Chinese Hot Oil (La yu)

Ingredients

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

Directions

1. 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. 2

   Turn off the heat.

3. 3

   Stir the flakes into the oil.

4. 4

   Let cool.

5. 5

   You can strain the oil or leave the flakes in it.