Hotpot Dipping Sauces Recipe
Again, many sauces can be used as dipping sauces, whether traditional Sichuan, Hunan, or mixing in a Thai or Vietnamese dipping sauce.
The list here is purely those considered traditional in Sichuan cuisine. The list is from Fuschia Dunlop's "The Land of Plenty".
Ingredients
- sesame oil
- peanut oil (consider the flavor of the oil in this case) or vegetable oil (consider the flavor of the oil in this case)
- garlic
- salt
- 1 tablespoon roasted sichuan peppercorn (for Sichuan pepper salt)
- 1/2 tablespoon salt (for Sichuan pepper salt)
Instructions
- Each of the ingredients above is a dipping sauce, all by itself, other than the sichuan pepper and salt.
- Provide small bowls of each dip for each individual diner.
- ============= Sichuan Pepper Salt ============.
- Dry roast the Sichuan peppers until they are fragrant -- do NOT burn them.
- Using a coffee grinder or mortar and pestle, grind the peppers.
- You may either serve the pepper and salt in individual dipping bowls or you can mix the salt and pepper to create a single dipping ingredient.
Add Your Own Notes
Nutrition
Serving: 11gSodium: 3488.2mg
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