Spicy Hot Pot Recipes and Cooking Tips

Ingredients :

• 20 dried chillies
• 2 chillies
• 3 stalks of spring onion
• 1 small piece of ginger
• 5 cloves of garlic
• 400g poultry intestines
• Few enoki mushrooms
• 1 stalk of leek
• 2 tablespoon of chilli powder
• 2 tablespoon of Sichuan pepper
• 2 tablespoon of spicy bean sauce
• 3 cups of stock
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• Salt to taste
• 2 tablespoon chilli oil
• 450g beef slices (can be replace any poultry meat)

Method :

• Rinse dried chillies and soak into water for about 15 minutes
• Drain off the water and cut chillies into halves
• Spring onion cut sideway as well as ginger into slices but mince garlic
• Rub intestines with some flour and white vinegar or lime juice then rinse well
• Cut off the root of enoki mushroom
• Cut leek sideway into section
• Heat up 5 tablespoons cooking oil
• Fry chillies, spring onion, ginger and garlic over low flame til the spring onion section are browned
• Add in spicy dried chillies, chilli powder and Sichuan pepper and fry till fragrant (chilli powder should be cooked over low flame, otherwise may become bitter if burnt)
• Add in spicy bean paste to mix well
• Pour in 8cups of water and stock
• Bring to boil and continue cook for 1 hour over low flame
• Strain the soup and season with sugar, salt and chilli oil
• Trnafer into hot pot
• Add in the rest of the ingredients and cook through
• Ready to be serve