How to make hot pot? What are the precautions for eating hot pot?

In Chongqing, the most famous thing is hot pot. It is a well-known specialty food in the country and has attracted many foreign friends who come to China. There are many types of hot pot, such as duck intestine hot pot, eel hot pot, etc. A table of people gathered around the red hot pot and enjoyed it. Meat slices, duck intestines, eels, bean sprouts, whatever you want to eat, you can smell the aroma that makes people drool when walking on the road and passing by the store. So how to make hot pot? What are the precautions for eating hot pot? Let's take a look at the introduction of Encyclopedia Knowledge Network!

Contents of this article

1. How to make hot pot

2. What are the precautions for eating hot pot?

3. Can corn shoots be eaten in hot pot?

4. Can I still eat hot pot the next day?

What is hot pot?

【Pork chop hot pot】

Hot pot ingredients: 500 grams of pork ribs, 5 grams of ginger, 2 cloves of garlic, 3 shallots, 1 star anise, appropriate amount of salad oil, 5 grams of cooking wine, 4 grams of salt, 8 grams of light soy sauce, 5 grams of dark soy sauce, 8 grams of bean paste, and 3 grams of sugar.

Side dishes: 150 grams of shrimp, 100 grams of broccoli, 150 grams of cauliflower, 100 grams of lettuce, 200 grams of Chinese cabbage, 50 grams of fungus, 8 shiitake mushrooms, 5 beef balls, and 200 grams of shrimp dumplings.

Sauce ingredients: 10 grams of light soy sauce, 50 grams of sesame paste, 8 grams of rice sauce, a little chicken essence, 10 grams of sesame oil, and 2 green onions.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Pour clean water into the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, add the ribs, blanch for 2 minutes, then remove the ribs and drain the water, discard the blanching water;

2. Pour oil into the pot, heat it over high heat until the oil is 50% hot, add the aniseed, ginger and garlic slices and stir-fry until fragrant;

3. Turn down the heat and add the bean paste to fry until fragrant and red oil comes out; add the ribs and stir-fry for about 2 minutes;

4. Add cooking wine, light soy sauce and dark soy sauce, stir until the colors are evenly mixed and then pour in boiling water;

5. Add shallots and a little sugar, simmer for 40 minutes on low heat, add a little salt to the hot pot before serving, and start cooking the hot pot. Add your favorite hot pot side dishes;

6. Mix the sauce ingredients together, add a little boiled water to make the sauce, and enjoy it.

【Coconut Chicken Hot Pot】

Ingredients: 1 chicken, 1 coconut, 5 grams of cordyceps flowers, 400 grams of yam, 300 grams of water chestnuts, 300 grams of mustard greens, 300 grams of cuttlefish balls, 50 milliliters of soy sauce, 10 grams of sand ginger, 2 red peppers, and 2 kumquats. Steps:

1. Cut the chicken into pieces, wash and drain, and take coconut juice and coconut meat from fresh coconut;

2. Pour coconut juice and coconut meat into the casserole, bring to a boil, add the chicken pieces, and remove the floating residue on the surface after boiling;

3. Cook the chicken (cook for another 3-5 minutes after boiling), add a small amount of fresh cordyceps flowers for decoration, and then you can start eating. You can also add iron stick yam, cuttlefish balls, water chestnuts, large mustard greens, etc. to the pot and cook them together;

4. Preparation of the dipping sauce: first squeeze the juice of kumquats into the soy sauce, then mix in sand ginger. If you like spicy food, add some red pepper rings. A bowl of delicious dipping sauce is ready. This is a very local way of preparing the sauce.

