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Chilly weather calls for hot pot indulgence. However, many hesitate, fearing acne breakouts or a bulging belly... Introducing the solution: a delicious cold pot that's neither spicy nor heavy!
Guide to crafting your own chilled pot gathering at home
Essential ingredients:
Broth made from pork bones or chicken bones. Pre-make your broth. Additionally, you'll need 750 ml of peppermint water, 250ml of coconut water, 2 boxes of unsweetened yogurt, 1 cucumber, 10 olives, 2 red apples, coriander, baby chili peppers, and seasonings like broth mix, salt, pepper, etc.
Refreshing, mildly sweet and nutritious cold pot, free from worries of getting fat or acne
Peel and slice the cucumber, cut it in half, each slice about 1.5cm thick, slice the red apples, mix them with pepper and salt.
Bring the broth to a boil, add coconut water and let it simmer. Now add the yogurt, continue to cook and season with a pinch of salt and broth mix to taste.
Prepare red apples, cucumbers, and baby peppers
Cut the baby peppers into rings, add to the hot pot along with apples, cucumbers, and marinated olives. Add a teaspoon of peppermint water, stir well.
Turn off the stove, remove the pot, let the pot cool down a bit, then put it in the fridge for 20 minutes before serving. When serving, sprinkle some coriander for garnish.
You can adjust the yogurt and coconut water flavor according to your taste preferences
This dish is characterized by its sweet, refreshing, exotic taste, neither hot nor heavy in calories or fat, perfectly balancing coolness, maintaining shape, and skin health while satisfying your hot pot cravings! Goes well with noodles or bread!
Indulge in 20 Chinese herbal cold pot delights
In Hanoi, finding hot pot is easy, but finding a good cold pot spot is as rare as hen's teeth. So, for Hanoians seeking 'very tasty but not hot' hot pot, they often end up at a familiar place: Nhat Lau - 41 Huynh Thuc Khang, Dong Da District.
Talking about Nhat Lau's cold pot, it's a bit special.
Nhat Lau is renowned for its cold pot dish
Firstly, the broth, undoubtedly, is not something casual like homemade broth. Nhat Lau's cold pot broth is simmered from bones and vegetables to create natural sweetness. After skimming off the impurities, 20 types of spices, herbs, and nutritious Chinese herbs are added to create a turmeric-colored, fragrant, rich broth.
Nourishing hot pot dipping ingredients
Nhat Lau's hot pot dipping ingredients are quite unique as well, either a portion of tender chicken, a newly grown tender chicken with soft but not flabby skin, just the right crispiness, firm and fragrant meat, with the elasticity of youthful chicken; or a portion of free-range chicken, looking dark like lead but fragrant, sweet, extremely nutritious, and rich in flavor.
Chicken meat not only complements the fragrant Chinese herbs but also harmonizes well with various dipping vegetables: mushrooms, mugwort, pennywort, cabbage, water spinach, etc.
Additionally, Nhat Lau's other homemade side dishes are also very special
Cold pot is a family-made dish known for its gentle, nutritious, easy-to-eat nature. Elderly, children, and pregnant women can all enjoy it. It's delicious, nutritious, and refreshing. Someday, take your family to Nhat Lau to enjoy the exotic, fragrant, and nutritious cold pot, a refreshing change from the familiar hot pot!
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Located at 41 Huynh Thuc Khang Street, Dong Da District, Hanoi.
Authored by Ly Thanh.
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