Easy hot pot style soup
When it rains, make soup. A hot pot meal is lovely but the prep and setup can be too much work. No worries. Cook hot pot style soup on the stove. Easy, tasty, comforting.
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
- 1 two-inch knob ginger peeled and sliced
- 2 8-gram packets hondashi
- 500 grams mixed seafood balls (1.1 pounds) thawed
- 300 grams spinach (10 oz / 0.66 pounds)
- salt to taste
- aonori to garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Pour six cups of water into a pot.
- Add the ginger slices and heat.
- When the water begins to simmer, stir in the hondashi.
- When the broth reaches boiling point, drop in the mixed seafood balls.
- Bring to the boil and allow to simmer for a few minutes.
- Drop in the spinach, pressing down the leaves into the liquid.
- Stir and simmer just until the spinach wilts.
- Taste the broth and add salt, if needed.
- Serve the hot pot style soup immediately. Optionally, sprinkle with aonori.
