Pixian watercress is brewed with broad beans, peppers and salt. It is a local specialty of Pixian County in Chengdu. Its color is bright, moist and spicy. Pixian watercress is the most important seasoning in red soup hot pot. When used in soup brine, it can increase umami flavor and fragrance, and make the soup warm, spicy, thick and bright.
Douchi?
Douchi is brewed with soybeans, salt and spices, with mellow smell, yellow and black color, oily and soft seeds, and fresh and sweet taste. Chongqing Yongchuan Douchi tastes good. When used in soup brine, douchi can increase the salty and mellow taste.
Dried Chili?
Dry Chili peppers are pungent and warm, which can dispel cold and strengthen stomach. Their colors are bright red and spicy. There are many kinds of dried peppers, including big gold bars, two gold bars, five-leaf peppers, morning peppers, seven-star peppers, dahongpao peppers and millet peppers. Adding dried chillies to the hot pot soup (pot bottom) can remove fishy smell, relieve boredom, inhibit peculiar smell, and increase spicy taste and color.
Sichuan pepper
Zanthoxylum bungeanum, pungent, warm and hemp, can warm the middle and dispel cold, and has the function of dehumidification and pain relief. Shaanxi Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a variety of Zanthoxylum bungeanum; Mao Wen pepper and Qingxi pepper in Sichuan are superior. Zanthoxylum bungeanum is an important seasoning for hot pot. When used in soup brine, it can inhibit the fishy smell and enhance the umami taste.
Ginger?
Ginger is pungent and wet. It contains the volatile oil gingerol. It has a special spicy taste. When ginger is used in red soup and clear soup brine, it can effectively remove fishy smell and inhibit odor. It can enhance fragrance and taste.
Garlic?
Garlic is spicy and fragrant. Contains volatile oil and second-rate compounds. Garlic is mainly used for flavoring, enhancing fragrance, inhibiting fishy smell and removing peculiar smell.
Hey?
Fermented wine, the rice grains are soft but not rotten, and the wine juice is mellow. Sweet and delicious, thick but not miscellaneous, thick but not sticky. Adding distiller's grains to the prepared hot pot soup brine (base material) can increase freshness, inhibit fishy smell and make the soup brine sweet again.
salt
The scientific name of salt is sodium chloride, which is a small crystalline particle with salty taste. It can detoxify, cool blood, moisten dryness and stop oxygen. Salt plays a role in determining taste, seasoning, refreshing, relieving boredom and removing fishy smell in hot pot.
Rock sugar?
Rock sugar is a replica of sucrose, which is sweet in taste and flat in nature. It is used for crystallization, benefiting qi, moistening dryness and clearing heat. When cooking hot pot soup, adding rock sugar grams can make the soup mellow and sweet, which can alleviate the spicy stimulation.
Cooking wine?
Cooking wine takes glutinous rice as the main raw material, which has a soft taste and a special aroma. The main functions of cooking wine in hot pot soup are to enhance fragrance, color, fishy smell and odor.
MSG?
MSG is extracted from protein-containing substances such as soybean, wheat and kelp, and it tastes delicious. It can help to refresh and improve the flavor of hot pot.
Chicken essence?
Chicken essence is a powerful fresh-keeping product that has been widely used in recent years. It is refined from eggs and sodium bran. The umami flavor of chicken essence comes from amino acids decomposed by protein of animals and plants. The role of chicken essence is to enhance the umami flavor and taste.
Pepper?
Pepper belongs to temperate zone, with pungent smell and strong fragrance, which has the effects of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, invigorating stomach and regulating qi. Used in broth hot pot to remove fishy smell, enhance fragrance and taste.