Last night, we invited Bernie and Erika for a hot pot dinner. This dish is so easy because you just prep vegetables, tofu, noodles, mushrooms, and paper thin slices of rib eye meat and broil it in one giant pot over a small burner in hot simmering chicken or beef broth and let your guests add the prepped ingredients to the hotpot.
Each person has a sauce they dip the veggies and the meat into, after they fish the cooked items off the hot pot. I use a Chinese hot and spicy BBQ sauce which you can get from any Asian market. Just add two heaping spoon of the Chinese BBQ sauce, and mix it with sesame oil, soy sauce to taste, with chopped green onions.
I love using these tiny Chinese vegetables- since they cook up with the broth, this dish is also super healthy!
Using fresh egg noodles in the hot pot is a MUST- it cooks fast and soaks up the sauce like a sponge. Yum!
And at last, thin ribeye shabu meat. This packet fed 4 people and my dog since there were so many vegetables added to the hot pot. Other ingredients I used (not pictured) were snow peas, mushrooms, some other varieties of chinese broccoli, extra firm tofu, and organic chicken broth. This dish can be customized to any thing you wish.
Perfect way to spend a Friday night. Martini was a drink of choice, but beer also compliments the dish.
1 comment:
This looks super yummy Jen! I don't eat red meat, so I think I will substitute with bean curd or chicken. Thanks!
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