Hot pot refers to a cooking method in which a pot is used as a vessel, a pot is cooked with a heat source, and various foods are cooked with water or soup. It can also refer to the pot used in this cooking method. It is characterized by cooking while eating, or the pot itself has the function of heat preservation. When eating, the food is still steaming and the soup is integrated. Hot pot tastes hot, spicy and salty, oily but not greasy, suitable for mountain and river climate. Nowadays, it has developed into a mandarin duck pot, which is spicy and light, and has its own needs. Different soups and foods are added according to personal preferences, which is suitable for all ages and the best in winter.

Typical hot pot ingredients include all kinds of meat, seafood, vegetables, bean products, mushrooms, egg products, staple foods and so on. They are cooked in boiling water or at the bottom of special soup pots. Some ways of eating will be dipped in seasoning and eaten together.

Hot pot eating method

The way to eat hot pot is different from Chinese food. The dishes cooked on the table are impossible to eat. Instead, some semi-finished dishes are served on the table, and they are operated (cooked) by themselves. The boiling temperature of dishes is in the hands of diners. So diners must know how to eat hot pot in order to eat well.

1. blanch, blanch in a pot.

The key point is: first of all, we must distinguish between various materials, not all of which can be burned. Generally speaking, rinse the tender and crisp materials that can be cooked instantly: that is, cut the materials into pieces, which are suitable for scalding (rinsing) food, such as duck intestines, kidney slices, liver slices, pea seedlings, spinach and so on. Moreover, the texture is a little dense, so it is not easy to cook in an instant. It needs to be scalded for a while, such as hairy belly, mushroom liver, beef slices and so on. Secondly, we should observe the changes of soup. When the soup brine keeps boiling and rolling, and there is enough oil on the soup brine, it is delicious and can also be kept warm. Thirdly, it is necessary to control the heat. If the heat is too high, the food will get old, and vice versa. Fourth, be sure to hold the food steady when it is hot, otherwise it will be easy to boil if it falls into the pot.

2. Cooking: Cook the ingredients in the soup.

The key points are: first, choose cooking materials, such as hairtail, meatballs, mushrooms, etc., which are relatively dense and must be heated for a long time before eating; Secondly, we must master the heat, and some have to cook for a long time.

The experience of eating hot pot should be meat first, then vegetarian.

When scalding, the soup must be boiled away, and it must be completely immersed in the soup for scalding; Secondly, people who like spicy taste can adjust the spicy taste in the following ways: people who like spicy taste can eat spicy food from the oil on the edge of hot pot; On the contrary, hot food is cooked from the middle boiling point; Thirdly, when eating hot pot, you must drink a cup of tea to stimulate appetite, help digestion, relieve greasy, change the taste and reduce spicy feeling.

4. Stir-fry Chinese medicine in hot pot.

Use 10g Dendrobium, Scrophularia and Ophiopogon japonicus, and wrap with gauze. Boil in a hot pot/kloc-0.5 to 20 minutes, then take out the traditional Chinese medicine and eat. It has the effects of nourishing yin, reducing fire, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and can prevent the phenomenon of "getting angry" induced by eating hot pot.

5. Put some vegetables or tofu in the hot pot.

Spinach, lettuce, green beans and other vegetables. Tofu and its products such as old tofu, louver, etc. Vegetables contain a lot of vitamins and chlorophyll, and tofu contains gypsum, which is cold and has the effects of clearing heat, purging fire and removing annoyance. It can prevent eating hot pot from getting angry.

6. add some beer to the hot pot

Adding 2 spoonfuls of beer to the hot pot can make the hot pot soup mellow and delicious, because the beer is rich in various nutrients, which not only can balance the nutrition, but also is a coup to prevent the hot pot from getting angry.

7. After eating hot pot, have some fruit.

After eating hot pot, eat some cool fruits, such as pears, apples and oranges, every 20 to 30 minutes to prevent "getting angry", but don't eat hot oranges.