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Hot pot soup broth

Soup bones
Chicken
Carrots
Celeri
Ginger
Onions
Tomato slices

Cut the chicken into large chunks. Clean chicken chunks, and pig bones. Cut ginger into slices, tomato into slices, scallions into sections, carrots into cubes and celery into small section.

Prepare a pot or wok with enough water. Bring the water to a boiling. And add chicken and pig bones in. Turn down the fire and cook the blood water out. Transfer out and wash with warm water.

Clean your pot or prepare another one. Add enough water. Return the chicken and pig bones back. Add ginger slices, carrot cubes, scallions sections and tomato slices in to. Add 3 teaspoon salt or as needed.

Bring all the content to a boiling and then turn down the fire to simmer for around 40 minutes to 1 hour.

To make a spicy hot pot broth:

1. Follow the steps above to make a clear version of hot pot broth.

2. Prepare a small piece of ginger, 1 teaspoon of Sichuan Peppercorn, 1 tablespoon dried chili pepper or sambal oelek, several star anise, several chunks of cassia bark, 1/2 teaspoon of fennel. Cut ginger and garlic into slices.

Prepare a wok, heat up some cooking oil. Add ginger to stir-fry for about 2 minutes. Then add other spices in.

Pour the clear version soup base introduced above to the wok. Turn down the fire to simmer for about 20 to 40 minutes until you can smell the aroma of the spices. Then start our lovely hot pot journey.

We put in:
Homemade meatballs
Sliced cod filet
Sliced beef rump steak
Sliced chicken breast
Sliced Chinese cabbage
Corn on the segments
Quick cook ramen noodles