Medicinal Herb Hot Pot
Eat Beauty! A Black Healthy Hot Pot Mixed with Dozens of Chinese Herbs
Description
A health-conscious hot pot with a black, sweet-bitter broth extracted by boiling dozens of Chinese medicinal herbs like angelica, goji berries, and jujubes with pork or chicken bones.
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Recipe
Ingredients
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- Prepare a 'Lu Bao' (medicinal spice bag) blending dong quai, lovage, licorice, goji berries, jujubes, black dates, star anise, and cassia.
- Put this bag in a white broth of chicken and pork bones, add soy sauce and rice wine, and simmer on low for 2-
- hours until the soup turns black (amber).
- Transfer the broth, full of intense medicinal aroma and natural sweetness, to a tabletop pot and boil.
- Add mushrooms, yuba (tofu skin), cabbage, and sliced pork to simmer.
- Do not use dipping sauce; savor the umami of the medicinal broth directly with the ingredients.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Dong quai and Cassia
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Store-bought medicinal hot pot base, Pork shabu-shabu meat
Pairing
Warm Oriental Beauty Tea
Trivia
[Trend] Embodying 'food as medicine'. Smells intensely of herbs but tastes surprisingly sweet and mild. Garnering massive support from Taiwanese women seeking beauty and cold relief.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] First scoop the black medicinal broth into a bowl, feel it warm you from the core, and then start eating the ingredients!
Allergen
Wheat, Soy, Pork