Korean Hot Pot Recipes

KOREAN BEEF HOT POT, BULGOGI JEONGOL

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients for the sauce in a medium size mixing bowl and stir well until sugar has completely dissolved.
• Bring thinly sliced beef and pour half of the sauce. Mix well and set aside to marinate the beef. You could marinate for over night but it's not necessary. Let it marinate while you're preparing the veggies and other ingredients will be enough time!
• Drain konnyaku noodles and rinse under hot water for 1 to 2 minutes then drain.
• Spread sliced onion on bottom of the shallow large pot. Arrange the rest of the vegetables, tofu and konnyaku noodles in the pot and leave the center.
• Place the bulgogi in the center and pour the rest of the sauce around, but not on top of the bulgogi. Pour water from the side of the pot and sprinkle some sesame seeds right on top to garnish. Cover with a lid. We usually serve this jeongol (hot pot) to the dinner table, and eat while it's cooking. So if you have a portable gas stove, please do so! It's so much more fun!
• Bring it to boil over high heat and when it starts boil, start move around the bulgogi in the middles so the beef will cook evenly. Keep boiling for 5 minutes or until bulgogi is fully cooked and vegetables are soften. It's ready to eat! Enjoy!

RED CURRY HOT POT BROTH

Steps:

• For the broth, heat oil in 6-quart stockpot over medium-high heat. Add onion; cook and stir until tender, about 3 minutes. Stir in stock, curry paste, soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic powder and ginger. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 20 minutes. Stir lime juice into broth just before serving.
• Place proteins, vegetables, noodles, and garnishes in bowls or on plates for guests to customize their meal.
• To serve, pour broth into one or both sides of the hot pot, depending upon whether you're offering one broth or two different broths. Cook the vegetables and proteins in the broth and ladle over noodles or rice.
• NOTE: Instant Pot or Pressure Cooker Method
• Multifunction Electric Pressure Cooker Method (Saves 1 hr. cooking time): Heat oil on medium sauté setting in pot of multi-function electric pressure cooker (instant pot). Add onion; cook and stir until tender, about 3 minutes. Stir in stock, curry paste, soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic powder and ginger. Cover and lock lid into place. Set to cook 10 minutes on high pressure (or Soup setting). Vent pot and release pressure before opening and carefully remove lid. (Check manufacturer's manual for safe operating instructions.) Set on low sauté setting. Stir in lime juice. Allow guests to cook steak in broth, about 2 to 3 minutes or until desired doneness. Customize individual bowls and serve as directed.

BULGOGI JEONGOL (HOT POT)

Steps:

• Mix all the marinade ingredients in a large bowl. If using packaged pre-sliced meat, run a knife through it to cut into smaller pieces. Add the meat to the marinade. Toss gently, with hands, to mix everything well. Marinate while preparing the other ingredients.
• Put 5 cups of water and the broth vegetables in a medium size pot. Bring it to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to medium and continue to boil for about 15 minutes. Discard the vegetables. Season with the soup soy sauce, salt and pepper to taste.
• Cut the cabbage and carrot into thin, bite size pieces. Thinly slice the onion and mushrooms. Cut the scallions and minari in similar lengths.
• Using a wide, shallow pot, neatly arrange the bulgogi and vegetables in clusters. Add the optional noodles. Pour in 2 to 3 cups of broth and cook over high heat, separating the bulgogi pieces. Depending on the pot size, you can cook in two batches or add more broth and any remaining ingredients while eating if you're cooking at the table.

HOT POT AT HOME

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.

KOREAN HOT POT (SIN-SU-LO)

Steps:

• Place the following in bowl or freeze bag: ginger root,1 clove garlic, 1 tbsp oil, 2 tbsp soy, and 1 tbsp sesame seeds. Add chicken and marinate two to four hrs in cool spot.
• Combine beef, egg, 1 clove garlic, 2 tbsp each of soy, oil, and sesame seed.
• Form into walnut sized balls with a piece of walnut meat in the middle. Roll balls in cornstarch and then in the egg.
• Brown lightly in 1 tbsp oil, remove from pan and set aside.
• Heat pan to medium high, add 1/2 tbsp oil and saute snow peas 2-3 minutes; add mushrooms and continue with saute until mushrooms release their liquid. Remove from pan and set aside.
• Add chicken and saute. Discard marinate.
• Blanch spinach in boiling water until just limp. Drain.
• Arrange meat and vegetables in Dutch oven or chafing dish.
• Add broth carefully and simmer to keep warm. Top with egg and green onion.
• Place rice in individual bowls. Serve mixture over over rice. End this meal with eating broth with or without rice.

KOREAN HOT POT

Steps:

• To make the soup, place the broth, mushrooms and ginger in a large pot and simmer for 30 minutes. Strain. Stir in soy.
• At least 1 day ahead, toss the cabbage with the salt in a large bowl and let stand at room temperature for 3 hours. Rinse and firmly press out the liquid. Combine the ginger, garlic, 4 minced scallions, red chilies, fish sauce, water and soy and toss with the cabbage until well coated. Place in a tightly sealed container and refrigerate up to 5 days.
• For the cucumber salad, combine 1 scallion, jalapenos, vinegar, sesame oil, 1/4 teaspoon of salt and sesame seeds in a bowl, add the cucumbers and toss well. Set aside.
• Toss the rice with the chives. Place the kimchi, the cucumber salad, the rice, the scallions and the radish in separate bowls. Arrange the carpaccio on a plate. Ladle the soup into bowls. Serve, passing the condiments separately.