(serves 4)
So hot pot is one of those great cold winter night ideas which brings everyone together over one boiling pot of warm tasty soup. Every Asian culture seems to have their own version, different soup base and condiments, but essentially you need some thinly sliced meat, variety of vegetables, mushrooms, seafood, noodles... everyone has their family favourites!
One of the Japanese style hot pots is with a sukiyaki base, a soy-based sweet sauce which i always love to order (though now i guess i can make my own!). I've just put down a few of my favourite ingredients, but just have whatever you like!
NB. It's pretty salty soup mix, so when the pot is getting low on volume, just add hot water (and no extra soy etc), so by the time you're ready to have soup, it should be right!
Prep time: 30 min
Cooking time: As long as you want to sit there for...
Ingredients:
200g Oyster mushrooms
200g Enoki mushrooms
500g thinly sliced beef (frozen)
5-8 leaves Chinese cabbage
1 bunch Chinese Spinach
1 packet vermicelli balls
1/2 sweet potato
1/2 eggplant
Eggs
500g udon
Sukiyaki soup:
2 C sake/shaoxing wine
1/2 C dark soy sauce
1/3 C sugar
1-2 L water
1. Defrost the beef (at least 1-2 hrs before, preferably overnight in the fridge).
2. Peel and cut the sweet potato into 1cm thick semi-circles. Cut the eggplant into a similar size.
3. Wash the cabbage and spinach and set aside.
4. Cut the mushrooms.
5. Prepare soup by adding the sake, soy sauce, sugar and hot water together. You can adjust the saltiness or sweetness as you like.
6. Bring to the boil and add the sweet potato and eggplant and cook for 10 minutes until cooked. Add in some chinese cabbage, chinese spinach, a bit of the mushrooms etc to get the hotpot started.
7. Put all the other ingredients on the table, and serve on the gas stove!
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