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Salt Chanko Hot Pot Soup with Chicken Dumplings - Recipe Video

A simple and easy to understand recipe video shows how to make Salt Chanko Hot Pot Soup with Chicken Dumplings.
This is a salt flavored chanko pot soup full of meat and vegetables. This time we made it in a regular pot like soup, but it is also perfect as a hot pot dish where everyone can sit around the pot during the cold season. This soup is full of the flavor of vegetables such as pork belly, chicken dumplings, daikon radish, and carrots. You can also enjoy the udon noodles and zosui as a final dish. You should definitely give it a try!
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Cook time

30 minutes

Ingredients
2 servings

  • Pork belly
    150 g
  • Burdock root
    50 g
  • Water
    as needed
  • Daikon radish
    50 g
  • Carrot
    50 g
  • Japanese leek
    1/2
  • Shiitake mushroom
    2
  • Thin fried tofu (Abura-age)
    1 sheets
  • Chicken Meatballs
  • Ground chicken
    150 g
  • Japanese leek
    1/4
  • Grated ginger
    1/2 tsp
  • Starch
    1 tsp
  • Salt
    a pinch
  • Soup
  • Water
    600 ml
  • Sake
    3 tbsp
  • Japanese sweet cooking wine (Mirin)
    2 tbsp
  • Chicken soup stock (powder, cube, liquid)
    2 tsp
  • Garlic
    1
  • Grated ginger
    1/2 tsp
  • Sugar
    1 tsp
  • Salt
    1/2 tsp
  • Sesame oil
    2 tsp

How to make

  1. Prepare. Mince the garlic.
  2. 1. First we will make the chicken dumplings. Mince Japanese leek, put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix until it becomes sticky.
  3. 2. Scrape the burdock root skin off with the back of a knife, cut it into thin shavings, soak it in water, and let it sit for 5 minutes, then drain.
  4. 3. Peel daikon radish and cut it into quarters. Peel the carrot and cut it into half-moons. Remove hard tips of the shiitake mushrooms.
  5. 4. Slice Japanese leek diagonally into 0.4-inch wide pieces.
  6. 5. Cut thin fried tofu (abura-age) into bite-sized pieces after pressing the oil with a paper towel.
  7. 6. Cut pork belly into bite-sized pieces.
  8. 7. Put all the ingredients for the soup into the pot and boil over medium heat. Reduce the heat, roll the meat mix made in Step 1 into bite-sized balls and drop into the pot, add the pork belly from Step 6 and bring to a boil over medium heat, then add Step 2, 3 and 5, then cover with a lid and cook until the vegetables become tender.
  9. 8. Finally, add the leek from Step 4 and bring to a boil, then add sesame oil and it's done!

Tips for cooking

You can also add ingredients such as Chinese cabbages (hakusai), mizuna mustard greens, enoki mushrooms, and grilled tofu (yaki-tofu). You can adjust the amount of salt to your liking.

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