Learn how to make a simple and tasty Chinese hot pot with step-by-step instructions. Perfect for sharing and fun to cook together.
Chinese hot pot is a fun and tasty way to enjoy a meal with family or friends. This recipe shows you how to make it easily at home using simple ingredients.
Chinese Hot Pot Recipe
Course: entrée
Cuisine: Chinese
Yield: 4 servings
Cooking Time: 2 hours
Total Time: 2 hours
Ingredients
- Chicken carcasses
- 2 Chicken feet
- Pig trotters
- 2 Carrot
- 3 Long green onions
- 1″ Ginger
- 1 Tomato
- 3 Chinese celery stalks
- Salt to taste
Hot Pot
Thinly sliced meats
Mushrooms (enoki, oyster, etc.)
Carrots
Tomato
Fried tofu
Snow peas
Baby corn
Quail eggs
Steps
- Place chicken carcasses, feet, and pig trotters in a stock pot. Cover with water.
- Bring to a boil and cook off the blood.
- Remove from heat, drain, and rinse. Clean out the pot and place the meats back in.
- Cut carrot, long green onion, tomato, and celery into rough pieces; add to pot.
- Slice ginger and add to the pot.
- Cover ingredients with water, bring to a boil, and simmer for 1-2 hours.
- Season with salt.
- Strain the stock and place it in the hot pot cooker.
- When the stock is boiling in the cooker, add your hot pot ingredients.
- Remove as each ingredient cooks and serve with a soy-vinegar sauce.
The sauce, which is made for dipping, consists of soy sauce, white vinegar, minced garlic and ginger, Thai bird chili, sesame oil, and sometimes a raw egg. It is all about your personal preference, so feel free to add ingredients as you go to see what you like best.
