Eating in China
Clear pale golden cooking oil in a small plain bowl.

Peanut oil

花生油Huāshēng yóu

Peanut-derived cooking oil, with flavor ranging from light to distinctly nutty.

Type
Cooking fats and oils

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Peanut-derived cooking oil, with flavor ranging from light to distinctly nutty.

In the kitchen

Frying oil for Wuzhou paper-wrapped chicken and an addition to Nanning dry-noodle dressing.

Refined and unrefined roasted oils are different products; roasted forms can be more aromatic.

Ask about this ingredient

这道菜里有花生油吗?

Does this dish contain Peanut oil?

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