Listing Posts in a Category

I want to have a little section on my site that lists the most recent 5 posts from a category as a list.

I know there is an easy way to do it, I just can not see it in the codex.

Any ideas?

What the code might look like:

<h3>hot</h3>
<ul>
<li>the post title from category hot</li>
</ul>