Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, homemade kimchi hot pot with fluffy tofu meatballs. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Homemade Kimchi Hot Pot with Fluffy Tofu Meatballs is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Homemade Kimchi Hot Pot with Fluffy Tofu Meatballs is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have homemade kimchi hot pot with fluffy tofu meatballs using 26 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Kimchi Hot Pot with Fluffy Tofu Meatballs:

1. Get Hot pot soup
2. Prepare 4 tbsp A- Miso
3. Get 1 tbsp A- Soy sauce
4. Get 1 tbsp A- Cooking sake
5. Make ready 1 tbsp A- Garlic (grated) *paste is fine too
6. Make ready 1 tbsp A- Chicken stock granules
7. Prepare 1 tsp A- Weipa (if available, also fine without it)
8. Take 1 tbsp A- Gochujang
9. Take 1200 ml Water
10. Get Tofu meatballs
11. Make ready 300 grams Tofu (Silken)
12. Make ready 150 grams B- Chicken thigh (ground)
13. Prepare 2 tbsp B- Japanese leek (minced)
14. Make ready 1 tbsp B- Katakuriko
15. Get 1 tbsp B- Ground sesame seeds
16. Prepare 1 tbsp B- Ginger (minced)
17. Prepare 1 B- Egg
18. Prepare Hot pot ingredients
19. Make ready 1 bunch Bok choy
20. Take 150 grams Chinese cabbage
21. Make ready 1 Enoki mushrooms
22. Get 2 slice Aburaage
23. Make ready 1 bunch Chinese chives
24. Take 1/2 bunch Mizuna greens
25. Get 1 Carrot
26. Make ready 200 grams Kimchi

Instructions to make Homemade Kimchi Hot Pot with Fluffy Tofu Meatballs:

1. This time, I used this "Chef Kawagoe's Recommended" kimchi. I recommend it since it's exactly at 200 g, and has a delicious "umami" taste from vegetables and seafood.
2. Combine and mix all the A- ingredients.
3. It's done once it's mixed like this.
4. Peel the skin off the carrot, and thinly slice it into strips using a peeler.
5. Slice like this. Thinly slice the remainder of the carrot and put them all together.
6. Using a clean cloth, squeeze out excess water from the tofu.
7. Squeeze out as much water as you can, and once it looks crumbly like this, it's done.
8. Combine and mix all the ingredients from step 7 and B-.
9. Mix well until it starts to get sticky.
10. In a hot pot containing 6 cups of water, add in the seasoning ingredients from step 3 and bring to a boil over medium heat. Spoon the tofu meatballs from step 9 into the pot.
11. Cover the pot and cook for 5 minutes over medium heat. It's done once the meatballs start to float to the surface like this. Set aside the meatballs in a bowl at this point.
12. For vegetables, let's prepare the ones you like. Make sure to drain excess oil from the aburaage (cut into your preferred size) by pouring boiling water over it.
13. Add those veggies that take time to cook first, such as the core of the bok choy, Chinese cabbage, etc.
14. Once they're wilted a little, add the carrot and aburaage.
15. To finish, add the enoki mushrooms, mizuna greens, Chinese chives, kimchi, and tofu meatballs. It's done after having simmered for about 5 minutes. It's a delicious soup with plenty of flavor.

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