Chinese Hotpot

In the Chinese new year festival, I like eating the hotpot with my friends. So today I want introduce how to make hotpot.

Hot pot or also known as Chinese fondue is always my favorite no matter in hot summer or cold winter. In China, hot pot has a history over 1000 years and until now, it is still the most popular dish for social or family gathering.

Let’s start making hot pot broth (soup base). Generally there are two types of broth for hot pot, one is spicy version and the other is clear version.

1. Prepare the ingredients. The picture below shows my recommendation for making a clear hot pot broth. One chicken, several pig big bones, tomato, ginger and scallion. Besides, I add celery and carrot but forget to include them in the photo. Sorry for that. You can use lamb bones or beef bones too.

2. Cut the chicken into large chunks. Clean chicken chunks, and pig bones. Cut ginger into slices, tomato into slices, scallions into sections, carrots into cubes and celery into small section.

3. Prepare a pot or wok with enough water. Bring the water to a boiling. And add chicken and pig bones in. Turn down the fire and cook the blood water out. Transfer out and wash with warm water.

4. Clean your pot or prepare another one.  And add some enough water. Return the chicken and pig bones back. Add ginger slices, carrot cubes, scallions sections and tomato slices in to. Add 3 teaspoon salt or as needed.

5 Bring all the content to a boiling and then turn down the fire to simmer for around 40 minutes to 1 hour.

Hope you enjoin it.