red oil
Spicy cooking condiment
Red oil is chili oil—vegetable oil infused with hot peppers, giving it a distinctive red color and spicy flavor.
It's a staple condiment in Chinese cuisine, drizzled over dumplings, noodles, and cold dishes: Add a spoonful of red oil for heat.
In industrial contexts, red oil refers to various reddish petroleum or chemical products.
- chiliCapsicum pod or stew
- SichuanSouthwestern Chinese province
- Chinese cuisineFood traditions from Asia's largest nation
- spicyHaving strong heat
- fieryIntensely hot or passionate
capsaicin · heat · drizzle · noodles · dumplings · mapo tofu · hot pot · street food · crimson · pungent · aromatic · infused · sesame · garlic · peppercorn · wok · sizzle · condiment
- Hunan-Sichuankung pao chicken, mapo tofu, Sichuan peppercorn, hot pot, twice cooked pork
- SichuanChengdu, giant panda, giant pandas, panda, pandas
- ChongqingChongqing, Yangtze River, hot pot, Three Gorges, monorail
red oilsesame oil
Pressed seed extract for cooking
peppermint oil · vegetable oil · eucalyptus oil · coconut oil
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