Homemade crispy chilli oil – My King Food

Ingredients

• 250 g vegetable or sunflower oil
• 2 slices fresh ginger
• 3 banana shallots (finely sliced)
• 5 cloves garlic (finely sliced)
• 3 tbsp Sichuan peppercorns
• 3 star anise
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 tsp fennel seeds
• 50 g gochugaru (Korean red pepper flakes)
• 25 g chilli flakes (or crushed dried chillies)
• ½ tbsp sweet paprika
• 2 dried bay leaves
• 2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp caster sugar