Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, hokkaido specialty: salmon & vegetable hotpot. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Hokkaido Specialty: Salmon & Vegetable Hotpot is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Hokkaido Specialty: Salmon & Vegetable Hotpot is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hokkaido specialty: salmon & vegetable hotpot using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Hokkaido Specialty: Salmon & Vegetable Hotpot:

1. Make ready 400 grams Fresh salmon
2. Take 1 Chinese cabbage, potatoes, kudzu noodles, Japanese leek, carrot, shiitake, enoki, shimeji mushrooms, mizuna, etc.
3. Make ready 20 grams Butter
4. Prepare Sauce:
5. Get 1200 ml Kombu based dashi stock
6. Prepare 80 grams Miso
7. Get 2 tbsp Mirin
8. Prepare 1 tsp Sugar
9. Prepare 2 tbsp Sake
10. Take Ramen to finish
11. Get 3 servings Chinese noodles
12. Get 5 slice Char siu
13. Take 1/4 tsp Doubanjiang

Instructions to make Hokkaido Specialty: Salmon & Vegetable Hotpot:

1. Wash the potatoes and wrap them with plastic wrap while still wet. Microwave for 5 minutes. While hot, use a knife to remove the skins. Boil the carrots.
2. Remove the stems from the shiitake mushrooms. To let them easily soak up the flavors of the hot pot, cut a notch on the caps.
3. Put the water and the konbu in a hotpot. If possible, leave it for 2 hours. Turn the heat on very low and warm until just before boiling. Let it simmer for about 5 minutes.
4. Combine the miso, mirin, sugar, and sake.
5. Put the vegetables and salmon into the hotpot. Pour in 2/3 of the combined miso ingredients from Step 4. Add 20 g of butter and heat.
6. Once the vegetables have been cooked about 80%, add the remaining 1/3 of the combined miso ingredients from Step 4. Here is when you should add any fillings that cook quickly (such as mizuna, chrysanthemum greens, oysters, etc.)
7. After eating the hotpot, add the ramen, char siu, and doubanjang to the pot to make miso ramen!
8. Use the konbu from making the soup stock to make "tsukudani" (preserved food boiled in soy sauce)!. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/143989-kombu-tsukudani-using-leftover-dashi-kombu

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Now you can see that junk food isn’t necessarily what you should eat when you wish to help your moods get better. Try a few of these instead!