Hot and Sour Soup
Hot and Sour Soup

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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.

Hot and Sour Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Hot and Sour Soup is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook hot and sour soup using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Hot and Sour Soup:
  1. Get 1 small carrot
  2. Get 5-6 button mushrooms
  3. Make ready 1/4 cup shredded cabbage
  4. Take ¼ cup finely chopped french beans
  5. Get 1 small onion, finely chopped
  6. Take 1 teaspoon finely chopped garlic
  7. Take 1 teaspoon finely chopped ginger
  8. Prepare 4-5 teaspoons corn starch dissolved in 2 tablespoons water
  9. Prepare 3/4 teaspoon black pepper or white pepper
  10. Get 3/4 teaspoon red chilli paste or green chilli sauce
  11. Get 3 teaspoon soy sauce
  12. Make ready 2 teaspoon rice vinegar
  13. Make ready 2.5 cups water or veg stock
  14. Prepare 2-3 teaspoons chopped coriander leaves (cilantro leaves)

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. Savoury, spicy, sour and hearty, Hot and Sour Soup is completely addictive!

Instructions to make Hot and Sour Soup:
  1. First rinse and shred the cabbage and french beans. Wipe the mushrooms with a wet cloth and then slice them. - rinse, peel and grate the carrots. chop the onions, ginger and garlic. - stir-frying veggies for hot and sour soup - heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan or kadhai (wok). - Add finely chopped onion, ginger and garlic. Stir and saute on a medium flame for 2 minutes.
  2. Then add the finely chopped french beans. stir and add the sliced mushrooms. - on a medium to high flame, stir fry till the mushrooms get lightly browned from the edges. - meanwhile make a paste of corn starch and water. Keep aside. - once the mushrooms are lightly browned (takes about 5 to 6 minutes on a medium to high flame) add carrots, cabbage and celery.
  3. Stir fry these veggies on a high flame for 2 to 3 minutes. - Making hot and sour soup-Add water or veg stock. stir well. add soy sauce and stir. - then season with salt.
  4. Stir the corn starch paste and add it to the soup. Stir again very well. - Allow the soup to thicken on a low to medium flame. - when the hot and sour soup has thickened, add black pepper or white pepper and vinegar. - give a final stir. switch off the flame.
  5. Check the taste and add more soy sauce, vinegar or salt or black pepper if required. - serve the hot and sour soup steaming hot garnished with cilantro leaves. - you can also just add the cilantro leaves towards the end and then serve the soup.
  6. NOTE- - you can add veggies of your choice. - The recipe can be easily doubled or tripled.

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 (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.

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