How to make delicious and attractive eel hot pot for the whole family

Prepare
10 Minutes Processing
30 Minutes For
3-4 people

Hot pot is a familiar dish to each of us Vietnamese, especially this is an extremely suitable dish for every occasion to gather with family. Eel cooking in hot pot sounds a bit strange, but you will be extremely excited by the sweetness of delicious eel. Let’s go to the kitchen with Tnhelearning.edu.vn to make this fish hot pot for your family.

Ingredients for making eel hot pot

• 500g eel
• 1 tomato
• Half pineapple
• 1 onion
• 3 lemongrass plants
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic
• 1 tablespoon minced purple onion
• 1 pack of Thai hot pot seasoning
• 1.5 liters of chicken broth
• 50g vermicelli
• 1/3 teaspoon sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon cooking oil
• 1 little green onion
• 1 little coriander
• Kitchen tools: pots, knives

Some ingredients for making eel hot pot

Good tip
How to choose good eel
– When buying eels, you should choose the ones with clear eyes, not cloudy and clear pupils. The fish’s scales are shiny, adherent to the flesh, and the gills are bright red.
– Only fresh fish should be chosen to cook, not to buy dead eel because the fish meat will smell fishy and not chewy.

How to make eel hot pot

Step 1Process materials

Eel you clean the intestines, use a razor to scrape the top of the fish skin to remove the slime . Then wash the fish with salt water about 2-3 times , then rinse with clean water, drain and cut into 1cm thick slices.

Next, wash the tomatoes and cut them into cubes. Onion peeled, cut areca. Lemongrass smashed, cut into pieces. Scallions and cilantro, washed and chopped.

Pineapple you peel and remember to peel off the fragrant eyes. With half a pineapple, you divide it into 2 parts, one part you cut the pomegranate, the rest cut the pineapple into a fan shape .

Some of the ingredients are preliminarily processed

Step 2Sauteed fragrant and tomato

You put the pot on the stove, add about 1 tablespoon of cooking oil and boil the oil. When the oil starts to heat up, add 1 tablespoon of minced shallot, 1 tablespoon of minced garlic to the pot, saute it over medium heat.

After the onion and minced garlic start to smell and turn golden, you put all the aroma and diced tomatoes into the pot, stir over high heat . You add in the pot 1/3 teaspoon sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt. Stir-fry continuously until fragrant and tomatoes are cooked evenly and start to release water, then lower the heat to medium.

Saute tomatoes with pineapple

Step 3Cooking hot pot

You put in a pot of sautéed tomatoes and pineapples about 1.5 liters of broth, cut lemongrass and start stirring on medium heat.

When the water in the pot boils, you put all the Thai hot pot seasoning packet into the pot and add 1 tablespoon of sugar and stir well. Then you add the sliced pineapple and chopped onion and cook for about 5 minutes.

Finally, you add the main ingredient, eel, and cook. To make the dish more delicious, add chopped scallions and cilantro to stir well and then turn off the heat.

The stage of cooking hot pot

Finished product

Such delicious eel hotpot is complete. Fish hot pot with delicious broth, white, soft and delicious eel meat combined with the sweet taste of pineapple and the mild sour taste of tomatoes will be a great dish for the whole family. Hot pot will be wonderful with a cup of chili fish sauce along with vegetables served.

Deliciously cooked eel hotpot

Hopefully with the above 3 simple steps of Tnhelearning.edu.vn, eel hotpot will be a great dish for your family. Try it and feel the taste!

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