Ginger and Shallot Oil

Name: Ginger and Shallot Oil
Yield: Makes about 1½ cups.
Ingredients: 6 tablespoons peanut oil; 2 dried red chillies; 1 large knob ginger, finely diced; 1 tablespoon castor sugar; 3 tablespoons shao xing; 2 garlic cloves; 3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar; 1 tablespoon salt; 2 shallots (with 2 cm green stalk left on), finely sliced

Preparation info

Makes about
1½ cups
.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simply Asian

By Neil Perry

Published 2000

About

This simple sauce is great with master stock chicken, or fried chicken. You can also toss it through a salad for a distinctively Chinese flavour.

Ingredients

6 tablespoons peanut oil
2 dried red chillies
2 shallots (with

Sauce
Vegan

Method

Heat the peanut oil in a wok and fry the chillies until they blacken. Discard the chillies and leave the oil to cool. In a mortar with a pestle, lightly crush the remaining ingredients. Add the cooled oil to the mixture and mix well. Leave to stand for 1 hour to allow the flavours to infuse the oil.