In fact, any meat is suitable for hot pot. Beef, pork and lamb are best cut into thin slices beforehand (you can buy ready-made ones at the supermarket), and these meats are usually ready to eat after a few seconds of shabu-shabu. Lunch meat and ham hock are cut into thick slices.
If you like offal. Pork offal, pork tongue, and pork liver are ingredients that are best put in brine or wine to remove the fishy odor before adding them to the hot pot. If you can buy duck intestines in the market, then put in the hot pot to cook, keep in mind that the "seven on eight" method, chopsticks hold the duck intestines into the pot hot for one to two seconds and then pick up, repeat eight times, so that the duck intestines cooked out of the mouth crispy.
2, seafood, such as crab meat, fish balls, fresh shellfish, oysters, squid, prawns, cod fillets and so on. Like meat, there are a variety of seafood that can be put in the hot pot. There are two types of seafood here: fresh seafood and semi-finished seafood like fish balls.
Fish is usually sliced thinly, and because it cooks quickly, it's best to put it in a strainer before putting it in the hot pot. Eat it now.
Shellfish. For example, shrimp, scallops, crab, oysters, clams, mussels, shrimp is the most common side dish, usually shrimp and shellfish will be cooked together (shrimp head plucked or not). Remember to put the shellfish ingredients in a tub of water ahead of time so they can spit out the sand.
Squid and cuttlefish. Use both fresh and dried. It can add a unique fresh flavor to the hot pot soup. If you use fresh squid, make sure you've cleaned it. Dried squid is a little more tricky and needs to be soaked in water for 24 hours before use.
Fish balls and fish cakes. These ingredients are available in supermarkets, and fishballs have a nice, smooth texture. Since the fishballs themselves are already cooked, you don't need to cook them for too long (except for frozen fishballs).
3, vegetables, such as carrots, carrots, tomatoes, asparagus, lettuce, leeks, potatoes, yams, kelp, lotus root, cucumber, winter melon, lettuce, oatmeal, baby lettuce, cabbage, bok choy, spinach, cabbage, cabbage, broccoli, parsley and so on.
Seafood and meat are the main characters of hot pot, but hot pot is incomplete without vegetables. Vegetables can not only relieve greasiness, but also enrich the flavor of the soup. You can add any vegetables in hotpot, I prefer those ingredients that can keep their texture even after long cooking.
Vegetables are healthy food, containing a variety of nutrients, such as iron, magnesium, vitamins, etc., and eat meat dishes with some vegetables to eat, not easy to feel greasy, but at the same time can promote digestion. So, eat hot pot, green vegetables are indispensable, eat directly hot cooked.
4, mushrooms, such as mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, flat mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, apricot mushrooms, fresh mushrooms, cocktail mushrooms, straw mushrooms, tea tree mushrooms and so on.
The larger mushrooms such as shiitake are best cut in half and thrown into the hot pot, such mushrooms need 3-4 minutes to cook. Enoki mushrooms cook quickly, in about 30 seconds.
5, soybean products, such as soybean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, tofu, dried tofu, bean curd, old tofu, oil tofu, bean curd, konjac shredded and so on. Soy products are rich in nutrients, such as rich in calcium and protein. So, if we eat hot pot at home, you can soak some tofu skin in advance and put it down to shabu when eating hot pot, simple and nutritious.
6, staple food category, if you are afraid of not eating enough, to be added to the above ingredients eaten, with the rest of the soup cooked noodles. You can add some hot pot noodles, instant noodles, sweet potato flour, broad noodles, vermicelli, hand-rolled noodles, gluten and so on.