Beef Bone Hot Pot Base Recipe

Name: Beef Bone Hot Pot Base Recipe
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 1 h 5 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 2 Servings
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: green onions: 1; ginger: 1; garlic clove: 5; beef bone: 500g; soup stock: 8 bowls; dried red chiles: 5; star anise: 2; Sichuan pepper: 1 tablespoon; Chinese cabbage: 1/2; shiitake mushroom: 5; potatoes: 1; sweet potatos: 1; daikon: 1; Enoki mushroom: 200g; corn: 1; fish tofu: 500g; fishballs: 500g; lamb rolls: 500g; oil: 3 tablespoons; sugar: 1/2 tablespoon; salt: 2 teaspoons; cooking wine: 1 tablespoon; dark soy sauce: 1 tablespoon

Features:

Cuisine:

China

The beef bone hot pot base has a strong bone flavor and delicately mushroom’s sweetness. First, we fried green onions, garlic, and ginger with a little oil. Then, to have a deep taste, we fried star anise, red chilies and shiitake mushroom with beef bones to draw out excess moisture. After that, simmering for 1-2 hour to fortify bones aroma.

90 minutes
Serves 2
Easy

Ingredients

1 green onions
1 ginger
5 garlic clove
500g beef bone
8 bowls soup stock
5 dried red chiles
2 star anise
1 tablespoon Sichuan pepper
1/2 Chinese cabbage
5 shiitake mushroom
1 potatoes
1 sweet potatos
1 daikon
200g Enoki mushroom
1 corn
500g fish tofu
500g fishballs
500g lamb rolls
seasoning
3 tablespoons oil
1/2 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon cooking wine
1 tablespoon dark soy sauce

Directions

Tips

1. Boil beef bones with cold water can effectively remove blood taste and bad smell.

2. You can add chicken stock or beef stock when stewing the beef bones. Or you can simply add chicken powder and water instead.

3. Do not add too much dark soy sauce. Its feature is for coloring, too much dark soy sauce results in a salty soup.

Steps

1 Done 5 minutes	Remove root of green onions, then wash and clean. Cut into strips. Peel ginger and garlic, cut into slices. Set aside.
2 Done 5 minutes	Remove root of cabbage, wash and clean. Peel potatoes, sweet potatoes, and daikon. Cut into 0.3 cm slices. Remove the stem of shiitake mushroom and enoki mushroom, then wash until clean. Set aside.
3 Done 5 minutes	Wash beef bones, put them into cold water. Bring to a boil. Skim floating foam. Remove from heat and drain.
4 Done 5 minutes	Add oil to wok, preheat the oil and fry green onions, ginger, garlic until fragrant.
5 Done 5 minutes	Add beef bone, season with sugar, salt, cooking wine. Add soup stock until cover beef bones.
6 Done 5 minutes	Pour into dark soy sauce for coloring.
7 Done 5 minutes	Add dried red pepper, star anise, Sichuan pepper. Bring to a boil over high heat and continue to cook for 3 minutes.
8 Done 60 minutes	Switch to low heat to simmer for 1 hour to make a hot pot base. When having hot pot, simply bring the hot pot base to a boil again, then you can boil every ingredient with a delicious taste.