What is the unique flavor of Sichuan cold spicy oil?

Sichuan was called "Land of Abundance" in ancient times. Due to the terrain, almost everything is produced except seafood. For example, livestock and poultry, domestic vegetables and game, freshwater fish and shrimp are all very rich. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Li Huanan, a scholar, recorded hundreds of delicious dishes in the book Awakening the Garden. Among them, the record of Sichuan cuisine seasoning is quite different from now. Not only are there no dishes seasoned with pepper, but even spicy spices like Sichuan pepper are rare, and the seasoning is very mild.

However, we know that Sichuanese have always been very fragrant and delicious, and there are many rich and distinctive condiments, such as Zhongba soy sauce, Baoning vinegar, Tongchuan lobster sauce, Fuling mustard tuber, Pixian watercress and Yibin sprouts. It is these special condiments that make Sichuan cuisine delicious and are loved by diners all over the world.

Cold salad is a special dish in Sichuan cuisine, and it is also the most popular and popular dish in Sichuan cuisine. When you come to Sichuan, cold dishes can be seen everywhere in the streets. Cold salad has many processing methods, complicated changes and changeable seasoning, and is deeply loved by the public. There are three treasures, spicy oil, brine and kimchi to make delicious cold dishes. The biggest source of delicious cold salad is spicy oil, which tastes mellow. Oil red, fragrant aftertaste, making people feel refreshing and spicy. Its fragrance is not heavy, but it is very rich. At the moment of contact with taste buds, the original fragrance makes people want to stop.

In fact, the production of Chili oil is very simple, with pepper and sesame oil as the main ingredients, plus spices such as pepper, pepper, star anise, fragrant leaves, angelica dahurica, galangal, clove, nutmeg and cinnamon. All kinds of spices are simple to say. When they are mixed together, their fragrance is attractive, their colors are bright, they are spicy but not dry, their fragrance is mellow and their aftertaste is long. Especially the choice of pepper, the pepper with thick meat and few seeds is better, and the addition of sesame oil and fennel increases the mellow flavor of spicy oil.