Eatoo: Hot Pot Set for 2 at Home

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Sharing a hot pot is a form of love and friendship. It is an experience. What’s more unifying than dipping your chopsticks in a scolding hot broth together?

There are so many different variations of hot pot, every Chinese household tends to have their style of broth and sauces. The original was said to have been introduced by the Mongolian Empire. It was claimed that Mongol warriors and horsemen would use their metal helmets to hold and cook the water; all circled around a fire. Other sources claim that the hot pot was invented by boatmen in Chongqing who were after a simple and cheap way to cook

From Mongolia to China, from Japan to Korea, hotpot has become a widely common style of eating throughout Asia and elsewhere.

The three main components of hot pot include:

1. Broth

2. Dipping ingredients

3. Sauces

The most common style broth is the collagen enrich chicken bone broth with goji berries and ginger. A classic.

Alternatively there is the numbing spicy Chongqing variant, which has a choke hold full of Sichuan peppercorns, red chillies, and spices. It’s fiery and slow burn make this an incredibly popular choice. Perfect for nights as it grows colder day by day.

Eatoo were kind to send me over a hot pot set enough for 2 people for £37.50. The hot pot broth is a separate cost from £7 for a half portion (feeds 2), £14 for a whole portion (feeds 4).

I plumped for the chilli base soup and for the dipping ingredients was sent:

• fresh prawns

• USDA Beef Short Rib Slices

• beancurd rolls

• tofu

• Enoki mushrooms

• Chinese cabbage

• Tong Ho – Edible Chrysanthemum

• Noodles/udon

• Fresh fruit including lychees, and dragon fruit

Assembling this was super easy.

All I had to do was convert my rice cooker into a hot steam boat, and throw in the frozen soup base and top with water & hit the cook button.

Then wash all of the vegetables & chop up the tofu into bite sized pieces as I waited for the soup base to cook.

Once ready, you just throw in everything you want to eat into one pot.

Let the chopstick fighting commence!

Sauces is usually a DIY process with:

• roasted sesame paste

• soy sauce

• chilli oil

• minced garlic

• spring onions

• coriander

• sesame oil

• Oyster sauce

All mixed up to your taste & you would just dip your cooked meat and vegetables into this wondrous concoction.

Yummei’s?
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Super easy to cook this at home
That chilli broth was insanely flavourful and packed a spice punch
Diverse range of ingredients if you do not live close by an asian supermarket

Where?
Hot Pot Set for 2 £37.50
Chilli base £7.00
https://www.eatoo.co.uk/collections
Delivery to London and nationwide in the UK