Hot and Sour Soup
Hot and Sour Soup

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. 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 recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Hot and Sour Soup is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

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.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook hot and sour soup using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Hot and Sour Soup:
  1. Get 1 large chicken breast (boiled & shredded)
  2. Take 6 cups chicken stock
  3. Get 1 carrots (peeled & shredded)
  4. Prepare 1/2 cup(shredded) cabbage
  5. Get 4 tbs oil
  6. Take 6 tbs cornflour
  7. Make ready 1/2 cup white vinegar
  8. Make ready 1 egg
  9. Prepare 4 tbs dark soya sauce
  10. Make ready 1/2 tsp black pepper powder
  11. Make ready 1 tsp salt
  12. Make ready 2 tsp Chinese salt

Common key ingredients in the American Chinese version include bamboo shoots, toasted sesame oil. 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 pan add the chicken breast and 8 cups of water, boil the chicken till cooked completely.
  2. Remove the chicken once boiled, shred the chicken and keep the stock aside.
  3. In a pan add the chicken stock, bring it to a boil & add the shredded chicken and cook for 2minutes.
  4. Now add the carrots, cabbage mix well and keep the flame on medium and cook for 1 minute.
  5. Now add the salt, Chinese salt, soya sauce, black pepper and vinegar mix well and cook for 1 more minute.
  6. Mix cornflour and 1/2 cup of water to make the paste, add this to the soup, keep stirring while adding the cornflour as - you might get lumps.
  7. Once the soup is thickened, beat the egg and slowly add it to the soup.
  8. Heat the oil & add it to the soup. (purpose of reheat soup next day)
  9. The soup is ready serve hot

The broth is thickened and it's filled with mushrooms, tofu, bamboo shoots and silky egg ribbons. Hot and sour soup (Suan La Tang) is a common dish popular in China especially in cold winter. It is firstly invented for poor people who need to warm their body up. So lots of white pepper used. It has different versions in China.

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