Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, hot and sour soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Hot and Sour Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Hot and Sour Soup is something that I have loved my entire life.
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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hot and sour soup using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Hot and Sour Soup:
- Take 4 Dried Chinese fungi (1 oz) wood ears or cloud ears (in produce dept.)
- Make ready 2 Tbsp canola oil
- Take 1 ” piece of ginger, peeled ad grated
- Take 2-3 Tbsp red chili paste, sambal oelek
- Take 8 oz. button mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
- Prepare 1 small can water chestnuts, sliced and drained
- Get 1/2 cup canned bamboo shoots, drained
- Take 1/4 lb. shredded pork or chicken
- Make ready 1/2 cup soy sauce
- Make ready 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- Take 1 tsp ground white pepper
- Prepare Pinch sugar
- Make ready 2 quarts chicken stock, hot
- Prepare 1 square firm tofu, drained as cut into 1/4” strips
- Prepare 3 Tbsp cornstarch w/ 1/4 cup water
- Get 1 large egg beaten
- Prepare Chopped green onion and cilantro for garnish
The time required varies from an hour to two or three hours, as it depends on the thickness of the mushrooms. 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.
Instructions 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.
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. Hot and Sour Soup is one of my all-time favorite Chinese food recipes, made with pork and tofu in a savory broth that's a little bit hot, a little bit sour, and full of flavor.
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