Hot and Sour Soup
Hot and Sour Soup

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, hot and sour soup. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Hot and Sour Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Hot and Sour Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

Dissolve the cornstarch in the water and stir until smooth. Consider it the finishing touch: for perfect silky strands, you'll have to remove the pot from heat and. There are two seasonings to bring out the iconic flavors of hot and sour soup: soy sauce and vinegar.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to 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:
  1. Make ready 4 Dried Chinese fungi (1 oz) wood ears or cloud ears (in produce dept.)
  2. Make ready 2 Tbsp canola oil
  3. Take 1 ” piece of ginger, peeled ad grated
  4. Make ready 2-3 Tbsp red chili paste, sambal oelek
  5. Get 8 oz. button mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
  6. Take 1 small can water chestnuts, sliced and drained
  7. Get 1/2 cup canned bamboo shoots, drained
  8. Prepare 1/4 lb. shredded pork or chicken
  9. Prepare 1/2 cup soy sauce
  10. Prepare 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
  11. Get 1 tsp salt
  12. Prepare 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
  13. Make ready 1 tsp ground white pepper
  14. Prepare Pinch sugar
  15. Make ready 2 quarts chicken stock, hot
  16. Make ready 1 square firm tofu, drained as cut into 1/4” strips
  17. Take 3 Tbsp cornstarch w/ 1/4 cup water
  18. Make ready 1 large egg beaten
  19. Make ready Chopped green onion and cilantro for garnish

Eaten as an appetizer before a meal or as the main dish, it's a rich and flavorful soup that's hard to beat. Luckily, you don't have to visit your local restaurant to enjoy a hearty bowl of hot and sour soup. You'll be surprised at just how easy it is to make! Chinese Hot-and-Sour Soup This authentic soup is essentially an ancient doctor's curative that combines the healing magic of chicken broth, the circulation-enhancing qualities of tree fungus and.

Instructions to make Hot and Sour Soup:
  1. 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
  2. In large pot put chicken stock to heat up.
  3. Heat wok or large skillet with sides. Add the oil to heat on medium high.
  4. 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.
  5. Next combine soy sauce, vinegars, salt, red pepper flakes, white pepper and sugar. Pour into pan and stir everything together. Will smell amazing!
  6. Add in the hot chicken stock, bring to boil and then simmer for 10 minutes.
  7. Add in tofu and cook for 3 minutes m
  8. Combine cornstarch and water to make a slurry. Add to soup and simmer until it thickens.
  9. 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.
  10. Garnishes
  11. Serve soup topped with garnish.

Place the mushrooms, tiger lily buds, stock, bamboo shoots, and shredded pork into a saucepan. Stir in soy sauce, sugar, salt, white pepper, and vinegar. White pepper gives the soup its signature heat, and the vinegar levels can be adjusted according to how sour you like your hot and sour soup. Keep the soup simmering (it should be bubbling before you add the egg, or the soup will turn cloudy when the egg is added), and begin stirring in a circular motion with your ladle once again. Hot and sour soup (Suan La Tang) is a common dish popular in China especially in cold winter.

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