Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, hot and sour soup. It is one of my favorites. 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 favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Hot and Sour Soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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.
To get started 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 cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Hot and Sour Soup:
- Make ready 4 Dried Chinese fungi (1 oz) wood ears or cloud ears (in produce dept.)
- Get 2 Tbsp canola oil
- Make ready 1 ” piece of ginger, peeled ad grated
- Make ready 2-3 Tbsp red chili paste, sambal oelek
- Make ready 8 oz. button mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
- Get 1 small can water chestnuts, sliced and drained
- Take 1/2 cup canned bamboo shoots, drained
- Make ready 1/4 lb. shredded pork or chicken
- Make ready 1/2 cup soy sauce
- Take 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- Take 1 tsp ground white pepper
- Prepare Pinch sugar
- Get 2 quarts chicken stock, hot
- Take 1 square firm tofu, drained as cut into 1/4” strips
- Get 3 Tbsp cornstarch w/ 1/4 cup water
- Take 1 large egg beaten
- Get Chopped green onion and cilantro for garnish
The broth is thickened and it's filled with mushrooms, tofu, bamboo shoots and silky egg ribbons. The traditional hot and sour soup recipe call for Chinese dry shiitake mushroom. Soak the mushrooms in water until it is fully hydrated and become very soft and easy to cut. The time required varies from an hour to two or three hours, as it depends on the thickness of the mushrooms.
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.
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 is a lot like chili; every family has their own recipe, and each family thinks that theirs is the best. I made this last night and it turned out fantastic!
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