Chinese Hot Oil (la Yu)

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 4 teaspoons dried chili flakes (, the same kind you put on pizza)
• 5 tablespoons vegetable oil

Recipe

• 1 heat the oil in a sauce pan until it's just hot enough so that the chile flakes sizzle like crazy when you add them- but not so hot that they burn.
• 2 turn off the heat.
• 3 stir the flakes into the oil.
• 4 let cool.
• 5 you can strain the oil or leave the flakes in it.