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Hot and Sour Soup

Hot and Sour Soup — a recipe, 13 ingredients, about 20 min.

Serves 4 · 20 min

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Ingredients

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  • 6 cups chicken stock or broth (or 4 cups water and 4 chicken bouillon cubes)
  • 4 ½ tablespoons soy sauce
  • ⅓ cup cooked shredded chicken or pork
  • ¾ cup mushrooms, diced
  • ¾ tablespoon garlic chili sauce
  • ⅓ teaspoon freshly-ground black pepper
  • ⅓ cup white vinegar
  • ½ cup canned bamboo shoots, julienned
  • 4 ½ oz block of tofu, cut into ¼-inch dice
  • 3 tablespoons cornstarch and 2 tablespoons cold water
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 3 green onion stalks, diced (including tops)
  • ¾ teaspoon toasted sesame oil

Steps

  1. Bring chicken broth to a simmer in a 2-quart saucepan.
  2. Add soy sauce, shredded meat, mushrooms and garlic chili sauce. Simmer for 5 minutes.
  3. Add black pepper, white vinegar, bamboo shoots, tofu. Simmer for 5 minutes.
  4. Combine 3 tablespoons of cornstarch with 2 tablespoons of cold water in a cup. Stir until mixture is smooth. Add cornstarch mixture to soup and stir well.
  5. Simmer for 5 minutes until soup is thickened.
  6. Beat egg in a cup until yolk and white are combined. Pour beaten egg slowly, in a fine stream into soup. Stir soup several times, then wait 30 seconds.
  7. Add green onions and sesame oil to soup. Stir well and remove from heat.
  8. Serve hot.

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Source

Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0