1, meat with vegetables and veggies is the most common pairing, seafood and meat is the main character of the hot pot, but the hot pot is incomplete without vegetables. Vegetables can not only relieve fatigue, but also enrich the taste of the soup. Leafy vegetables. For example, spinach, lettuce, artemisia, these, as soon as they touch the soup, they are absent, cook for two or three minutes. If you like spicy food you can try; mushrooms. There are more types of mushrooms, straw mushrooms, tea tree mushrooms and so on.

2, tuberous root vegetables. For example, radish, potato, lotus root, etc., this type of vegetables have two ways to prepare, one they cut into small pieces, do hot pot soup base, two cut into slightly larger pieces side cooking. Old tofu, oil tofu, dried bean curd, bean curd sticks, konjac shreds, etc. Old tofu cut into small pieces, dried beans will be shredded, bean curd bamboo soaked and pulled into sections can be. You can also stuff minced meat marinated in cooking wine, soy sauce and salt into the oil tofu, which tastes super flavorful.

3, tomato. Tomato is best suited to put in spicy hot pot, its sour flavor and spicy mix, do soup base can also put more, soup will also be very delicious. Beef, pork and lamb are best cut into thin slices beforehand, and these meats are usually ready to eat after a few seconds of shabu-shabu.

4. Lamb. Mutton is also an indispensable type of meat, like fatty beef, and the mutton usually used in hot pots is called fatty lamb.

5, pig offal, pig tongue, pig liver, these ingredients are best placed in salt water or wine to remove the fishy flavor before adding to the hot pot.

6, seafood, like meat, seafood is divided into two kinds, one is fresh seafood, and the other is semi-finished seafood like fish balls. Shrimp, scallops, crab, oysters, clams, mussels and shrimp are the most common side dishes, and usually shrimp and shellfish are cooked together. Squid and cuttlefish. Can add a unique fresh flavor to hot pot soup. Fish balls and fish cakes.

7, soup base and dipping sauce to eat clear soup pot if you cook a pot of chicken soup can be fixed, spicy pot, you can use the major hot pot store out of the finished base to cook. No dipping sauce hot pot eating will be a lot of boring. For a simpler sauce, just mix soy sauce, vinegar, and chili pepper, and add cilantro and green onion as you like, and Chongqing people also like to add a little sesame oil. If you like a thicker sauce, you can put peanut butter, curd and oyster sauce.