How to Make Hot Pot at Home

Ingredients

• 1 package of hot pot soup base
• 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
• 1 box of slice d 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 slice s)
• Sesame oil as needed
• Chopped green onion
• Chopped coriander
• smashed garlic
• Salt
• Light soy sauce as needed
• Vinegar as needed
• Roasted white sesame seeds
• 200 g noodles (freshly handmade noodles or glass noodles)
• Chinese fried rice for serving
• corn milk
• fruit juice (watermelon juice, smoothie)
• tea
• beer
• Sichuan crispy fried pork (酥肉)
• Fried buns with condensed milk (金银馒头)
• Brown sugar bread (红糖锅盔)

Instructions

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2. Bring to a boiling and skim any floats on the surface.
3. Slow down the fire and continue simmer for 1 hour.', 'name': 'In a large pot with water, add chicken, pig bones, white peppercorn, long green onion and ginger.
4. Slow down the fire and continue simmer for 1 hour.', 'url': 'https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/hot pot at home/#wprm recipe 17385 step 0 0'}]}
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6. 1'}, {'@type': 'HowToStep', 'text': 'Open tofu, frozen balls and hot pot meat slices.', 'name': 'Open tofu, frozen balls and hot pot meat slices.', 'url': 'https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/hot pot at home/#wprm recipe 17385
7. 2'}]}
8. {'@type': 'HowToSection', 'name': 'Prepare the dipping sauce', 'itemListElement': [{'@type': 'HowToStep', 'text': 'Prepare all the seasonings for the dipping sauces. Finely chop green onion and coriander.', 'name': 'Prepare all the seasonings for the dipping sauces. Finely chop green onion and coriander.', 'url': 'https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/hot pot at home/#wprm recipe 17385 step 2 0'}]}
9. {'@type': 'HowToSection', 'name': 'Assemble hot pot', 'itemListElement': [{'@type': 'HowToStep', 'text': 'Place all the content from a hot pot soup base package in your serving pot.
10. Add light chicken stock (around 2.5L to 4L ) made in previous step.
11. Add 2 3 sections of long green onion and continue with your hot pot party.', 'name': 'Place all the content from a hot pot soup base package in your serving pot.
12. Add 2 3 sections of long green onion and continue with your hot pot party.', 'url': 'https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/hot pot at home/#wprm recipe 17385 step 3 0'}]}