Hot Pot

Ingredients

• Leafy Greens

• 1 head chinese cabbage (chopped into large pieces)

• 2 cups baby spinach

• 4 heads bok choy (halved)

• 1 bunch bunch Choy sum

• Other Vegetables

• 1 onion

• 1 bunch salad onions (cut into 2-inch pieces)

• lotus root

• daikon radish

• potato

• sweet potato

• 3 garlic cloves

• ginger

• Mushrooms (choose 1-2)

• 200g white button mushrooms (whole or halved)

• 150g shiitake mushrooms (stems removed)

• 100g enoki mushrooms (trimmed and separated)

• 200g oyster mushrooms

• Proteins (Choose 2-3)

• 300g pre-sliced beef (thinly sliced)

• 300g pre-sliced pork (thinly sliced)

• 200g prawns (peeled and deveined)

• 1 fried firm tofu (cut into 1-inch cubes)

• 200g fish balls

• Carbs (choose 1-2)

• 100g vermicelli noodles

• 200g udon noodles

• 150g rice noodles

• 150g Thin fresh white noodles

• 200g tteokbokki (oval style best)

• Dipping Sauces & Condiments

• 4 tbsp soy sauce

• 2 tbsp sesame oil

• 2 tbsp chili oil

• 6 cloves garlic (minced)

• 1 tbsp dried chilies (crushed)

• Soup Base

• 2 liters your preferred soup base (homemade stock or store-bought hot pot base)

• spicy

• tomato

• mushroom

• bone broth

Directions

1. Prepare all ingredients by washing, cutting, and arranging them on serving platters according to category (vegetables, proteins, carbs).

2. Prepare individual dipping sauce bowls by combining soy sauce, sesame oil, chili oil, minced garlic, and crushed dried chillies according to personal taste preferences.

3. Pour the soup base into a hot pot or electric hot pot cooker and bring to a gentle boil over medium-high heat.

4. Arrange all ingredient platters around the hot pot, allowing guests to cook their own selections in the communal broth.

5. Begin cooking by adding longer-cooking ingredients first (cabbage stems, mushrooms, rice cakes, fish balls, salad onions, tofu) before adding quicker-cooking items (thinly sliced beef, leafy vegetables, noodles).

6. Add noodles toward the end of the meal to soak up the flavourful broth that has developed.

7. Enjoy each cooked item immediately after removing from the broth, dipping in your personalized sauce before eating.