Chili Crisp
This Chili Crisp recipe is easily one of my top recipes of the year…or maybe ever. I put a spoonful on just about everything. Trust me—it crushes the store-bought version you’ve been buying.
Ingredients
- 700-750 g peanut oil
- 200 g shallot, sliced (2-3 large)
- 75 g garlic, sliced (15 cloves)
- 100 g ginger, sliced (1 large knob)
- 6 pods star anise
- 60 g cinnamon sticks
- 60 g gochugaru , separated into 2 – 30g/¼ cup portions
- 30 g chili flake
- 15 g sesame seeds
- 1-2 g szechuan peppercorn, ground
- 75 g peanuts, chopped and sifted
- 40 g honey
- 5 g MSG
- 35 g kosher salt
- 3 g fish sauce
- 25 g soy sauce
Instructions
- Using a mandolin, keeping them separate, slice garlic and shallots to ⅛"/0.3cm.
- Heat peanut oil to 300°F / 150°C.
- Fry sliced garlic for 90 seconds until about it is 80% golden brown and remove it from the oil and place on a sheet tray lined with a paper towel. You DO NOT want any dark brown bits, these will be bitter. It is better to pull the garlic a little earlier than later.
- Bring the oil back up to 300℉ and fry the shallots for 5-6 Minutes until golden brown, stiffing frequently. move to paper towel with garlic
- Heat oil back up to 325°F / 160°C and add star anise, cinnamon and ginger. Cook until ginger is golden brown, about 5-10 minutes and pour over 30g gochugaru and let it sit for 5 minutes. Strain oil back into the pot.
- Reheat the oil to 325°F and pour over remaining gochugaru, chili flake, szechuan peppercorn and sesame seeds. Infuse for 10 Minutes.
- Once infused, stir in peanuts, salt, honey, msg, fried shallots, and fried garlic. Be sure to crush garlic and shallots in your hand before adding them to the mixture.
- Let the chili crisp cool to room temperature, place in containers and refrigerate (keeps 4-5 weeks in fridge at least)
Be careful, mandolins are dangerous, please wear a cut glove or use a knife. It will be slower and less consistent but if you do not have much experience using a mandolin, then its better than getting an ouchie on your hand.
Be sure that whatever pan you use to heat the peanut oil in does not get filled more than halfway by the oil.
Make sure you are pouring the oil into a heat resistant bowl or container for these steps!
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I do love this recipe. Love the inclusion of cinnamon sticks. It was a little too spicy for me, though, so I’m going to make another half batch and include everything but the chili flakes, hoping to tone down the heat by mixing in to the first. Then I’ll have enough to share with my friends! But when I make it again (in 2 years when I’ve finished this first batch), I’d cut down on the chili flakes. I also didn’t fry my shallots and garlic long enough the first time, so next time I’ll know!
So Good. Thank you for sharing your recipe. Very easy to follow. I found a good hack to boil vinegar on stove which helps with the hot oil smell in my kitchen
My gochugaru is pretty mild but awesome flavor will probably put double in next time.
Over all recipe is awesome my family loves it