How to make your own hot pot base

After working five days a week, you should be exhausted. When you have a weekend off, you will definitely curl up on the sofa or bed, and your lunch and dinner will be either instant noodles or takeout. As someone like you, are you really not worried about dying young? So, learn to cook something for yourself while you are still healthy. Now, I will teach you how to make your own basic hot pot base.

1. Prepare materials and weigh them.

2. 10 grams of lemongrass.

3. 50 grams of galangal.

4. 10 grams of lithospermum officinale and 10 grams of bay leaves.

5. 20 grams of cinnamon, 50 grams of fennel, and 30 grams of cardamom.

6. 50 grams of star anise.

7. 1500 grams of butter.

8. Put the dried chili peppers into boiling water and cook for about 2 minutes. Take them out and use a grinder to grind them into chili powder. Cut the green onions into sections, slice or crush the ginger and garlic, crush the cardamom, and chop the bean paste.

9. Pour the oil into the pot, add the butter and let it melt slowly.

10. Add onion, ginger and garlic and sauté until fragrant.

11. Pour in the bean paste one by one.

12. Chili powder. Fry over high heat for 1 minute until red oil comes out, then fry over low heat for 1 and a half hours. Until the scallion segments float on the surface of the oil, filled with the flavor of burnt scallions.

13. After one and a half hours, remove the onions floating on the surface of the oil (if you continue to fry them, they will have a burnt and bitter smell). Then add lemongrass, galangal, cardamom, bay leaves, cinnamon, fennel, star anise, licorice, rock sugar, and comfrey in turn.

14. Continue stir-frying on low heat for 30 minutes. Turn off the heat. After cooling, put it into a sealed box and refrigerate it. You can use it when making the base of the spicy red soup.

The method of making homemade hot pot base has been introduced, but everyone's understanding and mastery of it is different. Below you can make it according to your own understanding.