How (and why) you should Hot Pot at home

Summary by Krater

A guide on how to prepare hotpot at home, covering store-bought base, pork bone soup base, and pickled greens and beans hotpot.

From the video

Answers: How do you make hotpot at home?

• Hotpot base preparation
• Pork bone broth hotpot
• Pickled greens and beans hotpot
• Hotpot dipping sauces
• Hotpot ingredients

Ingredients

• beef
• lamb rolls
• pork belly
• tofu puffs
• shrimp
• fish balls
• enoki mushrooms
• lotus root
• napa cabbage
• bok choy
• sausages
• tofu skin
• eggs
• edamame
• tofu
• 500 g pork bone
• 2 inch ginger
• shallot
• 1 tbsp Liao Jiu
• 500 g daikon
• 1/2 tbsp salt
• 1 tsp chicken bouillon powder
• white pepper
• 120 g lima beans
• 200 g pork belly
• light soy sauce
• 3 cloves garlic
• 150 g pickled mustard greens
• corn
• 1 tomato
• 2 sprigs green garlic

What it concludes

• Hot pot is a form of communal eating that is tasty and easy to feed a crowd with minimal hassle.
• Using a store-bought hotpot base is the easiest way to make hotpot at home.
• Adding hot water helps protein and fat emulsify to get a nice milky stock.
• Lima beans need to be soaked overnight or cooked in a pressure cooker to soften.