Hi there<\/p>\n

By now you probably have tried\u00a0different steam boat broth and ingredients, but if you are still craving for more or wanted something different, then you might like to check out my recipes below.<\/p>\n

I have set up this steamboat dinner on the first day of chinese new year,\u00a0as I knew I will be able to eat the traditional steamboat fare at my relative’s place so I wanted to make mine a little different, a little more cosy actually.<\/p>\n

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So for our home steamboat, what I did is a mixture of Japanese cum Chinese style. I have made meat vegetable rolls, using Japanese seafood like oysters and also using Japanese dipping sauce .<\/p>\n

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First off, for vegetable meat rolls, all you need is shabu shabu frozen pork which you can find in supermarket frozen section, comes in nicely, all thinly sliced, just only thawed it and good to go.<\/p>\n

You can also use pork belly if you want\u00a0your meat to be even more juicy and tender \ud83d\ude42\u00a0Next is the vegetables, I opted for enoki mushroom, carrots and spring onions as it looks colorful and the vegetables provide crunch and sweetness to the rolls. Just finely sliced the carrots, chop the same length of the spring onions like the enoki mushrooms for easy wrapping.<\/p>\n

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It is also very simple to prepare, just lay out the shabu shabu pork or beef, then pick a bunch of each kind of vegetables, and rolled it in, and voila! simple and easy.<\/p>\n

You can also play around with this theme, like rolling some oysters into the meat too. The important thing is just to choose the cut of meat, it has to be shabu shabu, or belly slices, because it is thin enough to cook quickly. You wouldn’t want to just waste your time throughout the steamboat dinner just to wait for that few piece of meat to cook, or worse, kept monitoring it.<\/p>\n

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We tried to cook it in the steamboat pot, and it took less than 30 secs to cook, as the carrot were sliced thinly, it was not throughly cooked and you can still taste the sweetness of the carrot. Enoki mushroom and spring onions can be done really quickly too.<\/p>\n

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Next, for seafood, some people may dislike the fishy taste of fish and seafood. If you are left with some fish and prawns or even mussels. You can use this marinates for it. I tried many times, and it works like a charm to take out any fishy smell and also enhanced the flavor while cooking steamboat. And this wonderful marinates was no other than “Chinese Cooking Wine”, yup, just one. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I usually sliced and washed all the seafood, and then drizzle a little bit of chinese cooking wine to take away all the fishy smell by chilling it in the fridge for aboiut half hour. Not only was there\u00a0not a\u00a0hint of fishiness, and it actually exudes very nice fragrant too, don’t worry about the alcohol contents, once you cook it, all will all\u00a0be vaporized. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

If you want to jazz it up a little further, try adding a little of sesame oil and also crushed garlic, the boring seafood just got a whole new meaning to it!<\/p>\n

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Next, this is for the ladies who are afraid of too much carbo like noodles and rice during steamboat. Try adding konyaku, which is noodles made of beans or potatoes. These noodles are very low in calories, and cooks very quickly, literally, dip into hot soup for 5 secs and it is ready. The texture is springy and chewy, and this is full of fibers, that is very good for the body too.<\/p>\n

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This round, I got some frozen oysters from Isetan as well, I was really hesitant to get it because it was frozen, and I do not quite like the idea of frozen oysters, however, after perusaded by the sales promoters, I got one pack, which comes in about 10 odd pieces of frozen oysters.<\/p>\n

Each piece is huge! some are even half of palm size. This pack cost me $19 each, but I have no regret at all because it is super tasty! you can barely taste any fishiness, but rather it is very creamy and fresh, I think the promoter was right, she was telling me all these were snap freezed so is very fresh. Sometimes frozen food is not that bad after all. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Alright next come one of the most important elements of steamboat to me. Well, to me at least, I feel dipping sauces are the most important. I actually like my steamboat broth to be either with a little chicken stock, or better, just plain boiling water, because the soup flavour will not mask the taste of the food.<\/p>\n

However, having to say that, I like to dip my cooked food into sauces. I am a sauce and dressing franatic, when it comes to steamboat, I must have my favourite dipping sauce to enjoy it, so I always make sure we have these sauces at home, and especially during steamboat.<\/p>\n

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This time round, I made a few dipping sauce :<\/p>\n

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• Lime Juice (2) + chilli (2)\u00a0+ crushed garlic (1)<\/li>\n
• Shabu shabu sesame sauce (1 tbspn) + chopped corriander (1 bunch)\u00a0+ chilli oil (1 tspn)<\/li>\n
• Citrus soya sauce\u00a0 (1tbspn) + chopped corriander (1 bunch)\u00a0+grated raddish (1 tbspn) & chilli (1)<\/li>\n
• Yuzu paste<\/li>\n
• Soya sauce (1tbspn)\u00a0+ sesame oil (1\/2 tspn)+ chilli oil (1\/2 tspn) \u00a0+ chopped corriander (1 bunch)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  tbspn => tablespoon \/ tspn => teaspoon<\/p>\n

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  See I told you, I am a franatic.<\/p>\n

  Preparation is very simple, I have indicated a number above, that’s how much you need to mix in.<\/p>\n

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  Sometimes, when I ran out of shabu shabu sauce, I will also use japanese creamy dressing as dipping sauce too, because some of the food although sound a little strange, really suit some of the dressing, like roasted nut sesame dressing goes really well with boiled pork slices and you can find many japanese resaurant having boiled pork slices salad with sesame dressing too.<\/p>\n

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  So hope you all have a great time during steamboat and also try to jazz it up a little to make it your little twist to impress your relatives when they come over to your place for steamboat session. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

  Happy Steamboat Feasting!<\/p>\n

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  Cheers,<\/p>\n

  Dawn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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