🇨🇳 Chinese Cuisine

四川火锅 (Sichuan Huo Guo)

Sichuan Hot Pot

Prep Time 90 minutes
Servings 6
Difficulty Medium

A communal dining experience where diners cook raw meats and vegetables in a bubbling broth of dried chilies, Sichuan peppercorns, and beef tallow.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Melt beef tallow and fry chilies, peppercorns, and doubanjiang until oil is red.
  2. 2 Add ginger, garlic, whole spices, cook five minutes, then add stock.
  3. 3 Simmer thirty minutes for rich broth.
  4. 4 Set pot on table burner with raw ingredients arranged around it.
  5. 5 Diners cook items in broth and dip in sesame oil with garlic.

Did You Know?

Sichuan hot pot originated with Yangtze River dock workers in Chongqing who cooked cheap offal in spicy broth.