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Mala Market Chili Oil and Sauce Collection (Specialties of Sichuan and Guizhou)
$50
From China's Chili Oil Masters
Long before anyone in the West decided to try their hand at manufacturing a chili oil or crisp, the masters in Sichuan and Guizhou provinces were perfecting their recipes and methods. So we went directly to the source in Sichuan and Guizhou to find the quintessential chili oils from China’s boldest cuisines. Our theory is that when you grow the highest-quality chilies and produce the best possible oil, then combine them with other local ingredients based on decades of tradition and technique, you’ll produce the very best chili oils to be had.
This collection includes four Mala Market chili oils, crisps and cooking sauces at a 10% discount off individual prices.
While all four sauces are built on a base of Guizhou chilies and roasted rapeseed oil and are moderately hot, from there they diverge greatly in both taste and texture, giving you a chili oil for every dish and every mood, both as table condiment and cooking sauce.
They include a Sichuan-style chili oil that has enough free oil for making Sichuan noodles and cold dishes; a Guizhou chili crisp that is chock-full of crunchy bits; an umami-packed black-bean sauce for use as condiment or cooking ingredient; and a mala sauce for making multiple stir-fries and dry pots.
Each of these chili sauces is made for us by a different specialist manufacturer in small batches from non-GMO ingredients and is gluten free and preservative free. Each is a generous 8 ounces—the mala sauce 11 ounces—in a world of 4-6 ounce supermarket chili crisps.
What's Included
Chengdu Crispy Chili Oil
This is a Chengdu-style chili oil made from Sichuan's favorite chilies, Sichuan pepper and roasted rapeseed oil along with crispy peanuts, sesame and garlic and hints of soy-sauce umami. Created by national-level master chefs in Sichuan, it is about half oil and half crisp so the oil can be used in Sichuan sauces for cold dishes; stir the solids into the oil to use as an everyday table condiment.
Guizhou Chili Crisp
While Sichuan is renowned for its chili oil, Guizhou Province is the home of the type of chili oil that's packed with crispy bits and nuts and is referred to as chili crisp or chili crunch in English. We can thank Lao Gan Ma for taking this style of chili sauce from Guizhou to the far corners of the world. Our chili crisp is also made in the province, but with all-premium ingredients—a blend of Guizhou's famous chilies, cold-pressed roasted rapeseed oil, crispy garlic and ginger and whole roasted peanuts.
Guizhou Black Bean Chili Oil
Both a condiment and a cooking sauce, Guizhou Black Bean Chili Oil proves what a brilliant combination spicy and umami is. Douchi, or fermented soybeans, are one of the most-loved flavorings of China because they are pure, concentrated umami. Mix douchi into a Guizhou-style chili oil and you get a readymade sauce for dressing noodles and stir-fries with minimum effort and maximum effect.
Sichuan Mala Sauce for Stir-Fry and Dry Pot
Unlike the other sauces in this collection, this one is based on Pixian doubanjiang (fermented chili bean paste) and is a cooking sauce. It also includes pickled er jing tiao chilies and Sichuan fermented soybeans (douchi), along with a slew of aromatics and spices. It was created as a sauce for Sichuan dry pot, which is a stir-fry with numerous pre-cooked ingredients of your choosing that has flavors similar to Sichuan hot pot. But this Sichuan Mala Sauce is super versatile and can be used for simple stir-fries or to flavor soups, stews and braises.
See individual product pages for a complete listing of ingredients and nutrition facts.
Storage
Refrigerate these oils and sauces once opened.
Allergens
Products in this collection include peanut, soybean and sesame.
The products are all gluten-free and preservative-free.
Some of these sauces include MSG: Monosodium glutamate has been used for decades in Chinese products and recipes. MSG is simply the salt form of glutamic acid, an amino acid that stimulates umami receptors on the tongue. Because it contains 60% less sodium than table salt, many chefs use it to intensify flavor while dramatically reducing salt content in their dishes. That is why you will find a small amount of MSG in some traditional Chinese products and Mala Market-branded sauces.
The belief in the U.S. that MSG is bad for you is based on pseudoscience, as decades of rigorous, double-blind, placebo-controlled scientific studies have repeatedly debunked the myth that MSG causes headaches, numbness or other adverse reactions. Less than 1% of the population may have mild, temporary sensitivities to large doses of MSG (which are also found naturally in tomatoes, cheeses and mushrooms).
See individual product pages for a complete listing of ingredients and nutrition facts.
