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Ingredients:
1 pound Boneless beef sirloin -- =OR=- beef round
1 pound Boned chicken breasts
1 pound Fish fillets
1 pound Medium shrimp
1 pound Chinese cabbage
1/2 pound Fresh forest mushrooms or Cultivated mushrooms
Lemon juice
2 packages Enoki mushrooms -- (3 1/2-oz packages)
3/4 pound Chinese pea pods
2 bn Green onions
2 bn Spinach
8 ounces Canned water chestnuts -- drained and sliced
8 ounces Canned bamboo shoots -- drained and sliced
4 cans Chicken broth -- (13 3/4-oz cans)
Sweet-and-sour sauce
Soy sauce
Prepared hot Chinese mustard
1/4 pound Fine egg noodles -- cooked
Cilantro or chives -- chopped
(optional)
Instructions:
It is not necessary to use all ingredients listed here as long as
you offer an interesting blend of meats, fish and vegetables.
Other meats and vegetables can be substituted, if desired.
Place beef, chicken and fish in freezer and chill until firm to
touch but not frozen. Slice beef and chicken in strips 1/4-inch
thick and about 2 inches long. Cut fish into 3/4-inch cubes. Shell
and devein shrimp. Chop cabbage into bite-size chunks. Clean
mushrooms. If using forest mushrooms, remove and discard stems.
Slice mushrooms and sprinkle with lemon juice.
Cut off and discard root portion of enoki mushrooms and separate
clusters
as much as possible. Wash, trim ends and string pea pods. Clean
green
onions and cut in halves lengthwise, including green portion. Cut
into
2-inch lengths. Clean spinach and discard thick stems. To serve,
arrange
beef, chicken, fish, shrimp, cabbage, forest mushrooms, enoki
mushrooms, snow peas, green onions, spinach leaves, water
chestnuts and bamboo shoots
in individual rows on large platters or serving plates. Bring
broth to boil. Place heating unit under Chinese hot pot and pour
boiling broth into hot-pot bowl. Using Chinese wire ladle and
chopsticks or fondue forks, each person places whatever
ingredients are desired into hot broth to poach.
When cooked (this will take only a few moments), ingredients are
then
dipped into sweet-and-sour sauce, soy sauce or hot mustard as
desired, and
eaten with noodles, adding cilantro, if desired..
Note: The special pot needed
can be purchased at Chinese shops.
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