Our homemade chili crisp is hot, garlicky, and just a little sweet—aka, it goes with pretty much everything. Try it drizzled over stir-fries, grain bowls, scrambled eggs, and sliced mango. If you can’t find Korean red pepper flakes, feel free to swap in an equal amount of crushed red pepper flakes.
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Chili-Garlic Crisp
Ingredients
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- 2 cups vegetable oil
- 6 shallots, thinly sliced
- 3 heads of garlic, separated into cloves, sliced
- 4 cinnamon sticks
- 8 star anise pods
- ½ cup crushed red pepper flakes
- ¼ cup Korean red pepper flakes
- 1 3-inch piece ginger, peeled, grated
- 5 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- Add oil, garlic, shallots, cinnamon, and star anise to a medium pot over medium heat. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until garlic and shallots are evenly crispy and golden brown, 25 to 30 minutes.
- In a large, heat-safe bowl, combine grated ginger, pepper flakes, soy sauce, sugar, and salt.
- Strain oil mixture through a fine mesh sieve into the bowl with ginger-pepper mixture. Let garlic and shallots cool in the sieve over a separate bowl. Once cooled, add crispy garlic and shallots into the bowl with oil and mix.
- Transfer chili crisp into small jars with airtight lids. Store in the fridge and use for up to a month (if it can last you that long!).
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Comments (2)
You have very good ideas/recipes for odd and unusual produce for cooks looking to try something new they’ve never had before- a good way to widen your use of plant based foods.
Thank you for sharing these kind words, Andrea! Have you recreated any of our recipes yet? Let us know if you have any suggestions for recipes/inspiration that you’d like us to create next! ????