Hotpot Dipping Sauces

Submitted by Gandalf The White

"Again, many sauces can be used as dipping sauces, whether traditional Sichuan, Hunan, or mixing in a Thai or Vietnamese dipping sauce. The list here is purely those considered traditional in Sichuan cuisine. The list is from Fuschia Dunlop's "The Land of Plenty"."

 

• Ready In: 5mins
• Ingredients: 6
• Serves: 1-2

ingredients

• sesame oil
• peanut oil (consider the flavor of the oil in this case) or vegetable oil (consider the flavor of the oil in this case)
• garlic
• salt
• 1 tablespoon roasted sichuan peppercorn (for Sichuan pepper salt)
• 1⁄2 tablespoon salt (for Sichuan pepper salt)

directions

1. Each of the ingredients above is a dipping sauce, all by itself, other than the sichuan pepper and salt.
2. Provide small bowls of each dip for each individual diner.
3. ============= Sichuan Pepper Salt ============.
4. Dry roast the Sichuan peppers until they are fragrant -- do NOT burn them.
5. Using a coffee grinder or mortar and pestle, grind the peppers.
6. You may either serve the pepper and salt in individual dipping bowls or you can mix the salt and pepper to create a single dipping ingredient.

Reviews

[Mia in Germany]

To be honest, it never occured to me that hotpot dipping sauces were so simple - but they are, and you don't need anything else. Along with dipped game it tasted absolutely fantastic. Thanks for taking the trouble to post the hotpot recipes along with all the great explanations!