How to cook delicious, spicy and sour sturgeon hotpot at home

To make delicious sturgeon hotpot with Northern flavor, you need to prepare the following ingredients:

Sturgeon: 1 fish about 1.5-2kg
Tomatoes: 4
Green onion: 5 stalks
Garlic: 1 bulb
Onion: 2 bulbs
Dried onion: 2 bulbs
Ginger: 1 root
Fresh chili: 3 fruits
Pickled bamboo shoots: 500g
Pineapple: Half a fruit
Coriander, dill, water spinach, celery, banana blossom...
Fresh noodles: 1kg
Flour: 200g
Spices: Sugar, MSG, seasoning powder, fish sauce, cooking oil

Step 1: Prepare ingredients

Put the sturgeon in a bowl, sprinkle the flour on the fish and rub it from head to tail to remove the slime. Then, wash the fish, remove the gills, fins and intestines. Cut the fish into small pieces about 3-4cm and set aside. Use the head and tail of the fish to make hot pot broth.

Wash and thinly slice tomatoes. Peel and wash onions and cut into wedges.

Peel the shallots and garlic, wash, crush and chop finely. Wash and chop the chili. Peel the ginger, crush and chop finely. Peel and chop the lemongrass.

Coriander, dill, pick old, wilted leaves, wash and chop finely.

Pick out old and wilted leaves from water spinach and celery, wash and drain. Wash banana blossom. Slice pineapple.

Blanch fresh noodles in boiling water and drain.

Tear the pickled bamboo shoots into small pieces, soak them in water, boil for about 5 minutes, then remove, wash and drain.

Step 2 : Fry the fish

Place the pan on the stove, add enough cooking oil to the pan, heat it up, then add chopped onion and garlic to the pan and fry until fragrant. Next, add the sturgeon tail and head to fry.

After the fish is fried until golden brown, drain off the excess oil in the pan, then add a little fish sauce, salt, pepper, and MSG to taste. Cook for another 2-3 minutes to let the fish absorb the spices, then turn off the heat.

Step 3 : Make hot pot broth

Place the pan on the stove, add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil and tomatoes, shallots and stir-fry until cooked. Then add pineapple and stir-fry together to create aroma.

Next, put 2 liters of filtered water in a pot and boil, add ginger, onion, shallots to the pot and cook over low heat. Boil until the water boils and smells fragrant, then add the fish tail and head.

Boil the hot pot for 20 minutes, then add the pickled bamboo shoots and cook together. Next, add half a spoon of MSG, 1 spoon of seasoning powder, 2 spoons of sugar, 1 spoon of fish sauce and stir well to dissolve the spices.

Continue to cook for 5-10 minutes then turn off the stove.

Step 4 : Finish

Transfer the hot pot broth to a smaller pot and arrange the fish, noodles, and vegetables around the pot. When eating, just drop the fish and other ingredients into the pot, wait until cooked, and enjoy.

To make delicious, standard sturgeon hotpot, you need to choose the right ingredients.

For sturgeon, choose live fish with shiny, elastic bodies. To ensure quality, choose fish with bright colors, pink gills and clear eyes.

With pineapple, choose fruits that are bright yellow, short, round in shape and have large, sparse eyes so that the pineapple has natural sweetness, without being soaked in chemicals.

For tomatoes, choose ones that are naturally red, have green stems, and are firm. Don't choose ones that are too red or have loose stems because they may have been forced to ripen.

Other hot pot ingredients such as hot pot vegetables should be fresh, delicious, not soggy or crushed.

When preparing sturgeon, use diluted salt water or white wine to reduce the fishy smell and help the hot pot retain its delicious flavor.

When cooking hot pot broth, simmer so that the ingredients release their sweetness and the fish cooks evenly without falling apart.

Depending on your preference, you can add other side dishes to the hot pot such as corn, potatoes, mushrooms, sausages, etc. to make the dish more delicious and sweet.

During the cooking process, you should regularly skim off the foam on the surface of the hot pot water to make the broth clearer and more beautiful.

Tasting the hot pot broth is very important, pay attention to adding the right amount of spices to suit your family's taste. When eating, you can serve it with a bowl of salt and chili sauce.

Sturgeon hotpot has a sour, sweet, spicy taste mixed with the sweetness of fish meat, the chewy, fatty taste mixed with the broth to create a very eye-catching and very attractive pot of sturgeon hotpot.

Sturgeon hotpot with simple preparation and easy-to-find ingredients is an ideal dish for families.

Hopefully through the above sharing, you have known how to cook this attractive hot pot dish to enjoy during occasions of meeting friends or family parties at home.

Good luck!

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