Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, hot and sour soup. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Hot and Sour Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Hot and Sour Soup is something that I have loved my entire life.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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:
- Take 4 Dried Chinese fungi (1 oz) wood ears or cloud ears (in produce dept.)
- Get 2 Tbsp canola oil
- Take 1 ” piece of ginger, peeled ad grated
- Prepare 2-3 Tbsp red chili paste, sambal oelek
- Get 8 oz. button mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
- Prepare 1 small can water chestnuts, sliced and drained
- Make ready 1/2 cup canned bamboo shoots, drained
- Take 1/4 lb. shredded pork or chicken
- Get 1/2 cup soy sauce
- Make ready 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Take 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- Make ready 1 tsp ground white pepper
- Take Pinch sugar
- Get 2 quarts chicken stock, hot
- Get 1 square firm tofu, drained as cut into 1/4” strips
- Get 3 Tbsp cornstarch w/ 1/4 cup water
- Get 1 large egg beaten
- Make ready Chopped green onion and cilantro for garnish
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. For these two opposing qualities, vinegar (for sour) and white pepper (for hot) are mostly responsible.
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.
It is firstly invented for poor people who need to warm their body up. So lots of white pepper used. It has different versions in China. Add the chilli, Shaoxing rice wine, vegetable stock, bamboo shoots and the. In a saucepan, combine the chicken stock, water, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, root ginger, garlic, soy sauce and crushed chillies.
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