Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, hot and sour soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook 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:
Prepare 4 Dried Chinese fungi (1 oz) wood ears or cloud ears (in produce dept.)
Make ready 2 Tbsp canola oil
Get 1 ” piece of ginger, peeled ad grated
Make ready 2-3 Tbsp red chili paste, sambal oelek
Take 8 oz. button mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
Get 1 small can water chestnuts, sliced and drained
Prepare 1/2 cup canned bamboo shoots, drained
Prepare 1/4 lb. shredded pork or chicken
Get 1/2 cup soy sauce
Take 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
Prepare 1 tsp salt
Prepare 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
Make ready 1 tsp ground white pepper
Prepare Pinch sugar
Prepare 2 quarts chicken stock, hot
Prepare 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
Prepare Chopped green onion and cilantro for garnish
Steps 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.
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