Hot pot base
Sichuan and Chongqing are indispensable to the food of hot pot, perhaps only people in Sichuan and Chongqing can easily distinguish the difference between Chengdu hot pot and Chongqing hot pot. The two places are different in terms of raw materials and production methods, Chengdu hot pot focuses on rapeseed oil, while Chongqing hot pot focuses on butter. However, there is no strict distinction between the hot pot bases sold on the market, and each brand provides hot pot bases made with different oils, and the spiciness is also differentiated, so customers can buy according to their preferences.
The butter hot pot base is heavier and can lock in the flavor of the ingredients, especially the animal ingredients, which can be well integrated into the butter, but it also has a greasy feeling after eating for a long time. The hot pot base of rapeseed oil is relatively light in oil, although it does not have a strong taste of butter, but it is very suitable for cooking vegetable ingredients, especially potatoes, taro, vermicelli and other powdery and gelatinous ingredients, which are not easy to stick to the pan after long-term cooking. In addition to the traditional flavors, hemp-loving diners can also choose rattan pepper hot pot bases, which highlight the taste of fresh hemp, moderate spiciness, but extremely numb, and are mostly used to make rattan pepper fish hot pot.
There are many brands of hot pot base and many flavors, it is recommended to choose a physical hot pot restaurant brand, the raw materials and taste of hot pot base are basically the same as the taste of hot pot in physical stores, and it is not easy to step on thunder when buying. It is recommended to buy brands such as Xiaolongkan, Huangcheng Laoma, Shu Jiuxiang and other brands in Chengdu area, with a rich variety of hot pot bases, providing rapeseed oil bottom, butter bottom, rattan pepper bottom and avocale rapeseed oil mixed bottom and other bases, a hot pot base is suitable for 3-5 people to eat, and the price is about 30 yuan. However, it is not recommended to buy at various specialty shops, and the price of specialty shops is about 6 yuan higher than the price of ordinary supermarkets or hot pot restaurants.
Place of purchase: major supermarkets, Huangcheng Lao Ma hot pot restaurant, Xiaolongkan hot pot restaurant, Shu Jiuxiang hot pot restaurant