Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, hot and sour soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Hot and Sour Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Hot and Sour Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook hot and sour soup using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Hot and Sour Soup:
- Take 4 Dried Chinese fungi (1 oz) wood ears or cloud ears (in produce dept.)
- Prepare 2 Tbsp canola oil
- Prepare 1 ” piece of ginger, peeled ad grated
- Get 2-3 Tbsp red chili paste, sambal oelek
- Prepare 8 oz. button mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
- Make ready 1 small can water chestnuts, sliced and drained
- Prepare 1/2 cup canned bamboo shoots, drained
- Take 1/4 lb. shredded pork or chicken
- Prepare 1/2 cup soy sauce
- Make ready 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- Prepare 1 tsp ground white pepper
- Make ready Pinch sugar
- Get 2 quarts chicken stock, hot
- Make ready 1 square firm tofu, drained as cut into 1/4” strips
- Take 3 Tbsp cornstarch w/ 1/4 cup water
- Prepare 1 large egg beaten
- Prepare Chopped green onion and cilantro for garnish
The spicy hot comes from the white pepper, and the sour comes from the vinegar. Hot and Sour soup is a Chinese soup that's savoury, spicy and tangy. The broth is thickened and it's filled with mushrooms, tofu, bamboo shoots and silky egg ribbons. The flavour and textures in this soup are an addictive combination, making it a firm Chinese restaurant favourite!
Steps to make Hot and Sour Soup:
- In a small bowl add the dried mushrooms and pour boiling water over them let sit at least 15-29 minutes to rehydrate. Drain and cut into strips
- In large pot put chicken stock to heat up.
- Heat wok or large skillet with sides. Add the oil to heat on medium high.
- To the hot oil add the finger, chili paste, wood ears, button mushrooms, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots and meat. Cook for 1 minute to infuse flavors.
- Next combine soy sauce, vinegars, salt, red pepper flakes, white pepper and sugar. Pour into pan and stir everything together. Will smell amazing!
- Add in the hot chicken stock, bring to boil and then simmer for 10 minutes.
- Add in tofu and cook for 3 minutes m
- Combine cornstarch and water to make a slurry. Add to soup and simmer until it thickens.
- Remove pot from heat and with a spoon swirl soup in 1 direction and add in beaten egg which should cook immediately. Stir to blend egg.
- Garnishes
- Serve soup topped with garnish.
The broth is thickened and it's filled with mushrooms, tofu, bamboo shoots and silky egg ribbons. The flavour and textures in this soup are an addictive combination, making it a firm Chinese restaurant favourite! Add mushrooms, chicken, soy sauce, chile paste, and garlic. Add tofu, bamboo shoots, vinegar, and white pepper. You Asked for It - Hot and Sour Soup!
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