How to Make Hot Pot at Home
User Reviews
5
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Prep Time
1 hr
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Cook Time
1 hr
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Total Time
2 hrs
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Servings
4
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Course
Main Course, Soup
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Cuisine
Chinese
How to Make Hot Pot at Home
Description
How to Make Hot Pot at Home begins with simmering chicken and pork bones alongside white peppercorns, ginger, and green onions to create a clear yet flavorful broth. This gentle stock forms the heart of the hot pot, designed to cook thinly sliced meats like lamb or pork belly, various types of meatballs, and seafood such as shrimp or oysters. Fresh vegetables including dark leafy greens, mushrooms, root vegetables, and melon slices contribute texture, color, and subtle sweetness to the meal. Soft or firm tofu adds a silky contrast.
Cooking involves adding the ingredients to the simmering broth at the table, allowing diners to control cooking times and combinations. Each bite offers soft, tender, and fresh components that balance the understated savory base. Dipping sauces made from sesame oil, soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, and herbs bring additional layers of flavor tailored to personal preference.
This communal cooking experience is often accompanied by staples like noodles or fried rice and can be paired with drinks such as tea, fruit juice, or beer. Side dishes like fried pork or buns with condensed milk enhance the meal with crunchy or sweet elements.
Ingredients
Light chicken stock
- 1000 g chicken cut into chunks
- 250 g pork bones
- 8-10 white peppercorn
- 1 green onion 大葱, cut into small sections, long
- 1 ginger smashed, thumb-sized piece
- 5 L water
Hot Pot Ingredients
- 1 sliced meat lamb, pork belly or beef, box of
- 500 g meatballs shrimp balls, pork balls, beef balls. You can get the frozen one from the store
- 1 firm tofu or soft tofu, box of
- 250 g dark leafy greens bok choy, cabbage, snow pea leaves etc, choose the seasonal ones
- 250 g mushroom shiitake mushroom, needle mushroom and others, mixed varieties
- 300 g seafood mainly shrimp or oyster
- 400 g root vegetable peeled and cut into thin slices
- 400 g melon
Dipping sauce
- sesame oil as needed
- green onion chopped
- Coriander chopped
- garlic smashed
- salt
- light soy sauce as needed
- vinegar as needed
- sesame seeds roasted white
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
- fried pork 酥肉, Sichuan, crispy
- fried buns 金银馒头, with condensed milk
- brown sugar bread 红糖锅盔
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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