Easiest Way to Prepare Delicious Hot and Sour Soup

Hot and Sour Soup. Hot and Sour Soup Ingredients: To make this hot and sour soup recipe, you will need: Broth: Either chicken or veggie stock (or broth) will do. Mushrooms: I highly recommend using shiitake mushrooms, but baby bella or even button mushrooms would also do. Rice vinegar, soy sauce, chili garlic sauce, ground ginger: To flavor the broth.; Cornstarch: To thicken the broth.

After trimming off any tough stems, slice the mushrooms. With the fingers, shred the tiger lily stems. You Asked for It - Hot and Sour Soup! You can cook Hot and Sour Soup using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Hot and Sour Soup

1. Prepare 4 of Dried Chinese fungi (1 oz) wood ears or cloud ears (in produce dept.).
2. You need 2 Tbsp of canola oil.
3. It's 1 of ” piece of ginger, peeled ad grated.
4. You need 2-3 Tbsp of red chili paste, sambal oelek.
5. It's 8 oz. of button mushrooms, cleaned and sliced.
6. It's 1 of small can water chestnuts, sliced and drained.
7. Prepare 1/2 cup of canned bamboo shoots, drained.
8. You need 1/4 lb. of shredded pork or chicken.
9. You need 1/2 cup of soy sauce.
10. You need 1/2 cup of rice wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar.
11. You need 1 tsp of salt.
12. You need 1/2 tsp of red pepper flakes.
13. It's 1 tsp of ground white pepper.
14. You need Pinch of sugar.
15. It's 2 quarts of chicken stock, hot.
16. You need 1 of square firm tofu, drained as cut into 1/4” strips.
17. You need 3 Tbsp of cornstarch w/ 1/4 cup water.
18. You need 1 of large egg beaten.
19. You need of Chopped green onion and cilantro for garnish.

Hot and Sour Soup Basic Ingredients: Mushrooms: I used white mushrooms for this recipe because that's what my local grocery store had on hand but, shiitake mushrooms will give it a more authentic flavor if you can get your hands on some. A Chinese restaurant favourite, it's hearty, savoury, sour - and as spicy as you want it to be. Filled with mushrooms, tofu and silky egg ribbons, Hot and Sour soup is thickened with cornflour/cornstarch so the broth is beautifully glossy. In this Chinese soup recipe, an egg is stirred in at the end to form tiny ribbons.

Hot and Sour Soup step by step

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 more flavor, add a teaspoon of toasted sesame oil just before serving. Note: Be sure to drain the tofu thoroughly before adding it to the soup so it will soak up the flavor of the broth. Chinese restaurant-style hot and sour soup made easy! The hearty, spicy, sour broth is loaded with mushrooms, silky eggs, and tofu. I've included lots of notes so you can tweak the recipe with the ingredients you have on hand, plus how to make this dish vegetarian.