Recipe: Chinese Hot Pot

Winter is coming, and the days are becoming colder and colder. During this season, wouldn’t you like to try a Chinese Hot Pot that will warm you up? It’s very healthy (as certified by the health teacher) and also— A GOOD, GOOD EAT!

Ingredients
1. Meatballs (of different kind!)
2. Vegetables (Chinese cabbage)
3. Skin of beancurd
4. Fried gluten puff
5. Sweet Potato vermicelli
6. Soybeans
7. Seasonings (very personal):

•    White pepper powder
•    Black pepper powder
•    Paprika
•    Seed ash of Chinese prickly ash
•    Soy sauce
•    Iodized salt
•    Distilled vinegar
•    Vegetable oil
•    Fresh red peppers

Steps
1. Fill about 1/4 of your pot with water, boil the water.
2. Pour some vegetable oil into the boiled water.
3. Once the oil is boiled, add the red peppers, salt and other seasonings. Mix them.
4. Add meatballs and soybeans. When the meatballs float on the water, they’re ready.
5. Add the cabbage.
6. Add the vermicelli
7. Add the skin of beancurd and the puffs,
8. Wait for about 5-10 min.
9. Ready to serve!!



* This is my own recipe of making Hot Pot, so the seasonings can be very personal. The amount is not so strict, so you can help yourself to whatever you want to add, make it however you want it to be! The trick is to just keep adding to the filling of your Hot Pot… It’s really simple!


By: Yizi Wang