干辣椒, photo 1 of 2
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Photo
Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Mercado dos Lavradores -- 2025 -- 0994
By
Dietmar Rabich
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CC BY-SA 4.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Photo credit

Photo
Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Mercado dos Lavradores -- 2025 -- 0976
By
Dietmar Rabich
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Source
Wikimedia Commons
Changes
Cropped and resized

干辣椒

乾辣椒
gānlàjiāo
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 dried chilies
  2. 2 dried chili peppers

About the ingredient

调料 Seasonings

Red chilies dried whole. Cooks fry them briefly in hot oil, often with 花椒, so the oil takes on their fragrance; in 辣子鸡 they are piled high but mostly left uneaten.

Also called  辣椒干

Examples

HSK 7-9
Chuāncài lǐ jīngcháng fàng gānlàjiāo.
Sichuan dishes often use dried chilies.
HSK 7-9
Zuò gōngbǎojīdīng yào yòng gānlàjiāo.
Kung Pao chicken is made with dried chilies.

Tips

usage
干辣椒 and 辣椒干 are the same thing. In Sichuan dishes they are fried in oil until fragrant, which brings out a scorched chili flavor.

Stroke Order

干 gān
辣 là
椒 jiāo