Grammy's Kitchen · Chili · Homemade Spicy Chili Crisp
One of 163 chili recipes we measured
from www.seriouseats.com
It ranks #1 of 163 for gravy quality among the chili recipes we compared. 28 cooks on www.seriouseats.com rate it 4.6★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 163.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 0% | 23% |
| fat | 0% | 1% |
| aromatics | 0% | 16% |
| salt | 0% | 0% |
| vegetables and beans | 0% | 58% |
| collagen idx | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| marbling idx | 0.0 | 0.6 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 27 g | 27g (1 cup) dried árbol chiles, stems removed (see note) |
| 20 g | 20g (3/4 cup) dried chiles japones, stems removed (see note) |
| 25 g | 25g (3/4 cup) dried Kashmiri red chiles, stems removed (see note) |
| 50 g | 1/2 cup (50g) roasted, salted peanuts, chopped |
| 30 g | 2-inch piece (30g) fresh ginger, sliced into thin matchsticks |
| 3 pieces whole star anise | |
| 2 g | 2 red or black cardamom pods, split in half |
| 28 g | 3 tablespoons (28g) freshly ground Sichuan peppercorn (see note) |
| 12 g | 3 tablespoons (12g) porcini or shiitake mushroom powder |
| 20 g | 2 tablespoons (20g) sugar |
| 30 g | 5 teaspoons (30g) Diamond Crystal kosher salt; for table salt, use about half as much by volume or the same by weight |
| 6 g | 2 teaspoons (6g) freshly ground cumin |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon (4g) MSG (optional) |
| 2 g | 3/4 teaspoon (2g) freshly ground black pepper |
| 500 g | 2 1/2 cups (500g) peanut oil, or any other neutral oil |
| 200 g | 2 cups (200g) thinly sliced shallots (about 1mm thick; see note) |
| 65 g | 3/4 cup (65g) thinly sliced garlic (about 1mm thick; see note) |
Method: 5 steps, published by www.seriouseats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“It's too good. Far too good. There's a reason people here are doubling and tripling the recipe. An excellent base to which I made the following modifications:- Replaced the peanuts with a mix of black and white sesame seeds- Probably doubled the amount of shal” — a cook, 5★
“So so good. I used a mix of arbol, new mexico, japones, and guajillo chilis. Deseeded them and put them in my food processor. I like spicy food but not crazy spicy flavors and this was perfect. I would not go any more or less spicy. Peeling garlic was a pain a” — a cook, 5★