Spicy Garlic Chili Paste
By Tiffy Cooks
The Chen family’s addicting Spicy Garlic Chili Paste is super quick to make at home with easy-to-find ingredients. All you need to make Spicy Garlic Chili Paste is salt, red chili, garlic, shallots, oil, ginger, and green onion; that’s it! Add this garlic chili Paste to EVERYTHING, and it will taste amazing. I will also share recipes that incorporate this chili paste, such as spicy wontons and smashed cucumber salad, in the next few days.
Ingredients
- 30 cloves Garlic minced
- 20 Red Chili minced
- 2 slices of Baby Ginger or regular Ginger peeled & minced
- 5 small Shallots peeled & minced
- 8 Green Onion cut in half
- 1 tbsp Salt
- 1 cup Oil I use grapeseed
Instructions
- Put minced garlic, minced red chili, minced baby ginger, and minced shallots in a large pan.
- Sprinkle a tablespoon of salt evenly over the ingredients. Make tiny holes throughout the tray.
- In a pot, add 1 cup of oil and add in the green onion. Turn the heat to medium, and let it cook for 5 - 7 minutes or until crispy light brown. Make sure to keep an eye out to prevent it from burning.
- Remove the green onion from the oil, and pour the oil over all the minced ingredients.
- Mix and let it sit for 30 minutes before jar.
- Noodles recipe: 2 tbsp of black vinegar, 1 tbsp of soy sauce, 1 tsp of sugar, 1 tsp of sesame seeds, and 1.5 tbsp of garlic chili paste for one serving of noodles.
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Notes
QUICK TIP, if you can’t handle spice, REMOVE THE SEEDS before mincing it; this will still give your chili paste a nice kick without adding too much heat. I did half with seeds and a half without seeds. To store, let it cool down after frying it with oil and rest in an air-tight container in the fridge for up to 1 month.
