HOW TO MAKE HOTPOT SAUCE RECIPES

Steps:

• Each of the ingredients above is a dipping sauce, all by itself, other than the sichuan pepper and salt.
• Provide small bowls of each dip for each individual diner.
• ============= Sichuan Pepper Salt ============.
• Dry roast the Sichuan peppers until they are fragrant -- do NOT burn them.
• Using a coffee grinder or mortar and pestle, grind the peppers.
• You may either serve the pepper and salt in individual dipping bowls or you can mix the salt and pepper to create a single dipping ingredient.

Steps:

• Partially frozen is significantly easier to cut into thin slices, since it holds its shape when you cut it.
• Wash and rinse your vegetables / mushrooms. If you're using tofu (make sure it's firm), then cut it into cubes.
• Before my dad starts cutting meat (or anything), he usually puts a towel underneath the cutting board so it's more stable. Speaking from decades of experience, this helped him avoid many cuts (but not all) in the kitchen.
• This is much clearer in the video, but here are my dad's steps to preparing fresh squid for hot pot:
• We'll cut our about half of our tilapia fillets into ~1 cm slices, and marinate it with salt, cornstarch, water, and white pepper (to taste).
• My dad's epic homemade fish balls deserve their own recipe page (will be live soon).
• All we need to do is peel our daikon, cut it in half, and then cut it up into about 1 cm slices. We'll start boiling our hot pot broth with daikon, and then eat it at the end after it's soaked up all of the delicious flavors from the other foods.
• For my dad's dipping sauce, we'll be mixing light soy sauce, Shacha sauce, olive oil, sesame oil, oyster sauce, salt, sugar, chicken bouillon, chili oil, and boiled water.