Spice it up: 15 chilli oil recipes you need to try out, stat

Just listen to the crunch that these roasted potatoes make when you bite into them! Any spiciness in this dish is offset by the honey used in this sauce, making the potatoes sweet, spicy and savoury all at once.

This delicious Korean-style stew is best enjoyed on a cold rainy day. The vegetarian recipe has tofu, egg and mushrooms, but you can easily make it more substantial by throwing in some meat or rice cakes.

Love creamy pasta but hate how it gets cloying after a while? Try this pink sauce pasta with chilli oil, which helps cut into the creaminess of the pasta sauce. You’ll polish off the pasta in record time!

Enjoy this chilled chilli oil cucumber salad as an appetiser or a midday snack. It’s so easy to make, as there’s zero cooking involved. Just slice the cucumbers, add seasoning, then mix and the salad is ready to be served.

Another simple snack you can make is silken tofu topped with chilli oil. You can enjoy it chilled, so all you have to do is pour the oil on the tofu. Or, heat up the oil and pour it over for a satisfying contrast between hot and cold.

Garlic lovers, this one’s for you. This garlicky spicy twist on the classic Italian dish is so easy and so delicious.

What do you get when you add a hint of Chinese influence to cilbir, an iconic Turkish breakfast dish? You’ll get chilli oil cilbir — where the chilli butter typically used in this dish is traded for chilli oil. Don’t worry about it being too spicy, as the tartness of the yogurt helps with the spiciness.

If you think yogurt, eggs and chilli oil are an odd combination, let’s just say… don’t knock it till you try it.

Another quick and easy noodle recipe, this one calls for noodles of your choice to be tossed with some simple ingredients that you probably already have lying around at home, like scallions, garlic, soy sauce and sesame oil.

We’re loving this unusual decadent aioli that swaps out the usual olive oil for chilli oil, and adds garlic for extra flavour. Enjoy it over some toast, drizzle it over some crisp fries or use as a dip.

Din Tai Fung, who? You can recreate the popular appetiser from Din Tai Fung in the comfort of your own home — all you need is some wontons (even the frozen ones will do) and chilli oil.

Switch up classic onsen eggs by adding some chilli oil and devouring it over a bed of fluffy warm rice. For additional flavour, add some Japanese mayonnaise and sesame oil.

If you’re a fan of tomato egg dishes, you’ll dig this tomato chilli oil ramen. The noodles are so full of flavour, given that the eggy ramen contains the sweetness of tomato, spiciness of chilli oil and savouriness of the ramen flavouring.

Possibly the easiest cooked recipe on this list, simply use chilli oil in lieu of regular oil when frying your sunny side up. With the savouriness of the chilli oil, you won’t even have to add any more seasoning.

You can even top your mashed avo toast with these eggs, and you have a Chinese spin on a Western millennial breakfast staple.

These crunchy and chewy chilli oil enoki mushroom bacon rolls are so delicious, we recommend that you don’t share them with someone, lest you end up fighting over the last piece!

Hearty and comforting, this aromatic chilli oil fried rice can easily be altered to your liking. Add luncheon, mushrooms, or meat, it’s up to you to make it yours.