Hot Pot Base

Taste: Spicy; Cooking Method: Boiling; Time: Several Hours; Difficulty: Ordinary.

Detailed Steps for Cooking Hot Pot Base

Step 1: Boil the soup. Although there are soup base seasonings, it is absolutely not enough to use plain water! So I always boil two pots of bone soup each time. Why two pots? One pot is for making soup base, and the other pot is for adding soup! Hehe, this way the hot pot won’t become weaker and weaker as you eat it…

This is the bone soup that has been boiled for five hours in an electric sand pot. It melts in your mouth, and look at the color of the soup, it’s all white! It is prepared for making the first soup base; there is also another pot of bone soup, which is made using the “nutrient stew” function of an electric pressure cooker and boiled for an hour;

This is the soup base that I bought: two kinds, spicy and non-spicy, prepared for making a yin-yang hot pot;

Prepare the yin-yang hot pot;

You can’t cook the soup base seasonings directly, you have to stir-fry them to make them fragrant! Prepare scallions, ginger, garlic, and Sichuan peppercorns, because I like a little bit of numbness in the spicy flavor;

Use low heat, add a little oil, put in Sichuan peppercorns, about a small handful, and fry until fragrant with low heat;

Add the sauce pack from the spicy seasoning pack and stir-fry evenly;

Then add two sections of scallions, one head of garlic (cut in half), and two slices of ginger, stir-fry until fragrant;

Add the spice pack and stir-fry evenly;

Pour in the bone soup and cook for a while (no need to wait for boiling),

Transfer to the yin-yang hot pot;

Wash the pot (I was a bit silly this time, I should have made the clear soup pot first, so I wouldn’t have to wash the pot…), add oil, stir-fry scallions, garlic, and ginger until fragrant, the heat should not be too high, otherwise it will burn;

Add the sauce pack, which is similar to the soup base of the spicy pot;

Pour in the bone soup, cook for a while, and then transfer to the yin-yang hot pot. Add half of the seasoning pack;

Haha, the yin-yang hot pot is ready! Just stew it on the induction cooker!