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Hot pot is a highly popular dish in Vietnam today. Not only do Vietnamese people go to restaurants to enjoy it, but most families also relish hot pot during gatherings or meals at home. A delicious hot pot is the result of many factors, with the most crucial being the broth. In today's article, Cooking Ways will guide you on how to make an enticing hot pot broth at home!
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Ingredients for Making Delicious Hot Pot Broth
First step in making delicious hot pot broth involves selecting fresh, live ingredients, and then applying suitable processing techniques. Additionally, each type of hot pot requires the specific characteristics of the family. You should use each type of ingredient appropriately.
For pork hot pot broth, avoid using bone heads as they may cause unpleasant odor. Opt for bone and tail parts for a balanced and sweet broth. Particularly for these two types of hot pots, only use pure pork bones and chicken bones without adding other sour or sweet flavors, which would diminish the natural sweetness of the broth. When cooking chicken hot pot, grill dried onions, crush them, season with savory broth, add leeks, green onions, and tomatoes. Add Chinese herbs and soaked shiitake mushrooms, chili oil, serve with coriander, water spinach, and kale.
In addition, hot pots with household ingredients need to add shallots, purple onions, ginger, and steam. Beef hot pot with water cannot lack spices such as cinnamon, star anise, cloves, and dried onions. The onions should be cooked until brown but not peeled. The red action layer helps improve the appearance of the broth. Moreover, break the cloves into individual petals, break them into small pieces, take out the fragrant seeds from the cloves. Then, use a clean cloth to remove and package them in clean fabric, put them into the broth. The top layer of beef used water usually has a layer of fat to retain heat and preserve aromatic oils.
For crystal hot pot, you don't need to add Chinese herbs, serve with vegetables, various leafy greens, and fresh mushrooms.
Hot pot broth production requires celery, seafood, shrimp, seafood, chili oil... tailored to each family's taste. Seafood hot pot is typically slightly spicy, sour, and sweet. For fish hot pot, in addition to pork bones, you also include fish bones and meat. Seafood hot pot broth doesn't need grilling, however, it tends to be more sour compared to other types. After filtering, slicing the fish, marinate with spices, enticing flavor. When cooking in the hot pot, add vegetables like celery, chrysanthemum leaves, squash, ...
Simple Hot Pot Broth Recipe at Home
Step 1:
When adding bones to cold water, heat the fire to quickly bring it to a boil, then reduce the heat for a few minutes to remove tough scum and reduce it. The rest of the process is simmering over very low heat.
Step 2:
Depending on the type of ingredients, the cooking time for different broths varies. Typically, beef and pork broth are cooked for 4 – 6 hours. Seafood broth requires longer simmering, around 8 – 10 hours. Seafood hot pot broth should not be boiled for more than 45 minutes, or it will become cloudy and sour.
For beef bones, especially marrow bones, it's best to roast them at high temperature before simmering to make the broth fragrant, clear, and flavorful.
Step 3:
Add beaten egg whites into lukewarm water, then place it on the stove, evenly spread to ensure all impurities stick to the egg and clean thoroughly.
Chop the meat (depending on the type of broth) then mix with egg whites, shiitake mushrooms added to hot water will create a perfectly balanced broth.
If the chicken broth becomes cloudy, add more chicken bones to simmer in the broth for a clearer and more flavorful result.
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Information on how to cook hot pot broth properly at home
Hope the above information will help you easily prepare a simple homemade hot pot. Wish you success!
Posted by: Nguyen Viet Anh
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