How to Make Hot Pot at Home
How to make Chinese hot pot at home. Recipe listed as a hot pot party for 4 people
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Ingredients
- 1 package of hot pot soup base
Light chicken stock
- 1000 g chicken cut into chunks
- 250 g pork bones
- 8-10 white peppercorn
- 1 long green onion 大葱, cut into small sections
- 1 thumb ginger smashed
- 5 L water
Hot Pot Ingredients
- 1 box of sliced meat lamb, pork belly or beef
- 500 g meatballs shrimp balls, pork balls, beef balls. You can get the frozen one from the store
- 1 box of regular firm tofu or soft tofu
- 250 g dark leafy vegetables bok choy, cabbage, snow pea leaves etc, choose the seasonal ones
- 250 g mixed mushrooms shiitake mushroom, needle mushroom and others
- 300 g seafood mainly shrimp or oyster
- 400 g root vegetable and melons peeled and cut into thin slices
Dipping sauce
- Sesame oil as needed
- Chopped green onion
- Chopped coriander
- smashed garlic
- Salt
- Light soy sauce as needed
- Vinegar as needed
- Roasted white sesame seeds
Staple food
- 200 g noodles freshly handmade noodles or glass noodles
- Chinese fried rice for serving
Drinks
- corn milk
- fruit juice watermelon juice, smoothie
- tea
- beer
Side ingredients
Instructions
Cook the light stock
- In a large pot with water, add chicken, pig bones, white peppercorn, long green onion and ginger. Bring to a boiling and skim any floats on the surface. Slow down the fire and continue simmer for 1 hour.
Prepare the ingredients
- Cut darky leafy vegetable into small pieces. Peel the root vegetable and melons and cut into thin slices.
- Remove the hard ends of mushrooms and break the large pieces into smaller ones.
- Open tofu, frozen balls and hot pot meat slices.
Prepare the dipping sauce
- Prepare all the seasonings for the dipping sauces. Finely chop green onion and coriander.
Assemble hot pot
- Place all the content from a hot pot soup base package in your serving pot. Add light chicken stock (around 2.5L to 4L ) made in previous step. Add 2-3 sections of long green onion and continue with your hot pot party.
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