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How to Make Hot Pot Broth

How to make hot pot soup base at home, two versions included.

Ingredients

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1 to mato (cut into wedges)
1 long green onion (cut the white part into small sections)
1 small bunch of bean sprouts
2 celery sections (cut into 1 inch sections)
half of a corn (cut into 2-3 cm thick pieces)
3 shiitake mushrooms (remove the ends)
3 L light stock
2 tsp. salt
3 tbsp. beef tallow
2-3 slices of ginger
4 long green onion sections
5-8 garlic cloves
3 L light stock
3 tbsp. Doubanjiang
3 tbsp. chopped chili pepper (糍粑辣椒)
1 tsp. Sichuan peppercorn
1 star anise
12 to 25 dried chili peppers (depending on how hot you want the soup base to be.)
1 tbsp. light soy sauce

1
In a large pot with water, add chicken, pig bones, white peppercorn, long green onion and ginger. Bring to a boiling and skim any floats on the surface. Slow down the fire and continue simmer for 1 hour.
2
In your serving pot, add tomatoes, 2-3 shiitake mushrooms, red dates, scallion sections, celery and 3 sections of corns. Season with 2 teaspoons of salt and load with 3 L light stock.
3
Soak 50g dried chili pepper in hot boiling water for 30 minutes, covered please. Then transfer out and finely mashed.
4
Melt a beef tallow in a pot, fry ginger, scallion and cloves until aromatic.
5
Place in all the seasonings including doubanjiang, chopped red peppers and other seasonings (or a store bough package). Fry over slowest fire for 1-2 minutes until the oil turn red. Pour in light stock prepared previously and light soy sauce. Simmer for 15 minutes over slowest fire.