Shao Kao Chinese BBQ Spice Collection

This collection includes all three of our Shao Kao Chinese BBQ Spice Blends at a 10% discount off individual prices. 

All of China loves a good skewer of grilled meat or veggie. Our line of shao kao spices features the Chinese barbecue flavors you'll find throughout Western China—from the far west region of Xinjiang, where Muslim grillers have perfected cumin-dusted lamb skewers, to the country's southwest, where Sichuan BBQ features chilies and Sichuan pepper in abundance on all manner of meat, seafood and vegetable. 

Made for us in small batches in Chongqing—where they like their grilled foods spicy!—this is a chili-based spice line. But the three flavors have varying levels of heat. Here are the shao kao spices included in this collection and their main flavors:

• Fragrant Hot: featuring chili, cumin, Sichuan pepper. We think of this smoky, spicy, tingly blend as the classic of Western China, featuring the three main flavors that combine to make Chinese skewers unlike any other in the world of grilled foods.
• Tingly Hot: chili, Sichuan pepper (no cumin). This blend is the quintessential flavor of Chengdu and Chongqing barbecue, where chilies and Sichuan pepper rule.
• Smoky Cumin: cumin, chili (less spicy, no Sichuan pepper). This is the classic flavor of Xinjiang and other Northwest China provinces, where cumin is the magical match for lamb skewers, roasts and stir-fries.
• Shao Kao Collection: all three flavors, discounted 10% off individual prices

All of the blends are rounded out by sesame seeds, salt, sugar, msg and spices including fennel, smoked black cardamom and star anise. 

Equally great for grilling, oven roasting and air-frying, you can use these spice blends with our recipes for Sichuan shao kao and vegetarian shao kao or anywhere else you'd use a super flavorful spice seasoning or rub. 

If you want to go deep on Chinese grilling, the best tutorial and largest lineup of  recipes we've seen—everything from lamb, chicken wings and heart and pig intestines to tofu and whole fish—is in the Xi'an Famous Foods cookbook. 

Note the large size of this glass spice jar compared to most spice jars on the market. 

Source: Made for us in small batches in Chongqing, China
Size: 3 jars, each 100 grams (3.5 ounces)
Ingredients
Fragrant Hot: Xinjiang cumin, salt, Guizhou chilies, msg, da hong pao Sichuan pepper, sesame, sugar, fennel, smoked black cardamom, star anise
Tingly Hot: Guizhou chilies, salt, da hong pao Sichuan pepper, sugar, msg, sesame, fennel, smoked black cardamom, star anise
Smoky Cumin: Xinjiang cumin, salt, msg, sugar, Xinjiang chilies, sesame, fennel, smoked black cardamom, star anise
Contains: All contain sesame