Dan Dan Noodle Hot Pot with Lots of Cabbage and Bean Sprouts

• 1 Sesame oil
• 1 clove Garlic
• 1 piece Ginger
• 170 grams Ground mixed pork and beef (or use ground chicken for a lighter flavor)
• 1/2 Japanese leek (for the meat-miso)
• 2 tsp Doubanjiang
• 2 tsp Shaoxing wine (or cooking sake)
• 800 ml Hot water
• 1 1/2 tbsp Chinese soup stock
• 4 tbsp Zhi ma jiang (or ground sesame seeds, or tahini)
• 1 1/2 tbsp Vinegar
• 1 1/2 tbsp Soy sauce
• 4 tbsp Ground sesame seeds
• 3 tbsp Ra-yu with Szechuan pepper (or regular ra-yu with chili pepper)
• 1 Black pepper
• 2 head Bok choy
• 1/2 Cabbage
• 1 and 1/2 stalks Japanese leek (for the hot pot)
• 1 bag Bean sprouts
• 1 bunch Enoki mushrooms

1. Make the meat-miso: Spread sesame oil in a pan and stir fry the finely chopped garlic and ginger.
2. When it's fragrant, add the ground meat and keep stir frying.
3. Meat-miso continued: When the ground meat is cooked through, add the finely chopped leek, shaoxing wine and doubanjiang and stir fry some more.
4. Transfer to a plate.
5. Prepare the vegetables: Separate the leaves one by one from the root end.
6. Slice the leek diagonally.
7. Take the root end off the enoki mushrooms and shred.
8. Vegetables, continued: Cut 2/3 of the cabbage into pieces.
9. Shred the remaining 1/3.
10. Put the flavoring ingredients in a pot and bring a boil.
11. Add the vegetables from Step 3, the cut up (not shredded) cabbage from Step 4, and the meat-miso from Step 2.
12. When it's cooked through, add 1/2 of the bean sprouts on top and simmer (kamaboko not listed)
13. Add the rest of the bean sprouts and the shredded cabbage, and it's done.
14. The cabbage and bean sprouts are delicious simmered until tender too.
15. Variations: beef tendon, harusame glass noodles, Chinese chives, shiitake mushrooms, wiener sausages, spinach, meatballs, tofu, daikon radish.
16. Variation: As the 'shime' (last course) for the hot pot, try pho noodles, ramen noodles, plain rice or udon noodles.
17. Variation: Add miso for Miso-dan dan nabe.

sesame oil, clove garlic, ginger, ground mixed pork, japanese, doubanjiang, wine, water, chinese soup stock, zhi, vinegar, soy sauce, ground sesame seeds, pepper, black pepper, head bok choy, cabbage, stalks japanese, sprouts, enoki mushrooms

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/152218-dan-dan-noodle-hot-pot-with-lots-of-cabbage-and-bean-sprouts (may not work)