Chinese Hot Pot Recipe

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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

1. Place chicken carcasses, feet, and pig trotters in a stock pot. Cover with water.
2. Bring to a boil and cook off the blood. 
3. Remove from heat, drain, and rinse. Clean out the pot and place the meats back in.
4. Cut carrot, long green onion, tomato, and celery into rough pieces; add to pot.
5. Slice ginger and add to the pot.
6. Cover ingredients with water, bring to a boil, and simmer for 1-2 hours.
7. Season with salt.
8. Strain the stock and place it in the hot pot cooker. 
9. When the stock is boiling in the cooker, add your hot pot ingredients.
10. 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.