CHINESE FIRE POT RECIPE

This recipe will teach you how to make Chinese Fire Pot. It is a quick and easy recipe to make. This recipe of Chinese Fire Pot is great to have when you are just having a few close friends around. I love having the Chinese Fire Pot when my husband and I are having a night on our own especially in winter as we start the fire up and sit in front of it with our Chinese Fire Pot.

Chinese Fire Pot Ingredients

soy sauce
lemon juice
1 lb fish fillets
2 bunch spinach
1 lb medium shrimp
4 cans chicken broth
1 lb chinese cabbage
2 bunch green onions
sweet and sour sauce
1/2 lb fresh mushrooms
3/4 lb chinese pea pods
1 lb boneless beef sirloin
1 lb boned chicken breasts
2 packets enoki mushrooms
prepared hot chinese mustard
1/4 lb fine egg noodles cooked
8 oz canned bamboo shoots drained and sliced
8 oz canned water chestnuts drained and sliced

Chinese Fire Pot Method

Place chicken, fish and beef in freezer and chill until firm to touch but not frozen When firm take out of the freezer and slice chicken and beef in strips 1/4 inch thick and about 2 inches long. Cut fish into 3/4 inch cubes and shell and devein shrimp. Chop cabbage into bite size chunks. Clean mushrooms and remove and discard stems. Slice mushrooms and sprinkle with lemon juice. Cut off and discard root portion of enoki mushrooms and separate clusters as much as possible. Wash and trim ends and string pea pods. Clean green onions and cut in halves lengthwise including green portion and then cut into 2 inch lengths. Clean spinach and discard thick stems.

To serve arrange chicken, fish, beef, shrimp, cabbage, forest mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, snow peas, green onions, spinach leaves, water chestnuts and bamboo shoots in individual rows on large platter or serving plates. Bring broth to boil. Place heating unit under Chinese hot pot and pour boiling broth into hot pot bowl. Using Chinese wire ladle and chopsticks or fondue forks each person places whatever ingredients are desired into hot broth to poach. When Chinese Fire Pot are cooked ingredients are then dipped into sweet-and-sour sauce, soy sauce or hot mustard as desired and eaten with noodles.

Enjoy your freshly made Chinese Fire Pot!