One of our summer traditions is Mongolian hot
pot. We prepare this meal when our Chinese friend Hong and her family visit us.
This happened last week.
One of our summer traditions is Mongolian hot
pot. We prepare this meal when our Chinese friend Hong and her family visit us.
This happened last week.
Hong was the main chef in our kitchen that
day. She brought the Chinese ingredients such as goji berries, fresh and
fermented tofu, black beans, Asian chile paste, glass noodles, Chinese pepper,
ginseng, tahini and herbs. We bought the
meat (thinly sliced beef sirloin and lamb meat), napa cabbages and ingredients
available on Kemiö S-market.
One of our summer traditions is Mongolian hot
pot. We prepare this meal when our Chinese friend Hong and her family visit us.
This happened last week.
Hot pot is a steaming aromatic broth simmering
in a shallow pot divided into two sections, one has more spicy broth and the
other one a mild broth. We have two original Chinese pots for this purpose to
serve 8-10 people.
There is also an assortment of fresh ingredients such as thinly
shaved meat, napa cabbage and other Chinese greens, noodles and tofu and people
cook their own meal from these ingredients in the common hot pot. Once the
chosen pieces have been cooked a minute or so, they will be fished out with
chopsticks from the broth and dipped in a tasty spicy dipping sauce.
By the end
of dinner, the broth has taken on wonderful flavors, and a big bowl of the
broth with a dash of the dipping sauce makes for a perfect ending to the meal.
Hong was the main chef in our kitchen that
day. She brought the Chinese ingredients such as goji berries, fresh and
fermented tofu, black beans, Asian chile paste, glass noodles, Chinese pepper,
ginseng, tahini and herbs. We bought the
meat (thinly sliced beef sirloin and lamb meat), napa cabbages and ingredients
available on Kemiö S-market.
Hong mixed the ingredients to the dipping
sauce and broth from her head, without measuring anything. The result is every
time different but always delicious. Our kids aged from 4 to 14 all liked the
food and managed to eat with chopsticks. Only little Ollie needed some help.
If you don't have a Chinese friend, there are plenty of recipes for hot pot on the internet, for example these:
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