The Hot Pot is the most Authentic food I have ever tried and became addicted. I love most of the Asian dishes, but the Hot Pot is a magical food for me. It is a big meal, which you can eat several hours, and chat with close friends and families. Living in China widen my food culture and changed me forever now i cannot imagine life without Hotpot and Sichuan spicy dishes.
I would like to share with you a homemade hotpot recipe.
What we need
An electric oven, and if possible divided pan (especially if you prefer spicy and not spicy soup base)
Hot Pot Spice Soup Base
*2 tablespoon oil
*6 slices ginger
*10 cloves garlic
* 5-star anise
*1 tablespoon Sichuan peppercorns
*Dried red chilies as many as you wish
*1 package spicy hot pot soup base
*Bone or Chicken Broth or just water
*Coconut milk if you like Thai style (we added on one section)
Dipping sauce:
Sesame paste (we sometimes just drink the soup)
Chopped cilantro
Chopped garlic
To eat with your hot pot:
Thinly shaved beef, lamb, shrimp meat and meatballs
Tofu sheets and slices of firm tofu
Soy puffs (fried tofu puffs)
Straw mushrooms
Shiitake mushrooms
Wood ear mushrooms
Noodles
Chinese rice cakes
Bok choy
Any kind of potatoes
Napa cabbage
And my favorite vegetable lotus root
To prepare the soup base; first, we will fry 2 to 5 min the ginger, cloves garlic, star anise, Sichuan peppercorns, dried red chilies as many as you wish. The second step is to add these items on our broth with the hot pot spicy sauce and coconut cream. Then place your soup on the oven at the table, and add desired veritable or meat. In China mostly meat is served first but for us, we start with the tofu and mushroom and continue cooking other ingredients we wish.
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