【Boneless Hot Pot】

Ingredients: 2 pork shanks, 1 sweet corn, 4 shrimps, 3 fish balls, 3 shrimp balls, 5 dried squids, 1 handful of enoki mushrooms, 3 shiitake mushrooms, 1 handful of lettuce, 1 handful of crab sticks, 1 piece of ginger, 1 small handful of green onions, salt to taste, 1 teaspoon of soy sauce, 1 spoon of sesame paste, 1 spoon of rice sauce, 1 teaspoon of chicken powder, 1 teaspoon of sesame oil, and a little sesame. Steps:

1. Prepare the ingredients, wash and chop the shanks into large pieces; cut the corn into pieces, slice the ginger, wash and tie the green onions into a knot;

2. Put cold water and pork shanks in a casserole, with enough water to completely cover the pork shanks. Bring to a boil over high heat and continue cooking for 2 to 3 minutes. Use a strainer to completely remove the blood foam.

3. Add corn, ginger slices and scallion knots into the pot and bring to a boil; after boiling, turn down the heat and simmer for about 1.5 hours;

4. When the meat on the shanks is soft, add salt to season. The hot pot soup base is ready. Remove the black film from the squid and cut it diagonally in a cross shape. Put a little cooking wine in boiling water and blanch it until it curls. Remove from the water and serve it with other hot pot side dishes.

【Fruit hot pot】

Ingredients: 100g mango sauce, 100g glutinous rice flour, 50g blueberry, 50g apple (Red Fuji), 50g lychee, 50g hawthorn, 50g orange, and some water.

1. Prepare all the ingredients, add glutinous rice flour and water to knead into small dough;

2. Gently knead the glutinous rice dough into several small balls and prepare the mango jam;

3. Peel the fruits and cut them into small dices. Pour water into the soup pot and add mango jam and mix well.

4. Bring to a boil over high heat, add the glutinous rice balls, cook until the small balls float up, then add some fruits (except blueberries);

5. After boiling, pour into a small hot pot and continue heating. You can eat the blueberries anytime while they are heated.

【Spicy Pig's Trotter Hotpot】

Ingredients: 2 pig trotters, 1 sweet potato, 150 grams of tofu skin, 150 grams of black fungus, 200 grams of lettuce, 200 grams of sausage, 2 tablespoons of hot pot base, 2 tablespoons of light soy sauce, 2 tablespoons of cooking wine, 5 crystal sugars, 2 teaspoons of salt, appropriate amount of dried chili, appropriate amount of green onion, appropriate amount of ginger, 2 star anise, 1/2 teaspoon of pepper, 1 cardamom, 1 piece of cinnamon, 3 cloves, and 1/2 teaspoon of fennel.

Seasoning: spicy hot pot base, 2 tablespoons of light soy sauce, 2 tablespoons of cooking wine, 5 crystal sugars, 2 teaspoons of salt, and some dried chili peppers, scallions, and ginger slices.

Seasoning packet: 2 star anise, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, 1 cardamom, 1 cinnamon stick, 3 cloves, 1/2 teaspoon fennel.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Remove the hair from the pig's trotters, clean them, cut them in half and cut them into pieces; add water to the pot, put the pig's trotters in, add cooking wine, scallions, ginger slices and a small amount of peppercorns and boil over high heat;

2. After the pot boils, skim off the foam, remove the pig's trotters and drain the water for later use; take about 2 tablespoons of spicy hot pot base, if you like spicy food, you can increase it;

3. Wash the pot and add the hot pot base. Because the base contains oil, there is no need to add cooking oil separately; add scallion, ginger and star anise; stir-fry the pot base over medium-low heat;

4. Add the pig's trotters and stir-fry for a few times, then add soy sauce, cooking wine, and rock sugar; mix all the dry spices in the seasoning bag and put them into the seasoning bag;

5. Add hot water. Because it is a hot pot, you can use more water. Then add the seasoning packet and dry chili peppers. After boiling, turn to low heat and cover the lid and simmer for 1 hour.

6. After one hour, add salt to season and continue cooking for about 40 minutes. If there is too little soup, you can add hot water.

