Recipe: Appetizing Beijing hot pot

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Beijing hot pot. Hot Pots in Beijing West Railway Station. Hot Pots in Beijing Workers' Sports Complex. The food is super fresh and very tasty.

Beijing hot pot For the cold weather, Beijing hot pot is the favorite of local people. From the quantity and quality of Beijing Hotpot Restaurants, we may conclude how local people love it. There is nothing can compare with eating Hotpot in the cold winter! you can have Beijing hot pot using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Beijing hot pot

  1. Prepare 2 of chicken carcasses.
  2. You need 400 g of beef bones.
  3. Prepare 2.5 L of water.
  4. Prepare 2 tbsp of goji berries.
  5. It's 20 of red dates.
  6. Prepare of Salt (to taste).
  7. You need of choice or combination of:.
  8. You need of Beef or chicken (thinly sliced).
  9. It's of Fish fillets (thinly sliced).
  10. You need of Prawns, squids or scallops.
  11. Prepare of Meatballs, crab sticks, fish balls or fish cakes.
  12. It's of Dumplings or wontons.
  13. It's of Tofu, bean curd skins, mushrooms, eggs.
  14. You need of Vermicelli noodles, glass noodles or egg noodles.
  15. It's of Bok choy, Chinese broccoli, wombok, garland chrysanthemum.
  16. Prepare of condiments or dipping sauces:.
  17. Prepare of Soy sauce.
  18. Prepare of Fresh chillies.
  19. You need of Garlic chilli sauce.
  20. It's of Sesame oil.
  21. It's of Chilli sauce.

Two kinds of hotpot restaurants can be found in Beijing: Mongolian style and Sichuan style. Beijing Mutton Hot Port, also known as Shuan Yangrou Hot Pot in the city, is especially popular during the winter season, when the city cools down and people are finding a nice hot meal to keep warm. Check out Chef Bao's Beijing hot pot recipe to make this classic dish at home! Plus, a tasty Shaobing ( Chinese flatbread).

Beijing hot pot instructions

  1. Prepare a big pot and bring water to a boil. Boil the chicken carcass and beef bones for 5 mins and discard the water. This is to remove scum..
  2. Fill in 2.5L of water into the pot and bring it to boil. Add in goji berries and red dates, simmer for 2 hrs. Season with salt according to taste..
  3. Once ready, transfer broth into a steamboat pot / hot pot, about half full. Place it on a portable electric stove. Add in your own combination of meat, veggies and fish. Let it boil and cook. When ready, dish out into individual serving bowls with small wire strainer or ladle. Dip cooked food into condiments and enjoy..
  4. Repeat the same process by adding in meat, veggies and fish into the hot pot and allow to boil and cook once the first batch of cooked food has been distributed. Top up with broth when needed..
  5. Noodles and eggs are usually added towards the end when the broth is most flavourful after cooking all the ingredients..

Sauces - our basic one is the Beijing sauce. It is made with vegetable broth. If you like spicy hot, please ask for our own making hot sauce. We try Hot Pots or shabu shabu wherever we can, and this place was excellent. The staff was very helpful and made sure we understood what to do, and that we were ordering the correct items.