13 Delicious and Easy Fish Hot Pot Recipes for Home

1. Snakehead Fish Hot Pot

Snakehead fish hot pot is a familiar and rustic dish in Southern Vietnam. The combination of bone broth, lá giang (a type of leaf), chili, and fresh snakehead fish creates a spicy, tangy, and sweet hot pot that excites the taste buds.

What could be better than gathering with family on weekends around a pot of snakehead fish hot pot, enjoying the sweet and tender fish with chili fish sauce?

2. Stingray Hot Pot

Stingray hot pot is not too complicated but still very attractive because of its delicious flavor. Stingray cooked with pickled bamboo shoots or lá giang offers a light and refreshing sour taste.

The steaming hot pot of stingray, served with rau nhút (a type of herb), shredded banana blossom, mint, and a bowl of chili fish sauce, looks truly tempting. The sweet, soft, and smooth taste of the fish brings the taste of the sea to you.

3. Giant Catfish Hot Pot

A list of delicious hot pot dishes certainly cannot miss giant catfish hot pot with pickled bamboo shoots. This hot pot is suitable for both hot summer days and cold winter days.

The combination of firm, sweet giant catfish and pickled bamboo shoots, pineapple, chili, etc., creates a hot pot with a rich sweet and sour flavor with a hint of spiciness.

4. Trichogaster Hot Pot

If you are looking for a delicious, refreshing dish to cool down on hot summer days, Trichogaster hot pot with bitter melon is a great choice! It looks simple but holds an irresistible charm.

The combination of the bitterness of bitter melon, the sweetness of ground fish patties, the saltiness of fish sauce, and the aroma of cilantro creates a delicious, nutritious, and healthy hot pot.

5. Greater Amberjack Hot Pot

Greater amberjack is a highly popular seafood due to its high nutritional value. Therefore, greater amberjack hot pot is very popular today.

Greater amberjack hot pot has a rich sweet and sour flavor, combined with vegetables like rau nhút and water spinach, it looks very appealing. You won’t forget the feeling of enjoying a firm, chewy piece of amberjack, not at all fishy, combined with the salty and spicy chili fish sauce.

6. Salmon Hot Pot

Salmon hot pot can be prepared in many different ways. Salmon cooked with kimchi, pickled bamboo shoots, or passion fruit all offer irresistible flavors.

If the rich salmon combined with kimchi creates a spicy Thai-style hot pot, and the combination with pickled bamboo shoots results in a sweet and sour delight, then the combination with passion fruit offers a unique and intriguing flavor. Each flavor has its own characteristic and unique appeal.

7. Carp Hot Pot

Carp hot pot is a nutritious dish with excellent health benefits, especially for pregnant women.

Unlike other hot pots, carp hot pot has a characteristic mild, rich sour flavor. The fragrant, steaming hot pot combines the deliciousness and sweetness of the fish and bone broth with the aroma of fennel, looking truly appealing.

The hot pot can be eaten with many types of vegetables such as water spinach, celery, shredded banana blossom,… Don’t forget to prepare a bowl of salty fish sauce to enhance the flavor!

8. Tilapia Hot Pot

On chilly days, enjoying a pot of tilapia hot pot is unbeatable.Just a few simple steps and you’ll have a delicious, spicy, and warm hot pot.

The faint aroma of the simmering hot pot, the pieces of cooked tilapia swimming in the rich fish sauce, will make you savor every mouthful.

9. Spotted Snakehead Hot Pot

Spotted snakehead is a brackish water fish often used in simple home-cooked dishes. Besides fried and grilled spotted snakehead, spotted snakehead hot pot is also very delicious and unique.

Preparing spotted snakehead hot pot is not too complicated; with just a little time, you can enjoy a characteristic spicy and sour hot pot combined with the rich flavor of spotted snakehead meat and refreshing accompanying vegetables.

10. Grouper Hot Pot

While spotted snakehead has rich meat, grouper has firm and sweet meat. Therefore, grouper hot pot is favored by many people today.

The hot pot has the inherent spicy and sour flavor of bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and chili slices. The sweetness of the fish and straw mushrooms combine with the faint characteristic aroma of lemongrass. All of this creates a perfect, delicious, and irresistible meal.

11. Snakehead Murrel Hot Pot

Snakehead murrel hot pot has long been a familiar dish in the Southern region of Vietnam. People in the South often use snakehead murrel to cook with pickled bamboo shoots or mushrooms; each cooking method brings unique and characteristic flavors.

Snakehead murrel combined with mushrooms creates a hot pot with a light, sweet flavor from the bone broth and fish stock. While the combination with pickled bamboo shoots creates a spicy and sour Thai-style flavor mixed with the mild sweetness of snakehead murrel.

12. Small Fish Hot Pot

When it comes to Western Vietnamese cuisine, one cannot forget the small fish hot pot with water mimosa. This savory dish, characteristic of the river region, has captivated many.

Small fish hot pot has a sweet and fresh flavor, simply combined from fresh, sweet small fish and water mimosa petals with a nutty and rich flavor and a light, gentle aroma. All of this creates a characteristic dish that is unmistakable.

13. Catfish Hot Pot

If small fish hot pot has a sweet and fresh flavor, catfish hot pot has a mildly sour and fragrant flavor, rich in nutritional value. When savoring it, you will immediately feel the rich sweetness of thinly sliced fish dipped in the flavorful hot pot broth, combined with vermicelli noodles and vegetables—truly delicious and irresistible.

So, Dien May XANH’s kitchen has just guided you through simple and diverse fish hot pot recipes. Choose your favorite fish hot pot recipe and get cooking!