How to Make a Hot Pot Dipping Sauce by: Kaitlin 0 Comments Jump to Recipe Posted:3/06/2023Updated:3/06/2023 Important question: Is there a right way to make a hot pot dipping sauce?  More and more of you are loving hot pot, and we’ve gotten a lot of queries about how to prepare it at home.We have posts on how to set up a hot pot dinner, and how to make an easy tomato hot pot base or a spicy Sichuan hot pot.But what about the hot pot sauce that you mix up (usually at a big sauce bar at restaurants) to dip all the tasty morsels into?  It’s a very personal thing, and assembling the right ingredients can be daunting.

So today, we’re doing a full guide on hot pot sauce.We’ll talk about what ingredients you should put out at your own home sauce bar and provide each of our personal concoctions for hot pot sauces, so you can choose one that sounds tastiest to you and tweak from there to create your own.We hope this post inspires future at-home hot pot adventures! Is HotPot Finally Sweeping the Nation? If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, Chinese hot pot is a meal in which various ingredients (vegetables, mushrooms, meats, seafood, tofu, noodles, rice cakes, etc.) are cooked in a pot of bubbling soup in the center of the table.

The soup pot can be communal or individual, and diners take the cooked ingredients out of the pot, and enjoy them with a dipping sauce.  We’re not quite sure when it happened, but it seems that this

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