There are many collocations for eating hot pot, but everyone has different appetites and favorite sauces. The simplest way is to use sesame oil as the base and add garlic paste, onion or coriander powder, or add unique sesame sauce, Chili oil and fermented milk. It is also great to mix salty and spicy food, but some people like to use red oil with sesame sauce, which makes it taste different.
However, most hot pot dip ingredients are the same, but the taste is different, adding more or less. Some people like to use red hot sauce and sesame sauce as the bottom, then add some sesame oil, then add soy sauce, sugar and vinegar in turn, and finally sprinkle with chopped green onion, so that red and green look good and delicious.
Difference between North and South Hotpot Seasonings
First of all, the bottom of the pot is different. Compared with Chongqing spicy hot pot, the old Beijing instant-boiled mutton hot pot is much lighter. A few pieces of scallion, a few pieces of ginger, a few mushrooms, an longan, two red dates and a few Chinese wolfberry are the bottom materials in the north. Although there are few ingredients in the pot, it is very delicious. Chongqing spicy hotpot is made of butter, douban, lobster sauce, rock sugar, chili festival, pepper, Jiang Mo, garlic and fermented glutinous rice juice.
Secondly, there are different seasonings for eating hot pot in the north and south. In the south, oil is the main seasoning, and garlic paste, sesame oil, shallots and oyster sauce are enough. In the north, the main seasoning for hot pot is the old three sauces, mainly sesame sauce, leek sauce and bean curd.