Hot and Sour Soup
Hot and Sour Soup

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, hot and sour soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Hot and Sour Soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Hot and Sour Soup is something which I have loved my whole life.

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

The time required varies from an hour to two or three hours, as it depends on the thickness of the mushrooms. Savoury, spicy, sour and hearty, Hot and Sour Soup is completely addictive! This recipe stacks up to the best Chinese restaurants. Hot and Sour soup is a Chinese soup that's savoury, spicy and tangy.

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.

The broth is thickened and it's filled with mushrooms, tofu, bamboo shoots and silky egg ribbons. 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 one of my all-time favorite Chinese food recipes, made with pork and tofu in a savory broth that's a little bit hot, a little bit sour, and full of flavor.

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