Chillies in oil

Name: Chillies in oil
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 5 tablespoons vegetable oil; 4 large, dried red chillies; 2 tablespoons white caster sugar; 8 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped; 3 red shallots, peeled and finely chopped; 1 teaspoon salt

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Keith Floyd's Thai Food

By Keith Floyd

Published 2006

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Ingredients

5 tablespoons vegetable oil
8 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped
3 red shallots

Asia
Thailand
Preserve
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Heat the oil in a wok or frying pan and fry the garlic until just turning brown, then remove and put to one side.
Do the same with the shallots.
Fry the chillies for a couple of minutes, then remove from the pan and, using a pestle and mortar, pound together with the shallots and garlic to a paste.
Reheat the oil (just to warm), add the pounded