Steps to Make Hot and Sour Soup in 15 Minutes for Mom

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, hot and sour soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Hot and Sour Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Hot and Sour Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire 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 begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. 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:

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