5 Simple Hot Pot Recipes for Home

2026-03-18 · Chinese Cuisine, Cooking, Food Preparation, Hot Pot, Recipes, Spicy Dishes

Classic Red Oil Hot Pot

Ingredients Preparation

Main Ingredients: 40g beef tallow, 150g peanut oil, 100g chili peppers
Auxiliary Ingredients: green onions, salt, ginger, garlic, cooking wine, star anise, fennel seeds, 3 cardamom pods, cinnamon, chili paste, dried shiitake mushrooms, white pepper seeds

Method of Preparation

  1. Soak the dried spices in warm water for ten minutes; at the same time, chop the fresh chili peppers and green onions, ginger, and garlic, and cut the dried chili peppers into small sections for later use;

  2. Melt the beef tallow and add peanut oil, then add the green onions, ginger, and garlic to extract the fragrance and remove them. Add the soaked dried chili peppers and other dried spices, and simmer on low heat for fifteen minutes;

  3. Sequentially add chili paste, chili sections, Sichuan pepper, rock sugar, hoary basil leaves, and cooking wine, and simmer on low heat for fifteen minutes;

  4. After simmering, add the green onions, ginger, and garlic to the base mixture to complete it. When cooking the hot pot, just add bone broth or clear water.

 

Versatile Clear Soup Hot Pot

Ingredients Preparation

Main Ingredients: beef bones
Auxiliary Ingredients: old ginger, green onions, minced garlic sprouts, spicy oil, edible salt, vinegar

Method of Preparation

  1. Cut the beef bones into small pieces, wash them clean, and boil them in cold water. After the water boils, skim off the blood foam (usually 3-4 times);

  2. Pour the bone broth into a pressure cooker, add a small piece of old ginger, 1-2 green onions, and a few drops of vinegar. Cook for a time based on your taste;

  3. Warm reminder: when stewing beef bones, add enough water at once, do not add water midway; do not add salt while stewing, add it when eating.

 

Yin Yang Hot Pot

Ingredients Preparation

Main Ingredients: 800g chicken carcass
Auxiliary Ingredients: 20g ginger, 15ml cooking wine, lamb slices, pig liver, fish cakes, hot pot balls, shiitake mushrooms, oil tofu, thousand sheets, dried tofu, white mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, sweet potato starch

Method of Preparation

  1. Thaw the chicken carcass, wash it clean, and put it in a pressure cooker with ginger slices and cooking wine, add clear water and simmer. After boiling, turn to low heat and cook for 30 minutes;

  2. Pour the soup into the yin yang pot, add one pack of spicy and one pack of three fresh hot pot base, heat on high until the base melts, then turn to low heat and cook for another five minutes before turning off the heat;

  3. Wash and slice the pig liver, mix with some starch, cooking wine, and dark soy sauce; wash and cut fresh shiitake mushrooms into long strips;

  4. Put the desired ingredients into the pot to cook until done.

 

Golden Seafood Hot Pot

Ingredients Preparation

Main Ingredients: 100g mantis shrimp, 100g fresh oysters, 100g fresh squid, 100g fresh octopus, 100g pork balls, 100g vegetarian chicken, 100g lotus root, 100g corn, 100g broccoli, 100g fresh wood ear mushrooms, 100g fresh mushrooms, 100g pleurotus eryngii, 100g enoki mushrooms, 100g fresh mushrooms;
Auxiliary Ingredients: 1 box of curry paste, appropriate amount of broth

Method of Preparation

  1. Clean the fresh squid and octopus, remove the ink and fish bones, rinse the fresh oysters with a little edible oil, mix with chopsticks, and let sit for about 10 minutes, then rinse off the slime and oyster shells; rinse the mantis shrimp with clean water and drain;

  2. Cut the broccoli into small pieces, wash it, and blanch it in salted boiling water, cut off the roots of the enoki mushrooms, and soak and wash with other ingredients;

  3. Cut the vegetarian chicken, lotus root, corn, and broccoli into your preferred sizes;

  4. In a pot, pour in the broth, slowly heat it on low, open the curry packaging and add it to the pot, stirring until dissolved;

  5. First, add the cooked lotus root and corn to the pot, then add the other ingredients as needed.

 

Beauty Soy Milk Hot Pot

Ingredients Preparation

Main Ingredients: 40g yellow soybeans, 400g tofu, 200g ham sausage, 250g ribs, 200g thousand sheets, 200g vermicelli, 250g pumpkin
Auxiliary Ingredients: appropriate amount of oil, salt, and monosodium glutamate

Method of Preparation

  1. Soak the yellow soybeans in water for 12 hours, then add water and grind into soy milk;

  2. Slice the tofu, pumpkin, and ham sausage, and cook the ribs until done, then arrange all the ingredients in the pot;

  3. Filter the soy milk to remove the soybean dregs, pour it into the pot with the arranged ingredients, and add oil, salt, and a little monosodium glutamate;

  4. Once the pot boils, move it to an alcohol stove and light it to simmer and eat.

Under the impact of hot pot and chili, the feeling of sweating profusely is really refreshing. However, everyone should enjoy it once or twice, but not too often. Eating chili is beneficial to the body and can stimulate appetite, but eating it in summer can easily cause heat, so moderation is key. Also, pay attention to scientific pairing for health benefits.