Chinese Hot Pot At Home
User Reviews
5
32 reviews
Excellent
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Prep Time
30 mins
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Total Time
30 mins
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Servings
6
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Course
Main Course
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Cuisine
Chinese
Chinese Hot Pot At Home
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A complete guide to hot pot covering all aspects of preparing this iconic Chinese meal at home. It helps you to throw a stress-free hot pot party.
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Ingredients
Hot pot broth (choose one or use both in a divided pot)
- hot pot broth homemade or shop-bought, spicy
- hot pot broth homemade or shop-bought, mild
Meat options
- beef choose well-marbled cuts if possible, or lamb or pork, cut into thin slices against the grain
- meatballs defrosted if frozen, precooked
- canned meat Spam, sliced
Fish & seafood options
- fish fillet e.g. halibut, catfish, cod, sea bass, pangasius, etc, boneless, thinly sliced
- Shrimp with or without skin/head
- squid sliced
- fish balls
- fish paste shaped into balls while having the hot pot, or shrimp paste
- seafood such as crabs, clams, mussels, etc, other
Soybean-based ingredient options
- tofu silken, soft or firm, sliced
- tofu frozen, defrosted and sliced
- tofu puffs deep-fried tofu
- pressed tofu sheets cut into wide strips
- dried tofu skin rehydrated beforehand
Mushroom options
- oyster mushrooms separated into small sections
- king oyster mushrooms sliced lengthways
- enoki mushrooms ends removed and torn into small bundles
- shiitake mushrooms rehydrated if in dried form
- shimeji mushrooms ends removed
Leafy green options
- Napa cabbage
- bok choy
- choy sum
- gai lan
- crown daisy Tong Hao
- water spinach
- watercress
Root vegetable options
- potato peeled and sliced
- sweet potato peeled and sliced
- daikon white radish, sliced
- lotus root sliced
Dried ingredient options
- Kelp rehydrated and cut into strips
- Wood ear mushrooms rehydrated beforehand
Noodle options
- fresh wheat noodles e.g. ramen, homemade or instant
- fresh rice noodles
- rice cakes sliced
- mung bean vermicelli pre-soaked
- sweet potato glass noodles pre-soaked
- hand-pulled noodles have the dough made, rested and cut into strips. Pull one noodle at a time and drop it into the broth straightaway.
Dumpling options
- dumplings homemade or shop-brought, preferably small-sized ones
- wontons homemade or shop-bought
Dipping sauce ingredients (mix and match based on your preference)
- light soy sauce shacha sauce is Chinese barbecue sauce
- black rice vinegar
- oyster sauce
- Shacha sauce
- sesame paste
- peanut butter
- fermented bean curd
- sesame oil
- Chilli oil
- chili powder
- ground Sichuan pepper
- garlic minced garlic; fresh chili
- Coriander
- scallions
- fresh chili
- sesame seeds toasted peanuts
- peanuts
Instructions
- Place the heat source and the pot/wok in the middle of the table. Pour in the broth. Place various food items around the pot (See note 1).
- Have the dipping sauces mixed and distributed in individual bowls. Keep some extra in case you need an adjustment or top-up during the meal.
- Turn on the heat. Once the broth comes to a boil, you may start putting food items into the broth to cook (See note 2). Fish out the cooked items and enjoy with the dipping sauce.
- The water in the broth evaporates as you eat. Top up with hot water when needed.
Notes
- There is no need to include all categories. Mix proteins, vegetables and starchy ingredients to make it a balanced meal. Or make it vegetarian/vegan friendly by excluding meat, fish and seafood.
- Different ingredients require different cooking time. Always make sure they're cooked through before consuming.
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