Hot pot generally refers to a cooking method in which a pot is used as a utensil, a heat source is used to boil the pot, and water or soup is used to boil all kinds of food. At the same time, it can also refer to the pots used in this cooking method. It is characterized by cooking while eating, or the pot itself has the effect of heat preservation, and the food is still steaming when eating, and the soup is integrated. There are similar dishes all over the world, but they are particularly popular mainly in East Asia.
Hot pot is hot when eaten, spicy and salty, oily but not greasy, and suitable for the climate of mountains and rivers. Today, it has developed into a mandarin duck pot, spicy and light, each with its own needs, and different soups and foods are added according to personal preferences, which are suitable for all ages and best in winter.
Typical hot pot ingredients include all kinds of meat, seafood, vegetables, bean products, mushrooms, egg products, staple foods, etc., which are cooked in boiled water or the bottom of a special soup pot. Some ways of eating will be dipped in seasonings and eaten together.
Dish features
Nowadays, with the progress of science and technology and the development of cooking skills, the varieties of hot pot are also colorful and have their own characteristics. According to the fuel, there are charcoal hot pot, gas hot pot, electric hot pot and alcohol hot pot.
As far as texture is concerned, there are tin chafing dish, aluminum chafing dish, stainless steel chafing dish and enamel chafing dish.
According to the structure, there are conjoined hot pot, split hot pot and Yuanyang hot pot.
According to the cooking style, there are soup-stewed hot pot, stewed hot pot and boiled hot pot.
The variety of hot pots adds a bit of lively atmosphere to the dining table. Thousands of miles of different winds, hundreds of miles of different customs, China's hot pot colorful, thousands of pots and flavors.
Guangdong seafood hot pot, rinse is seafood and so on, ingredients are very particular, the most exquisite taste and taste, food but not greasy, delicious.
Chrysanthemum hot pot in Suzhou and Hangzhou, the hot pot soup is chicken soup or broth, supplemented by thin slices of meat, fish, chicken and chrysanthemum, which is fragrant and refreshing and has a unique flavor.
Yunnan's Yunnan-flavored hot pot is characterized by the fact that cloud legs must be put in the hot pot, accompanied by raw materials such as mushrooms and fish, which are fresh, tender, spicy and full of flavor.
The beef omasum hotpot in Chongqing has the characteristics of diverse raw materials, thick and fresh brine soup, spicy and mellow flavor.
Besides, mutton hot pot in Beijing, Basheng hot pot in Zhejiang, Sanxian hot pot in Hangzhou, game hot pot in Hubei, white meat hot pot in Northeast China, beef hot pot in Hong Kong, assorted hot pot in Shanghai, and mutton soup hot pot in Shandong also have unique flavors.