Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, hot and sour soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Hot and sour soup is a soup from Asian culinary traditions. In all cases, the soup contains ingredients to make it both spicy and sour. Soup preparation may use chicken or pork broth, or may be meat-free. The traditional hot and sour soup recipe call for Chinese dry shiitake mushroom.
Hot and Sour Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Hot and Sour Soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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.)
- Get 2 Tbsp canola oil
- Take 1 ” piece of ginger, peeled ad grated
- Get 2-3 Tbsp red chili paste, sambal oelek
- Prepare 8 oz. button mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
- Get 1 small can water chestnuts, sliced and drained
- Take 1/2 cup canned bamboo shoots, drained
- Get 1/4 lb. shredded pork or chicken
- Prepare 1/2 cup soy sauce
- Get 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Get 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- Get 1 tsp ground white pepper
- Make ready Pinch sugar
- Take 2 quarts chicken stock, hot
- Make ready 1 square firm tofu, drained as cut into 1/4” strips
- Prepare 3 Tbsp cornstarch w/ 1/4 cup water
- Prepare 1 large egg beaten
- Prepare Chopped green onion and cilantro for garnish
Hot and sour soup can be found on any takeout menu or Chinese buffet line in the US. It ranges in quality and flavor from awesomely delicious to lukewarm, tasteless, and gloopy. There was a time when I never thought to make it myself and resigned myself to the luck of the draw when it came to ordering it. Savoury, spicy, sour and hearty, Hot and Sour Soup is completely addictive!
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.
There was a time when I never thought to make it myself and resigned myself to the luck of the draw when it came to ordering it. Savoury, spicy, sour and hearty, Hot and Sour Soup is completely addictive! This recipe stacks up to the best Chinese restaurants. 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.
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