Hot pot
A spicy hot pot soup with pork and noodles cooked in a ginger-garlic broth. Ready in about half an hour; adjust the heat with chili paste in each bowl.
Ingredients
- 200 g pork loin
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- 80 g noodles
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 1 tbsp five-spice powder
- 20 whole black peppercorns
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp cane sugar
- 1 whole garlic bulb
- 1 l water
- 1 tbsp hot chili paste to taste, on top of each serving
Instructions
- Bring 1 liter of water to a boil in a saucepan. Add the ginger, five-spice powder, peppercorns, soy sauce and cane sugar. Cut a whole garlic bulb in half with a knife and add it to the pan as is. Let the broth simmer over low heat while you prepare the pork.
- Cut the pork into thin strips. Heat the oil in a frying pan and brown the strips over high heat (about 3–4 min). Transfer the pork to the saucepan.
- Pour a cup of hot broth from the saucepan into the frying pan and scrape the browned bits off the bottom with a spatula. Pour the liquid back into the saucepan.
- Add the noodles and cook for a couple of minutes, as they keep cooking while the soup rests. The thinly sliced pork cooks through in this time too.
- Remove the pan from the heat, cover with a lid and let rest for about 15 minutes.
- Ladle into bowls and finish with chili paste to taste.
Notes
- Brown the pork in two batches if needed. An overcrowded pan cools down, and the meat starts to stew in its own juices.
- Don't leave the browned bits in the pan. Rinse them into the pot with broth, as they give the soup its deepest flavor.
- The noodles keep cooking while the soup rests, so cook them a little less than the package directs.
- Five-spice blends vary in strength. Taste the broth before adding the noodles.
- You can fish out the peppercorns and garlic halves before serving.
- Chicken breast or firm tofu work in place of pork, and regular sugar in place of cane sugar.
Nutrition
Calories: 275kcalCarbohydrates: 18gProtein: 12gFat: 18gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 33mgSodium: 951mgPotassium: 317mgFiber: 1gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 17IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 32mgIron: 2mg
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