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Hot pot

A boiling pot in the middle and two hours of cooking your own dinner.

Hot pot
Photo: Praneeth Thalla, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A photo of the dish, not of these exact recipes.

That was somebody else’s answer. Yours takes about twenty seconds: a handful of either-ors, then one dish.

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How to make hot pot

2 genuinely different takes — a classic, and a faster or lighter route. The same ones the app hands you once you have decided.

The whole table

60 minutes · serves 6 · Easy

What you need

  • 2L stock
  • 1 packet hot pot base, or dried chilli, Sichuan pepper and doubanjiang
  • 600g thinly sliced beef and lamb
  • 400g prawns and fish balls
  • Tofu, mushrooms, leafy greens, lotus root
  • Noodles
  • Sesame paste, soy, garlic, coriander for dipping

What you do

  1. 1Get the broth going on a portable burner in the middle of the table. Half plain, half spicy, if you have a divided pot.
  2. 2Everything raw goes on plates round it. Meat sliced thin enough to see through.
  3. 3Everybody cooks their own: meat takes about 15 seconds, prawns a minute, root vegetables several.
  4. 4Each person mixes their own dipping sauce. Sesame paste, soy, garlic and coriander is the standard.
  5. 5Noodles go in at the very end, when the broth has taken on everything that was cooked in it.

For two, in a pan

35 minutes · serves 2 · Very easy

What you need

  • 1.2L stock
  • Hot pot base paste
  • 300g sliced meat
  • Tofu, mushrooms, greens
  • Noodles
  • Dipping sauce

What you do

  1. 1Simmer the broth on the hob and bring the pan to the table on a trivet.
  2. 2Cook in batches, dip, repeat.
  3. 3Noodles last.