The hot pot needs to be prepared with Little Sheep pot base, various kinds of lamb, beef rolls, various kinds of meatballs, vegetables, and dipping sauces.

1, seafood and meat are the main characters of hot pot, but hot pot is not complete without vegetables. Vegetables not only relieve greasiness, but also enrich the flavor of the soup. You can add any vegetables to the hot pot, those ingredients that can keep their texture even after long cooking.

2, leafy vegetables. For example, spinach, lettuce, artemisia, these, a touch of soup is absent, cook a two or three minutes.

3, mushrooms. At that time in the super can only buy golden mushroom and dried shiitake mushrooms. However, in China, there are more types of mushrooms, such as straw mushrooms, tea tree mushrooms and so on. The larger mushrooms like shiitake are best cut in half and thrown into the hot pot, as they take 3-4 minutes to cook. Enoki mushrooms cook quickly, in about 30 seconds or so.

4, tuberous root vegetables. For example, radish, potato, lotus root, etc., such vegetables have two ways to prepare, one they cut into small pieces to make hot pot soup base, two cut into slightly larger pieces to eat while cooking. Potatoes are recommended to cut into larger pieces, because the time to cook for a long time, the potatoes will melt.

5, tofu. Including old tofu, oil tofu, dried beans, bean curd, konjac shredded and so on. Because the tofu is already cooked, you just need to slightly heat in the hot pot for a while. Old tofu cut into small pieces, dried beans will be shredded, bean curd soaked and pulled into segments can be.

6, tomato. Tomato is best suited to put in spicy hot pot, its sour flavor and spicy mix, do soup base can also put some more, soup will also be very delicious.

7, meat. Beef, pork and lamb are best sliced thinly 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. Lamb is also an indispensable type of meat, like fatty beef, and the lamb usually used in hot pots is called fat lamb (the meat from the thigh and shoulder of the sheep).