Soup Base for Mala Hot Pot (Sichuan Hot Pot, Mala Huo Guo, Mala Tang, Chuan Chuan Xiang)

Soup Base for Mala Hot Pot (Sichuan Hot Pot, Mala Huo Guo, Mala Tang, Chuan Chuan Xiang)You can absolutely make the soup for Sichuan hot pot from scratch, but most times you will probably do as they do in Sichuan when making hot pot at home and use a readymade soup base. The broth is made from Sichuan pepper and chilies and too many other spices and aromatics to count and is long cooked to create a numbing, spicy and all around powerful soup. And all you have to do is add water! (Though you can doctor it up if you wish, using broth

Dry aromatics he recommends:

coming to The Mala Market sometime in the future

The peppercorns are hand-picked and dried by the farmers before being machine-sorted once and hand-sorted twice

but also for beef and lamb

REFRIGERATE AFTER OPENING

Simply use hot water and a dual-sided sponge

but came to feel it was a bit too heavy for a hot kitchen and wrinkled too easily

chaoshou and liangban (cold) dishes

which can be quite loud when scraping a wok—especially against cast iron

but these zi dan tou

so are smaller

Source: Grown in Qionghai