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Hotpot: The Ultimate Comfort Food
Hotpot, also known as "huoguo" 火锅 in China, is a popular cooking and eating style that involves simmering a variety of ingredients in a communal pot of broth at the dining table. The ingredients can include meats, seafood, vegetables, tofu, and noodles, among others. Hotpot is a great way to bring people together to share a meal, as everyone can cook their own ingredients and customize the flavor to their liking with a selection of dipping sauces. It is also a healthy and nutritious way to eat, as the ingredients are cooked in a flavorful broth without the need for added oils or fats. Hotpot has become increasingly popular around the world, and many restaurants now offer hotpot as a menu option. Whether enjoyed at home or at a restaurant, hotpot is a fun and delicious way to enjoy a meal with friends and family.
Get Your Hotpot Game On: A Beginner's Guide to Cooking This Tasty Meal
Making hotpot is an easy meal to make: it consists of Broth, Veggies, Tofu, Meat or Seafood, Carbs like noodles, shiratiki or dumplings, and dipping sauce. You only need to buy the ingredients, cut them and put it in the boiling broth. Even better, some hotpot ingredients are already pre-cut for you! At GoTiger you can buy everything you need for making hotpot at home. At our online grocery store you can find hotpot equipment, pre-sliced meat, fresh vegetables, tofu, noodles, dumplings, pre-mixed hotpot soup base and pre-mixed hotpot dipping sauce as well! Hotpot Equipment: First of all, you need a hot pot cooker in the middle of the table. You can either use an electric hotpot cooker, a portable gas camping cooker or a portable induction cooker. There are hotpot woks that come with a divider inside to help cook multiple broths at once or to seperate ingredients and help monitor their cooking time. Hotpot Meat Hotpot meat is usually very thinly sliced to facilitate the cooking time. Very thinly sliced meat usually only takes a couple minutes before you can take it out from the boiling water and eat it. You can basically use any type of meat but here are some typical hotpot meat suggestions: - Thinly sliced hotpot meats: Kung Fu Food Beef Slices, Kung Fu Food Pork Slices, Kung Fu Food Lamb Slices - Pork Belly - Beef Balls - Fish Cake - Shrimp - Pangasius Fish Hotpot Vegetables It may not sound very fancy at first but vegetables are a key ingredient of hotpots. They are easy and quick to cook, soak in the borth taste easily and add a different texture to the dish. Some of our favourite gotpot vegetables include: - Pak choi - Baby corn - Bean Sprouts - Enoki mushrooms - Oyster msuhrooms - Shimeji mushrooms - Hokkaido Pumpkin - Lotus Roots - Taro Hotpot tofu Tofu is also a popular hotpot ingredient (also for non-vegetarians), because it soaks up the broth really well and is easy and quick to cook. For hotpot firmer tofu is recommended, as it holds up better in the boiling hotpot broth. Hotpot Soup Base Hotpot broth is arguably the most important ingredient of the dish. The broth will determin the taste of the other ingredients as well, since they are all cooked in the broth. There are various flavors you can choose from: it can be mushroom based, tomato based, meat based, spicy broths or could also be regional flavours like sichuan flavor or thai tom yum flavor. Hotpot Noodles & Dumplings If you want to add some carbs to your hotpot dish, adding noodles, rice cakes or dumplings will surely not leave you hungry! Our favourite carbs to add to your hotpot include: - Jongga Rice Cake - Vermicelli noodles - Fresh Handmade Noodles - Shrimp Gyoza Dumplings Hotpot dipping sauce Last but not least, hotpot dipping sauce is what makes it all come together! You can make your own hotpot dipping sauce using ingredients, such as soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, cilantro, green onion, and red chili. Or if you don't feel like doing it yourself, there are great ready-made hotpot dipping sauces available in our webshop, such as: Haidilao Peanut Sesame Hot Pot Dipping Sauce, or if you like spicy dips, you can try the Haidilao Hot Pot Dipping Sauce Cup Spicy Peanut Sesame.
Instant Hotpot: Quick, Easy, and Delicious Meals in Minutes!
In 2018, Haidilao introduced their selfheating instant hotpot packages. They were first introduced in China in 2018 and then quickly spread to other Asian countries and then globally as well. During the Covid-19 pandemic, hotpot restaurants were closed in China and these instant hotpot packages became a huge sensation. You only need to add water to it and the box will heat the water itself and cook the ingredients in it. There are several flavours available for the public, for example spicy flavour or the milder tomato flavor. In the box included there is hotpot noodles, hotpot vegetables, hotpot meat and hotpot soup base. You just have to follow the instruction: mix the ingredients, add water, use the self heating sachet and in 15 minutes you have your hotpot ready to eat. As this instant hotpot is cooking everything all at once, it lacks the communal cooking experince of the traditional hotpot, but if you are in a hurry and would like to have a quick hotpot dish, this could be a great alternative! Where can you buy these? At GoTiger you can buy the Haidilao Self-Heating Beef Hot Pot Kit Spicy Flavor or if you prefer a milder taste, you can try the Haidilao Self-Heating Beef Hot Pot Kit Tomato Flavor. Pro-tip: You can pimp your intant hotpot by adding other ingredients like Enoki Mushrooms, Pre-Sliced Hot Pot Meat or dumplings!
Exploring the Delicious World of Hotpots: Types, Varieties, and Flavors
Hotpot is a popular cooking and eating style that has many variations across different regions and cultures. Here are some of the different types of hotpots: Chongqing Hot Pot: Originating from the city of Chongqing in China, this hotpot is known for its spicy and flavorful broth, which is made with Sichuan peppercorns, chili peppers, and other aromatic spices. The broth is often accompanied by a variety of meats, vegetables, and noodles. Sichuan Hot Pot or Chengdu Hot Pot: Sichuan-style hotpot, also known as Chengdu-style hotpot, is similar to Chongqing hotpot in terms of its spicy broth, but is often more numbing and aromatic due to the use of Sichuan peppercorns. It is also popular to include fatty meats in the broth, which helps to balance out the heat. Shabu-Shabu: A Japanese-style hotpot, shabu-shabu features a light, clear broth that is typically made with kombu seaweed and bonito flakes. Thinly sliced beef or pork is a common protein option, along with a variety of vegetables and noodles. The name "shabu-shabu" comes from the sound of the meat being swished back and forth in the hot broth. Thai hotpot, also known as Thai steamboat: There are many different flavors and ingredients that can be used in Thai hotpot, depending on personal preferences and regional variations. One of the most popular broth flavors is tom yum, which is a spicy and sour broth that is made with lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, galangal, chili, and other aromatic herbs and spices. In addition to tom yum, there are other broth flavors that can be used in Thai hotpot, including clear broth, chicken broth, and mushroom broth. The ingredients used in the hotpot can also vary widely, but some common ones include thinly sliced beef, pork, and chicken, as well as seafood such as shrimp, squid, and mussels. Tofu, mushrooms, leafy greens, and various noodles are also popular ingredients.