Ginger and Shallot Oil

Name: Ginger and Shallot Oil
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons sea salt; 2 tablespoons castor sugar; 1 large knob ginger, finely diced; 2 cloves garlic; 15 ml shaohsing wine; 15 ml rice-wine vinegar; 50 ml peanut oil; 2 dried chillies; 3 spring onions, white part, with 2 cm of green left on, finely sliced

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Rockpool

By Neil Perry

Published 1998

About

Ingredients

50 ml peanut oil
2 dried chillies
3 spring onions, white part, with 2 cm of green

Sauce
Vegan

Method

Heat the peanut oil in a wok and fry the chillies until they blacken. Discard the chillies and allow the oil to cool. In a mortar and pestle crush all the other ingredients lightly. As the oil cools add to the mortar and mix well. Leave for a little while to allow the flavours to marry.