Shelly's Recipe

How to Make Hot Pepper Chili Oil

Category: Miscellaneous

1. Wash your container (mine: glass bottle) out with hot soap and water. If you can, boil it in water to disinfect it properly.
2. Pour your oil of choice (seed, corn, peanut, olive) into a frying pan and heat the oil. Turn it off well before it gets to the smoking point.
3. Let it cool for a minute or two. Break up the dried peppers into the oil. I did not include the stems, but I think you could if you like. More than likely, it will be still quite hot and they will sizzle or cook and immediately diffuse their heat into the oil. From now on, the oil is spicy HOT!
4. Let the mixture cool to room temperature. At this point, you can strain the oil before returning it to the container. With the first batch, I removed the pepper pieces and left the seeds, and with the second batch, I strained everything. The seeds are the spiciest part of the pepper so they will help keep things nice and hot!