can't see the dry sesame seeds
test the oil temperature first
Throw in, there are bubbles, but it doesn't come up right away
Probably the oil temperature is 140 degrees Celsius
lowest heat. It’s about seven or eight minutes.
sesame seeds turn light yellow
After cooling, pour into the bowl
You listen to this sound and know that it is very crisp.
Stir in fried peanuts
This dish is ready
take a look
There are a lot of sesame sticking inside and outside the pepper.
And these sesame seeds are loosely glued together.
I squeeze it open
You can see that it is very crispy
You actually taste the crispy sesame
with a little spiciness from the chili pepper
Thank you for watching, I am Xiao Gaojie. We will see you next time ^^