Tastes Like Chicken! Recipes
(From Chicken Recipes Compiled Since 1992)

Chinese Fire Pot

Category: Asian

Servings: Makes 6 to 8 servings

Description: Communal hot pot dish with meats, seafood, vegetables, and dipping sauces.

Ingredients:

• 1 lb boneless beef sirloin or round
• 1 lb boned chicken breasts
• 1 lb fish fillets
• 1/2 to 1 lb medium shrimp
• 1 lb Chinese cabbage
• 1/2 lb fresh forest mushrooms or cultivated mushrooms
• Lemon juice
• 2 (3 1/2-oz) packages enoki mushrooms
• 3/4 lb Chinese pea pods
• 2 bunches green onions
• 2 bunches spinach
• 1 (8-oz) can water chestnuts, drained and sliced
• 1 (8-oz) can bamboo shoots, drained and sliced
• 4 (13 3/4-oz) cans chicken broth
• Sweet-and-sour sauce
• Soy sauce
• Prepared hot Chinese mustard
• 1/4 lb fine egg noodles, cooked
• Chopped cilantro or chives (optional)

Instructions:

1. Partially freeze meats and fish for easier slicing. Slice thinly.
2. Prepare vegetables, mushrooms, and noodles as described.
3. Arrange all ingredients on platters in rows.
4. Boil chicken broth, pour into Chinese hot pot.
5. Each person poaches chosen ingredients and dips into sauces.