Hot and Sour Soup
Hot and Sour Soup

Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, hot and sour soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Hot and Sour Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Hot and Sour Soup is something that I have loved my whole life.

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

Tofu is simmered with bamboo shoot, shiitake mushrooms, cloud ear mushrooms, ham and eggs in a hot and sour soup base. 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 soups are made in a variety of blends, featuring an array of ingredients that make it challenging to pinpoint the exact list of what creates the exotic, savory balance of hot and sour.

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.

For these two opposing qualities, vinegar (for sour) and white pepper (for hot) are mostly responsible. Hot and Sour soup gets its punchy flavours from a combination of condiments i.e. soy, dark soy, chili sauce, and vinegar. The regular soy sauce is the robust fore note, the dark soy adds a mild yet rich umami to it. The key question is what chili sauce works best? Although I am an avowed fan of Sambal Oelek here (just as with the.

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