Betty Turpins Hot Pot Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Put 1 cup of water into a pot. Add beef, lightly peppered and salted, and cook over low heat until it is tender - about 1 hour. Remove meat, tent with foil and set aside.
• 2. Increase heat to medium and stir to thicken gravy. Pour gravy over meat and cover with the foil to keep warm.
• 3. While meat cooks, place potatoes in a pot and add water to just cover potatoes. Add carrots and onions. Bring water to a boil, reduce heat, cover pan, and cook until vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes. Mash veggies into a puree, adding salt and pepper.
• 4. To serve, place vegetable puree on a platter, cover with sliced meat and gravy. Have mustard on table for people to help themselves.

Steps:

• Cut an "X" at the top of the mushroom.
• Cut fish, and chicken into 1 1/2 inches squares.
• Soak clams in salted water for 5 to 6 hours to remove sand and rise well.
• Boil cabbage and spinach lightly.
• Put 3 cabbage leaves down on sushi mat, put par boiled spinach inside and roll.
• Cut into 1 1/2 inch pieces.
• Put Dashi, soy sauce, mirin, and sake in the pot, bring to boil.
• Put chicken, seafood, and vegetables in the order of time required cooking time.
• When cooking time is done, spoon in ingredients, into a bowl, serve with some ponzu-joyu sauce.

Steps:

• For the pork broth: Fill a 7-quart Dutch oven with 12 cups cold water and bring to a boil. Meanwhile, soak the pork bones in cold water in a large bowl, to remove some of the blood, for about 20 minutes or until the water boils. Add the bones to the pot and boil until the water darkens and there's a lot of foam on the surface, about 8 minutes. Drain and rinse the bones and clean the pot of any residue.
• Return the pork bones to the pot and add the carrots, corn, daikon and 16 cups cold water. Bring to a boil over high heat and then reduce the heat and simmer, covered, until the broth is very milky, about 2 1/2 hours. Skim off any dark proteins and fat, then lightly season with salt.
• Transfer the pork broth, along with the bones and other solids, which will continue to flavor the broth, to an 11-inch hot pot pot with a divider. Add the chili oil to one side of the pot. Place the pot on a portable butane burner and bring to a boil over high heat.
• For the components: Meanwhile, arrange the beef, fish, cabbage, spinach, potatoes, pumpkin, eggs, fish tofu and udon noodles on plates or platters, as you like. Set out at least two pairs of chopsticks or tongs and small strainer baskets (these are useful when cooking more fragile ingredients, such as fish, tofu and the like). As for the chopsticks/tongs, let everyone know not to use the same pair for picking up raw and cooked meat and fish.
• For the condiments: Create a "dipping sauce station" with any of the condiments, along with a bunch of small plates and bowls. Each person can mix and match them as they like.
• Once the broth is boiling, start cooking! Let each person cook their own ingredients in the broth (the side with the chili oil is spicier), being mindful not to overcrowd the pot. If the broth reduces too much and you still have raw ingredients left, add some warm water to the pot and bring to a boil. If you like, you can eat the marrow from the pork bones.
• Proteins-Thinly sliced chicken, pork or lamb, mini-pork sausages, low-sodium luncheon meat cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices, shellfish, fish cakes, tofu
• Vegetables-sweet potato, kabocha squash, watercress, bok choy, corn on the cob, lotus root, kale, chile peppers, tomato, bean sprouts, enoki, shiitake or button mushrooms
• Noodles, etc.-ramen noodles, rice noodles, konjac noodle knots, dumplings, rice cakes, dried tofu sticks
• Stir together the Pork Broth, BBQ sauce, sesame paste, oyster sauce, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, sesame oil, sugar, garlic and scallions in a small bowl until combined.

Steps:

• Saute onion in butter until soft.
• Stir in rest of ingredients.
• Cook, uncovered, 15 minutes.
• Remove bay leaf and serve.

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Saute onion until soft and deep golden in color. Remove from skillet and set aside. Add lamb to skillet and fry (in batches if necessary) until rich chestnut brown in color, 12 to 15 minutes. Drain fat and reserve.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Spread 1/2 of the potatoes in the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Place browned lamb and onions on top, then sprinkle with thyme and season to taste. Cover with remaining potatoes, season to taste and dot with butter. Pour stock over all.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Note: If casserole is drying out while cooking, add more stock as needed. If casserole is browning too quickly, cover with aluminum foil.