Hotpot Dipping Sauces

Ingredients

• sesame oil
• peanut oil or vegetable oil (consider the flavor of the oil in this case)
• garlic
• salt
• 1 tablespoon roasted sichuan peppercorn (for Sichuan pepper salt)
• 1/2 tablespoon salt (for Sichuan pepper salt)

Directions

1. 1

   Each of the ingredients above is a dipping sauce, all by itself, other than the sichuan pepper and salt.

2. 2

   Provide small bowls of each dip for each individual diner.

3. 3

   ============= Sichuan Pepper Salt ============.

4. 4

   Dry roast the Sichuan peppers until they are fragrant -- do NOT burn them.

5. 5

   Using a coffee grinder or mortar and pestle, grind the peppers.

6. 6

   You may either serve the pepper and salt in individual dipping bowls or you can mix the salt and pepper to create a single dipping ingredient.