CHINESE FIRE POT

600 gm Boneless Beef sirloin or Beef round
2 bunches Spinach300 gm Canned water chestnuts, drained and sliced
600 gm Boned chicken breasts
600 gm Fish fillets
300 gm Canned bamboo shoots, drained and sliced
600 gm Medium shrimp
600 gm Chinese cabbage
4 cans Chicken broth (500 gm cans)
300 gm Fresh forest mushrooms or Cultivated mushrooms
Sweet-and-sour Sauce
Lemon juice
Soy Sauce
2 pak Enoki mushrooms
Prepared Hot Chinese mustard
300 gm Fine Egg noodles; cooked
500 gm Chinese pea pods
Cilantro or chives; chopped (optional)
2 bunches Green onions

You don’t need to use all ingredients listed here as long as you offer an
interesting blend of meats, Fish and Vegetables. Other meats and
Vegetables can be substituted, if desired. Place Beef, chicken and Fish
in freezer and chill until firm to touch but not frozen. Slice Beef and
chicken in strips 2 cm thick and about 4 cm long. Cut Fish into 2 cm cubes.
Shell and de-vein shrimp. Chop cabbage into bite-size chunks.
Clean mushrooms. If using forest mushrooms, remove and discard
stems. Slice mushrooms and sprinkle with lemon juice. Cut off and
discard root portion of enoki mushrooms and separate clusters as
much as possible. Wash, trim ends and string pea pods. Clean green
onions and cut in halves lengthwise, including green portion. Cut into
4 cm lengths. Clean spinach and discard thick stems.
To serve, arrange Beef, chicken, Fish, shrimp, cabbage, forest
mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, snow peas, green onions, spinach
leaves, water chestnuts and bamboo shoots in individual rows on large
platters or serving plates. Bring broth to boil.
Place heating unit under Chinese Hot pot and pour boiling broth into
Hot-pot bowl. Using Chinese wire ladle and chopsticks or fondue forks,
each person places whatever ingredients are desired into Hot broth to
poach. When cooked (this will take only a few minutes), ingredients
are then dipped into Sweet-and-sour Sauce, soy Sauce or Hot mustard
as desired, and eat with noodles, adding cilantro, if desired.

Serve hot and Enjoy!