Hot and Sour Soup
Hot and Sour Soup

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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.

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

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook hot and sour soup using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Hot and Sour Soup:
  1. Make ready 4 Dried Chinese fungi (1 oz) wood ears or cloud ears (in produce dept.)
  2. Take 2 Tbsp canola oil
  3. Take 1 ” piece of ginger, peeled ad grated
  4. Get 2-3 Tbsp red chili paste, sambal oelek
  5. Get 8 oz. button mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
  6. Make ready 1 small can water chestnuts, sliced and drained
  7. Prepare 1/2 cup canned bamboo shoots, drained
  8. Take 1/4 lb. shredded pork or chicken
  9. Prepare 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. Prepare 1 tsp ground white pepper
  14. Prepare Pinch sugar
  15. Prepare 2 quarts chicken stock, hot
  16. Take 1 square firm tofu, drained as cut into 1/4” strips
  17. Get 3 Tbsp cornstarch w/ 1/4 cup water
  18. Make ready 1 large egg beaten
  19. Get Chopped green onion and cilantro for garnish

Hot and sour soup is a soup from Asian culinary traditions. In all cases, the soup contains ingredients to make it both spicy and sour. Soup preparation may use chicken or pork broth, or may be meat-free. Savoury, spicy, sour and hearty, Hot and Sour Soup is completely addictive!

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.

This recipe stacks up to the best Chinese restaurants. Hot and Sour soup is a Chinese soup that's savoury, spicy and tangy. The broth is thickened and it's filled with mushrooms, tofu, bamboo shoots and silky egg ribbons. Hot and sour soup is a lot like chili; every family has their own recipe, and each family thinks that theirs is the best. Hot and sour soup (Suan La Tang) is a common dish popular in China especially in cold winter.

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