Home made chilli oil

The other day when I was researching recipes I came across homemade chilli oil. For some reason I have never really thought about making my own but as I read the recipe I knew I wouldn’t be able to resist making some.
You can find the original recipe here. It is a great blog, The Woks of Life.
I did a couple of tweaks to the recipe and you can find my version below.
We had a bumper chili crop this year. I dried most of them and I got my spice grinder out.
Homemade chilli oil
Preparation time 15 minutes
Cooking time 30 mins + 5 minutes for cooling
Makes 3 dl or 1 ½ cup
Ingredients
- 3 dl vegetable oil, I used rapeseed oil
- 5 star anise
- 3 tbsp Sichuan peppercorns
- 3 fresh bay leaves
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 tbsp fennel seeds
- 5 cloves
- 1 heaped tsp sea salt
- 1 1/2 dl or 3/4 cup crushed chilli
Place the oil, bay leaves, Sichuan peppercorns, fennel seeds, the cinnamon stick, star anise and cloves in a pan and gently bring the oil to simmer.
Let the oil simmer for 30 minutes.
Crush the chillis and place in a heat proof bowl. Add the sea salt.
Let the oil cool for 5 minutes and strain through a fine mesh sieve on to the chilli flakes and the sea salt.
Pour the chilli and the oil in to an air tight jar and let cool completely.
Keep in the fridge, it will keep up to 6 months. The oil had a nice kick even before it cooled down and I couldn’t resist trying some whilst still warm.
I had some scallops that I pan fried in butter for a couple of minutes and I then added dill and a teaspoon of the oil.
It was delicious and I can’t wait to use it more, it is addictive!
cool Petra, I think I’ll try this. ❤
hi Jack
Happy New year!
I hope you will, it is addictive! 🙂
Yuuuum!
hi Nell
Thanks for stopping by! Warming, it is addictive, I keep spooning it on everything! 🙂
This recipe sounds so good! You’ve used wonderful spices which sound really nice together!
hi Monika
The oil is hot but you can still taste all the spices, quite amazing 🙂
Wow Petra my husband will love this – he makes chilli oil with simply olive oil and chilli so I’ll be sharing your extravagant version with him!
hi Laura
If he loves chilli I am sure this will be right up his street. It was so easy to make as well, I might have to do a double batch next time as I have it with everything at the moment 🙂
I’ve added it to his to-do list Petra!
Yes! I want to make this 😀😀
hello Elaine
I hope you do! It was so easy and an amazing flavor! It goes with pretty much everything as well as a bonus 🙂
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I will try this recipe, we love spicy chili!
Hello, I love this oil and can’t stop putting it on pretty much everything! I hope you make it and that you will like it as much as I do 🙂