Recipes

Friday 6 March 2026

Orange and brown sugar chilli crisp

An elegant home-made version of your favourite crispy chilli oil from the Chinese supermarket

This is a fragrant variation of everyone’s favourite chilli oil. Infusing the oil with citrus zest adds a pop of orange flavour, and the brown sugar rounds things out nicely. It’s impossible to resist sloshing this over nearly everything.

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