Hot and Sour Soup
Hot and Sour Soup

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, hot and sour soup. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Put the chicken in a large stockpot and place over medium heat. Toss in the green onions, garlic, ginger, onion, and peppercorns. Add mushrooms, chicken, soy sauce, chile paste, and garlic. Add tofu, bamboo shoots, vinegar, and white pepper.

Hot and Sour Soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Hot and Sour Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must 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. 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. Take 2-3 Tbsp red chili paste, sambal oelek
  5. Make ready 8 oz. button mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
  6. Prepare 1 small can water chestnuts, sliced and drained
  7. Make ready 1/2 cup canned bamboo shoots, drained
  8. Get 1/4 lb. shredded pork or chicken
  9. Take 1/2 cup soy sauce
  10. Make ready 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
  11. Get 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. Take 1 square firm tofu, drained as cut into 1/4” strips
  17. Prepare 3 Tbsp cornstarch w/ 1/4 cup water
  18. Take 1 large egg beaten
  19. Prepare Chopped green onion and cilantro for garnish

I recommend adding in a pinch, and then you can always add in more later. Or if you don't have white pepper, black pepper will also do. 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:
  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.

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. 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.

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