Hotpot generally refers to the cooking method of using a pot as a utensil, burning the pot with a heat source, and boiling water or soup to cook various types of food, as well as the pots and pans used in this cooking method.

It is characterized by the fact that the food is eaten while it is being cooked, or that the pot itself is insulated so that the food is still hot when it is eaten, and the soup is served in a single bowl. Similar dishes can be found all over the world, but are especially popular in East Asia.

Typical hot pot ingredients include a variety of meats, seafood, vegetables, legumes, mushrooms, egg products, and staple foods, which are scalded in boiling water or a special broth base and eaten. Some eating methods will also be dipped in seasonings and eaten together.

Hotpot Eating Notes

One, afraid of fire? The first thing you need to do is to choose a clear soup base

Fear of too many calories? Then in the selection of soup base when it is recommended to choose clear soup base, the fat content of this base is relatively small, we all know that the hot pot soup base contains more or less some nitrite, clear soup hot pot can reduce the risk of nitrites in the soup, but also to avoid fire.

Second, meat consumption should be moderate

Fat beef and fat lamb are high-fat meat, fat content of up to 35% or more, the degree of saturation of this type of fat compared to other meats, is quite high, which also contains a lot of cholesterol.

Three, vegetable consumption has to pay attention to

Common vegetables contain a lot of vitamins, not only can eliminate grease, but also very effective in supplementing the winter body vitamin deficiency, cool, detoxification, fire and other effects.

Four, food is best cooked and then eat

Hot pot is delicious, but most of the ingredients are raw, shabu not cooked enough to eat, caused by the disease is not uncommon.