Chongqing

Mala hot pot at home

Name: Mala hot pot at home
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 4 tbsp cooking oil (vegetable oil); 4 tbsp chilli bean paste doubanjiang; 20 snipped dried red chilli; 1 heaped tbsp sichuan peppercorn; a thumb sliced ginger; 1 head cloves smashed garlic; 2 pods star anise; 1 cinnamon stick 2 black cardamom whole spices; 3 bay leaf (indian bay leaf); 6 cups stock or water water; Salt, to taste; 300 g very thinly sliced (or chicken) beef; 200 g cleaned prawns (shrimp); 200 g in slabs firm tofu; 1/2 head in chunks napa cabbage (wombok, chinese leaf); 200 g mixed mushrooms button mushroom; 4 small heads halved bok choy (pak choi); 100 g soaked sweet potato glass noodles (glass noodles, cellophane noodles); 2 tbsp for the dip sesame oil; a handful for the dip coriander leaves (cilantro)

Dinner where everyone cooks and nobody does the dishes alone. Bring patience and napkins.

60 minTime

43 gProtein each

hotSpice

A pot for the whole table2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayA Chongqing style mala broth with dippers and a sesame oil dip.

The original

641kcalsame

43 gproteinsame

7 gfibresame

60minutessame

Mala hot pot, home style.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)4 tbsp

Doubanjiang4 tbsp chilli bean paste

Dried red chilli20, snipped

Sichuan peppercorn1 heaped tbsp

Gingera thumb, sliced

Garlic1 head, cloves smashed

Star anise2 pods

Whole spices1 cinnamon stick, 2 black cardamom

Bay leaf (indian bay leaf)3

Water6 cups stock or water

Saltto taste

Beef300 g, very thinly sliced (or chicken)

Prawns (shrimp)200 g, cleaned

Firm tofu200 g, in slabs

Napa cabbage (wombok, chinese leaf)½ head, in chunks

Button mushroom200 g mixed mushrooms

Bok choy (pak choi)4 small heads, halved

Sweet potato glass noodles (glass noodles, cellophane noodles)100 g, soaked

Sesame oil2 tbsp, for the dip

Coriander leaves (cilantro)a handful, for the dip

Method

6 steps

1Heat the oil and fry the chilli bean paste on low until the oil turns red.
2Add the chillies, Sichuan pepper, ginger, garlic and whole spices. Fry 2 minutes.
3Pour in the water, add salt and simmer for 20 minutes.
4Arrange the meat, prawns, tofu, vegetables and noodles on plates. Set up the dip: sesame oil, a little garlic, salt and coriander per person.
5Move the pot to an induction or gas burner at the table and keep it at a simmer.
6Cook as you eat: beef 30 to 60 seconds, prawns 2 to 3 minutes until pink, tofu and vegetables 3 to 5 minutes, noodles last.

Serve it like this

Set the pot in the centre on a portable burner, with raw dippers on platters around it and a small bowl of sesame oil dip for each person.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Chongqing

Mala hot pot at home

Dinner where everyone cooks and nobody does the dishes alone. Bring patience and napkins.

60 minTime

43 gProtein each

hotSpice

A pot for the whole table2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayA Chongqing style mala broth with dippers and a sesame oil dip.

The original

641kcalsame

43 gproteinsame

7 gfibresame

60minutessame

Mala hot pot, home style.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)4 tbsp

Doubanjiang4 tbsp chilli bean paste

Dried red chilli20, snipped

Sichuan peppercorn1 heaped tbsp

Gingera thumb, sliced

Garlic1 head, cloves smashed

Star anise2 pods

Whole spices1 cinnamon stick, 2 black cardamom

Bay leaf (indian bay leaf)3

Water6 cups stock or water

Saltto taste

Beef300 g, very thinly sliced (or chicken)

Prawns (shrimp)200 g, cleaned

Firm tofu200 g, in slabs

Napa cabbage (wombok, chinese leaf)½ head, in chunks

Button mushroom200 g mixed mushrooms

Bok choy (pak choi)4 small heads, halved

Sweet potato glass noodles (glass noodles, cellophane noodles)100 g, soaked

Sesame oil2 tbsp, for the dip

Coriander leaves (cilantro)a handful, for the dip

Method

6 steps

1Heat the oil and fry the chilli bean paste on low until the oil turns red.
2Add the chillies, Sichuan pepper, ginger, garlic and whole spices. Fry 2 minutes.
3Pour in the water, add salt and simmer for 20 minutes.
4Arrange the meat, prawns, tofu, vegetables and noodles on plates. Set up the dip: sesame oil, a little garlic, salt and coriander per person.
5Move the pot to an induction or gas burner at the table and keep it at a simmer.
6Cook as you eat: beef 30 to 60 seconds, prawns 2 to 3 minutes until pink, tofu and vegetables 3 to 5 minutes, noodles last.

Serve it like this

Set the pot in the centre on a portable burner, with raw dippers on platters around it and a small bowl of sesame oil dip for each person.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Mala hot pot at home

Make it your way

Ingredients

Method

Mala hot pot at home

Make it your way

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