【Soy sauce chicken hotpot】

Ingredients: half a three-yellow chicken, 3 dried mushrooms, 1 carrot, some fried tofu, 7 dried scallops, 1 scallion, 1 piece of ginger, 4 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 teaspoon sesame oil, 1 tablespoon starch, some salt, 1 teaspoon pepper, 1 tablespoon rice wine, 1 teaspoon glutinous rice wine. Steps:

1. Take half a three-yellow chicken, cut off the chicken breast and remove the chicken thighs; wash the blood from the chicken bones as much as possible, put the chicken bones and chicken skin into a casserole and boil; after boiling, skim off the foam and pour in soy sauce and ginger slices;

2. Add dried scallops and wolfberries, and simmer over medium-low heat for 1 hour (adding dried scallops, dried squid, conch slices and other dried seafood to enhance the flavor of the soup); add seasonings to the chicken thighs, mix well, and marinate;

3. Chop the chicken breast into small pieces with a knife or blend it into minced meat using a blender, add chopped green onion, ginger and seasonings and mix well;

4. Use a spoon to take an appropriate amount of meat filling and roll it into balls in your palm;

5. Cut carrots into pieces, cut wormwood stalks into sections, slice mushrooms and bean curd, and place them in the hot pot, then add the broth.

What are the precautions for eating hot pot?

1. Eat vegetarian food first, then meat

From a health perspective, when eating hot pot, you should eat vegetables first and then meat, and it is best to eat potatoes and sweet potatoes first. Because potatoes and sweet potatoes contain a lot of starch, they have the characteristics of both "staple food" and "vegetables". Eating some starchy foods first when eating meat can protect the stomach and intestines, and on the other hand, it can avoid the waste of protein caused by eating meat first.

2. Avoid eating half-cooked food

In pursuit of delicious taste, many people often eat food before it is fully cooked, but the fresh food on the table often contains pathogenic microorganisms and parasite eggs. It must be cooked thoroughly in boiling soup to kill the pathogenic microorganisms and parasites before eating.

3. Control your eating time

Some people eat for several hours at a time, which will cause the gastric juice, bile, pancreatic juice and other digestive juices to be continuously secreted. The glands cannot get a normal rest, leading to gastrointestinal dysfunction and abdominal pain, diarrhea. In addition, cooking the soup base for too long will cause a high purine content, which is not good for health.

4. Food temperature should be appropriate

The oral cavity, esophagus and gastric mucosa of a person can generally only tolerate temperatures of 50°C to 60°C. Too hot food can damage the mucosa and lead to acute esophagitis and acute gastritis. Therefore, when taking out the hot hot pot food from the pot, it is best to put it in a small dish to cool before eating.

Can corn shoots be eaten in hot pot?

Can.

The origin of corn shoots is the same as that of sweet corn, with no essential difference. The difference from sweet corn is that corn shoots can be eaten with the seeds and ears together, but corn shoots are also rich in nutrients such as protein, vitamins, and sugar, and have relatively high edible and nutritional values. Secondly, there are no dietary taboos for corn shoots, and they can be fried or boiled, so corn shoots can be eaten in hot pot.

Can I eat hot pot the next day?

The nitrite content in hot pot soup gradually increases after 30 minutes of cooking. Long-term high-temperature cooking of meat will release amines that react with nitrite to produce carcinogenic nitrosamines. Overnight hot pot soup contains more harmful substances and cannot be drunk.

The leftover hot pot food that has been cooked overnight cannot be eaten, especially leafy vegetables, because there are many nitrates in leafy vegetables. After being cooked overnight, the nitrates will be converted into nitrites, which are highly carcinogenic. In addition, the nutritional value will decrease, and the taste and flavor of the food will also deteriorate a lot.

Uncooked ingredients can be placed in the refrigerator and used for cooking the next day if they are not spoiled. However, washed leafy vegetables are prone to rot, and rotten vegetables cannot be eaten because the nitrates in the vegetables will be converted into nitrites. The nitrosamines formed in the body are recognized as carcinogens worldwide.

If you eat hot pot soup overnight, it may cause poisoning, with symptoms such as headache, dizziness, nausea, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. In addition, the purine content in hot pot is very high, so gout patients are strictly prohibited from eating it, otherwise it will easily aggravate gout.

Anyone who experiences the above-mentioned physical discomfort should stop eating hot pot and go to the hospital for examination and treatment immediately if necessary.