Fermented Chili Sauce from Guizhou, Lao Gan Ma’s birthplace (贵州糟辣椒)

Zao Lajiao, fermented chili sauce! This style of chili sauce can be found throughout southwest China... spanning from Yunnan to Hunan (where it’s called ’duojiao’, or chopped chilis). It’s an awesome sauce to use as a base for stir-fries: just fry a bit of the chili sauce with oil, then fry whatever you want in that. Originally, we wanted to release this guy simultaneously with a Guizhou-style fried rice that uses it, but we’ve been a bit busy - will release that video next week. INGREDIENTS 1. Fresh red chilis, . Try to find a C. Annum in the ~10k SVU range. But just use what you can find. 2. Ginger, 180g. (10%) 3. Garlic, 180g. (10%) 4. Baijiu liquor (白酒), 90mL -or- vodka -or- gin. (5%) 5. Salt, 90g. (5%) 6. Sugar, 36g. (2%) For the Baijiu... if you’d like, you can pick up a bottle of Ming River, which’s the international brand of Luzhou Laojiao. Their shop’s here: AFAIK it’