Hot and Sour Soup
Hot and Sour Soup

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, hot and sour soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

This restaurant-style Hot and Sour Soup recipe is the best!! It's quick and simple to make, easy to adapt to your personal taste preferences, and so delicious! Hot and sour soup is a soup from Asian culinary traditions.

Hot and Sour Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Hot and Sour Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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. Take 4 Dried Chinese fungi (1 oz) wood ears or cloud ears (in produce dept.)
  2. Prepare 2 Tbsp canola oil
  3. Get 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. Make ready 1 small can water chestnuts, sliced and drained
  7. Make ready 1/2 cup canned bamboo shoots, drained
  8. Prepare 1/4 lb. shredded pork or chicken
  9. Take 1/2 cup soy sauce
  10. Take 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
  11. Get 1 tsp salt
  12. Take 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
  13. Make ready 1 tsp ground white pepper
  14. Get Pinch sugar
  15. Make ready 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. Make ready 1 large egg beaten
  19. Take Chopped green onion and cilantro for garnish

The time required varies from an hour to two or three hours, as it depends on the thickness of the mushrooms. Savoury, spicy, sour and hearty, Hot and Sour Soup is completely addictive! This recipe stacks up to the best Chinese restaurants. Hot and Sour soup is a Chinese soup that's savoury, spicy and tangy.

Steps 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.

The broth is thickened and it's filled with mushrooms, tofu, bamboo shoots and silky egg ribbons. 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. There was a time when I never thought to make it myself and resigned myself to the luck of the draw when it came to ordering it. Hot and sour soup (Suan La Tang) is a common dish popular in China especially in cold winter.

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