Hot pot is a very popular dish in Vietnam nowadays. Not only do people go to restaurants to eat hot pot, but also most families love to gather around a hot pot for special occasions, meals, or home gatherings. A delicious hot pot is made up of many elements, but the most important one is the broth. The ingredients for hot pot are fresh and diverse, such as chicken, seafood, ribs, and quail eggs. However, to make a flavorful and enticing hot pot, you need to know how to make a delicious broth. Let’s learn some tips for making a tasty hot pot broth so that you can impress your loved ones and friends with your cooking skills!
The first step in making a delicious hot pot broth is to choose fresh and live ingredients, and then apply suitable cooking techniques. In addition, each type of hot pot requires specific seasonings. Therefore, depending on the ingredients, you need to have the appropriate seasonings.
For chicken and pork hot pot, you should not use the head bones as they can create a foul smell. Instead, choose chicken feet and pork tail bones, which will make the broth sweet and aromatic. Especially for these two types of hot pot, you should only use pure chicken and pork bones without adding any other sour or sweet seasonings, as they will take away the natural sweetness of the broth. For chicken hot pot, you can grill dried onions and ginger, then crush them and add them to the broth, along with seasonings and broth cubes for the perfect taste. You can also add lemongrass, pineapple, and tomatoes. When preparing the hot pot, add Chinese herbs and soaked mushrooms, chili sauce, and serve with cilantro, water spinach, and amaranth.
For hot pots with ingredients from livestock, you need to add ginger, grilled purple onions, galangal, lemongrass, and sassafras. Beef broth cannot be without seasonings such as cinnamon, star anise, clove, ginger, and dried onions. Grilled ginger and onions should not be burnt. The red skin of the dried onions helps the broth to be more flavorful and beautiful. Besides, you can break the star anise into petals, break the cinnamon into small pieces, and take the golden dried fruits from the cloves. Then, use a clean cloth to rub and crush them, wrap them in a clean cloth, and put them into the broth. On top of the beef broth, there is usually a layer of fat to keep the heat and preserve the aromatic essential oils.
For mixed hot pot, you don’t need to add Chinese herbs. Serve it with water spinach, various cabbage, and fresh mushrooms.
Seafood hot pot should include pineapple, ginger, lemongrass, celery, and chili sauce. The taste can vary depending on each family’s preference. Seafood hot pot is usually slightly spicy, tangy, and sweet. For fish hot pot, in addition to pork bones, you should also add filtered fish bones to the broth. For seafood hot pot, you don’t need to grill ginger and onions, but you should increase the sour taste compared to other types. After filtering the fish, slice it, marinate it with seasonings, broth cubes, ginger, and minced lemongrass. When preparing the hot pot, add seaweed, watercress, and shredded daisy.
Cooking Time for Hot Pot Broth
When putting blanched bones into cold water, you should boil them quickly over high heat, then reduce the heat to simmer for a few minutes until the impurities coagulate and skim them off. Throughout the rest of the process, simmer the broth over low heat.
Depending on the ingredients, the cooking time for each type of hot pot broth varies. For example, chicken and pork broth is usually cooked for 4 – 6 hours. Beef broth takes longer, from 8 – 10 hours. Seafood broth should not be cooked for more than 45 minutes, otherwise it will become cloudy and sour.
For beef bones, especially beef leg bones, before simmering, you should grill them at high temperature so that the broth will be more fragrant, clear, and delicious.
How to Fix Cloudy Hot Pot Broth
Add beaten egg whites to the cooled broth, then heat it gently while stirring constantly to collect the impurities with the egg whites and remove them.
Chop the meat (depending on the type of hot pot ingredients) and mix it with beaten egg whites and soaked mushrooms. Then add the mixture to the cooled broth to make it clear and tastier.
If your chicken hot pot broth is cloudy, add more chicken bones and simmer them to make the broth clearer and more flavorful.
There’s nothing better than enjoying a hot pot on cold days, especially in winter, sitting around a hot pot filled with delicious broth and smoke, chatting and having fun together. Hopefully, the above tips will help you have more ways to make a delicious and flavorful hot pot broth!
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