Hot and Sour Soup
Hot and Sour Soup

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, hot and sour soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Hot and Sour Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Hot and Sour Soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

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

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 (Suan La Tang) is a common dish popular in China especially in cold winter. It is firstly invented for poor people who need to warm their body up.

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.

So lots of white pepper used. It has different versions in China. In Sichuan area, hot and sour soup is called as Suan La Tang which is. 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.

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