Homemade clear soup hotpot base

There are hot and spicy red soups like Sichuan hot pot, and there are also light and non-greasy clear soups. Clear soup hot pot has many benefits, and it is also very simple to make yourself. Here is how to make your own clear soup hot pot base.

Homemade clear soup hotpot base

1. Homemade clear soup hotpot base: three-bone base

Step 1: Prepare 300 grams each of pork bones, beef bones and chicken feet, 10 grams of ginger, wolfberry, jujube, pepper and salt, green onions and MSG.

Step 2: Clean the three kinds of bones, chop the beef bones and pork bones first, smash the ginger into pieces, and tie the green onions into knots for later use.

Step 3: Blanch all three kinds of bones in boiling water, then add green onions and cooking wine to remove the fishy smell.

Step 4: After changing to a new pot of water, put the three kinds of bones in and start cooking the soup base. When it boils over high heat, switch to low heat.

Step 5: Slow cook until the soup turns milky white, then filter out the meat residue and foam on top and take the clear soup.

Step 6: Add chicken essence, MSG, red dates, peppercorns and wolfberries to the clear soup, and add salt to taste.

2. Homemade clear soup hotpot base: mutton offal hotpot base

Step 1: Prepare appropriate amounts of mutton offal, mutton, mutton bones, onions, ginger, almonds, cinnamon, angelica, longan meat, garlic sprouts, and cardamom.

Step 2: Bring a pot of water to a boil, add mutton offal, mutton and mutton bones, and skim off the foam while cooking.

Step 3: Put angelica, longan meat and other spices and herbs into the pot and boil together, then add green onions and ginger.

Step 4: Boil all the ingredients together for more than an hour, then add the garlic sprouts at the end.