How To Make Hot Pot at Home: Hot Pot Recipe & Ingredients (Easy Dinner Ideas!)

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It's getting colder here in Sydney and what better time to have hot pot?! It's actually so easy to cook hot pot at home; well not cook because there's barely anything to cook. All you gotta do is buy all the right ingredients, get a good soup base, get a good pot for hot pot and you're off to the races.

Now what you put in this pot is really completely up to you, but here's'a list of my go-to whenever i have Chinese Hot Pot at home.

Things I always buy when i have Chinese Hot Pot at Home:
0. Soup Base
1. Meats: Fatty Beef, Pork & Ox Tongue
2. Fish balls, Beef balls, Pork balls
3. Fish paste
4. Tofu & Fried Tofu
5. Veggies: Corn, watercress, chinese lettuce, Tong Ho, Raddish, Enoki Mushrooms
6. Noodles: Udon is my preference
7. Frozen Wontons
8. Hot Pot Sauces: Soy Sauce, Sesame Oil, chopped garlic, chopped spring onions, chili garlic, satay sauce.

My go-to sauce mix is 1 part soy sauce, 1 part sesame oil, 1 tsp chopped garlic, 1 tsp spring onions.

Hot Pot Drinks of choice:
Now i think having a drink is a necessity when you have hot pot - beers, sugar cane juice, aloe vera, soft drink. just drink whatever you want.

How To Make Chinese Hot Pot (steamboat) at Home: Hot Pot Recipe & Ingredients (Easy Dinner Ideas!)

[fonzmendez]

I watched a video that got me absolutely intrigued, now I’m stuck buying equipment and ingredients.. wish me luck I’m so excited

[avimehenwal]

Both my neighbours are chinese and they have offered me hot-pot multiple times .... watching this video because next is my turn XD hope you have a wonder day

[ericeaton]

I love all the random comments from your family. My sister does youtube too and so I see all the hard work you put in! It looks great!

[gracehc]

I came across this video cos I needed a recipe and I can't believe this was filmed in Eastwood the area I grew up! Thabk you for sharing this video and what a delightful surprise

[darlene]

So, this Canadian - Irish family decided to try Hot Pot! Your video was the ONLY ONE I watched and it gave me the confidence to do it. My kitchen is a disaster because we really just got over taken by the fun gathering but we can clean up later! So much fun!!! Great flavour! We put steamed pork buns in and they fell apart...perhaps not meant to be in the soup and only steamed. LOL

[williammckinlay]

I love your videos, I love Asian food so watching your videos gives me lots of ideas for cooking meals for my daughter who is Thai. I’m Scottish by heritage but have spent a lot of time in south east Asia where I met my daughter’s mother.

[janicesmyth]

Thank you I'll be sure to share this with my grandkids! You're a beautiful person and I hope to see more recipes from you!

[shaunyuen]

I literally was just thinking about where in Eastwood I could go for HP ingredients! Thanks Janice :)

[Serjohn]

I tried this with my family, my cousin said can i get my soup seperate ? Then I told her the culture around hotpot and she said she wants her soup seperate. So my aunt ended up spliting the soup into 6 bowls. I think the important part this video left out is that in asia its ok to say shut up dont be picky, in the west we dont question why someone wants a cup or another fork or why they dont like garlic, we respect it, thats their choice.

[annagower]

I just had this for dinner with the kids, used the spicy seasoning in one and a chicken broth in the other. Soooo good. Kids loved the experience of the fire at the table. N we added skirt beef chopped finely and so yummy

[daviddavid]

I'm jazzed to try this with my family. Excited. The sauce bit is a bit of a mystery. There's just SO many sauces in the Asian Market. So many! (I'm often thinking "This just isn't fair. I want to try them all and I won't live long enough") Thanks for posting this.

[lifewithlian]

Hi Janice, I've just binged on your channel. You brought back so much nostalgia from my childhood, the faves and whatnots. I like your rustic and unassuming style to food. Good on you.

[BennyC-qgrd]

Great video! I've been making Hot Pot as a Sunday meal for many years. After watching your video, I realize I had been doing it all wrong. I've been using pork hocks, baby bok choy, broccoli, bean sprouts dried black mushrooms, Chinese (napa) cabbage, and chicken broth to form the soup base. I will try some of your ingredients.

[feedmeimei]

Yasss enoki mushrooms!!! Definitely a must for hotpot 😍

[unknownunknown]

Thank you for sharing this. I hear a lot about hotpot in China but I didn't know how involved it was. This was very educational.

[kenshirome]

Making hotpot tonight and this definitely helped! I'm also making those mock rice cakes out of rolled up rice paper.

[DoubleDrsLife]

Great video!
I always make hotpot too! Ever since I introduce this food to my husband and his family, they just fall in love with it. So I always make it for them when we are together. I even made a video for them to follow whenever they want to make hotpot themselves, lol. I like to make some sesame and peanut paste dipping sauce. It's delicious! We all love it.

[devankathryn]

After I tried hot pot for the first time I was obsessed! So yummy on a cold day

[djpamelamc]

Thank you so much for sharing as this is going to be so amazing. I bought a hot pot and l am so looking forward to doing my first ever Hot Pot Mukbang. You are wonderful. Yummy yay.

[Athithan_]

YO SAME!!! Me and my mom feel like if
we don’t eat rice at some point in the day
something is missing!