Warming Hot Pot with Deep Fried Meatballs and Chinese Sauce

• 300 grams Ground pork
• 1/2 Onion
• 1 medium Egg
• 1/2 tsp Grated ginger
• 1 dash Salt and pepper
• 2 tbsp Katakuriko
• 1 liter Water
• 1 tsp Weipa
• 2 tsp Cooking sake
• 1 tsp Sesame oil
• 6 tbsp Japanese style Worcestershire sauce
• 6 tbsp Toasted sesame seeds (or ground sesame seeds)
• 3 tbsp Soy sauce and dashi based ponzu
• 1 tbsp Sugar
• 1 tbsp Doubanjiang
• 1 tsp each Grated garlic and ginger
• 100 grams Kudzu noodles
• 1 Chinese cabbage, bok choy, Japanese leek, daikon radish, carrots, bean sprouts etc.
• 1 Shiitake, shimeji and/or enoki mushrooms
• 1 block Tofu or atsuage

1. Chop the onion finely, combine with the fried meatball ingredients and mix and knead well.
2. Roll into balls.
3. Heat the frying oil to 170C, fry the meatballs, and drain off the oil on paper towels.
4. Rehydrate the kudzu noodles following package instructions.
5. There are some noodles that can be used as-is, but they will suck up a lot of the soup if you add them dry.
6. Make the dipping sauce.
7. Grind up the toasted sesame seeds well in a grinding bowl, add the other ingredients and mix well.
8. Dilute it a little with the hot pot soup as you eat.
9. The soup is lightly flavored.
10. Please increase the amount of soup stock base, salt or soy sauce if you prefer.
11. If you start running out of soup, just add hot water.
12. Use whatever vegetables you can put together.
13. Since the sauce is well flavored, you can eat a lot of vegetables.

ground pork, onion, egg, ginger, salt, katakuriko, water, weipa, sake, sesame oil, japanese style worcestershire sauce, sesame seeds, soy sauce, sugar, doubanjiang, garlic, kudzu noodles, chinese cabbage, shiitake, atsuage

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/155058-warming-hot-pot-with-deep-fried-meatballs-and-chinese-sauce (may not work)