Healthy Steamboat buffet

Last Saturday, we had a huge feast of home made steamboat buffet. We had also invited a few of our friends to join us. Normally, steamboat meal will take a lot of time, hence it is great to spend time with family or friends while having this meal. Moreover, we do not need to have any cooking skill for steamboat. Just 3 simple steps as Dump..... Wait......and EAT.....!! Awesome ya.!!!

However, before the steamboat feast, we will need to prepare a big pot of tasty soup base first.

Below is my ultimate Steamboat's Soup base recipe:

Ingredients:

1. 2 large carrots (skin and cut into pieces)
2. 8-10 leaves of white cabbage (wash and cut into pieces)
3. 10-15 mushrooms (soaked and cut into half)
4. 1 whole chicken bones (best to remove fat and thoroughly clean it out)
5. 4-5 pieces of ginger
6. big pot of water
7. salt to taste
8. a bit of sugar

** note: carrot & white cabbage are secret weapons of the soup. They play important roles to sweeten the soup.

Steps:

1. Parboil the chicken bones inorder to remove the unpleasant smell of meat. Discard the water.
2. Fill your soup pot with water and bring it to boil.
3. Upon boiling, add in chicken bones and other ingredients excepts salt and sugar.
4. Let it boil for 8-10 minutes. Lower the heat and simmer for about 30-40 minutes. Add in salt and a bit of sugar to taste.

The soup now is ready for the simplest, delicious, yet healthy steamboat meal..!!!

On the other hands, we have also prepared our raw food as shown below:

As you can see, we have vegetables, various type of mushrooms, tofu, tofu skin, red snapper fish fillets, fresh tiger prawns, home made meat balls, noodles, chicken, cuttlefish and etc.....etc...

Now the output is.........

Processes of steamboat meal :

You will just need to pour your home made soup base into an electrical cooker. Turn on the power and increase the heat and then dump in some of the raw materials such as fish fillets, chicken, prawns, mushrooms, meat balls or fish balls. Cover it and let it come to boil. In a few minutes time,everything will be cooked and ready to eat...!!!! You can now start to scoop out the ingredients together with the soup and enjoy the meal.... Just remember not to over cook the food..... and it is best to have the garlic chili sauce .