Chili Oil

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 whole chile
• extra virgin olive oil

Recipe

• 1 put chillies and any other bits and bobs you have lying around- i use whole cloves of garlic, and sprigs of rosemary- in an air-tight bottle.
• 2 fill up the bottle to the top with olive oil.
• 3 i use extra virgin, but it's really not necessary- it's just a taste thing.
• 4 to give the oil a bit of a helping hand i add ground dried chillies to the oil as well- this brings the flavour on sooner.
• 5 the oil is ready when it is hot enough for your taste.
• 6 usually 2-3 weeks.
• 7 the great thing about flavoured oils like this is that if the oil gets too hot, you can just'water' it down by adding more olive oil.