In the pantry · 13 uses
chili oil
Heat suspended in fat, which spreads it further than dry chili can. The crisp solids at the bottom are the good part; a jar poured off the top is half the ingredient.
11
dishes and drinks that need it
2
more where it is worth adding
100%
of those are under 30 min
What it is usually standing next to
Soy sauce is in 100% of the dishes that call for it — close enough to be a rule rather than a habit.
Counted off required ingredients across the whole corpus. A companion listed here is one these dishes are built from, not one we are recommending.
If you have twenty minutes
Built on it · 11
Take it out and the dish is something else. Fastest first.
Worth adding · 2
These work without it. They work better with it.