菜籽油 (càizǐyóu) · rapeseed oil, canola oil

Measure Word

一瓶菜籽油 píng

Meanings

1 rapeseed oil
2 canola oil

About the ingredient

调料 Seasonings

Oil pressed from rapeseed. Traditional Chinese rapeseed oil is dark, with a strong smell of its own, and is the basic oil of Sichuan cooking, fine for deep-frying; refined bottles are pale and mild.

Also called 菜油

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Examples

HSK 5

菜籽油加热后有特殊的香味。

Càizǐyóu jiārè hòu yǒu tèshū de xiāngwèi.

Rapeseed oil gives off a distinctive aroma when heated.

HSK 7-9

四川菜很多都用菜籽油。

Sìchuān cài hěnduō dōu yòng càizǐyóu.

Many Sichuan dishes are cooked with rapeseed oil.

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culture

Pressed from rapeseed (菜籽 = vegetable seed, specifically 油菜 oilseed rape). The dominant cooking oil across western China. Sichuan and Guizhou cuisine in particular use it raw-pressed (生菜油) for its grassy, slightly bitter punch.