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Hot And Sour Soup
 
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes
Cook Time: 15 Minutes
Ready In: 15 Minutes
Servings: 6
Soup With sour flavor And With Lovely ingredients
Ingredients:
4 dried chinese mushrooms –sliced
4 button mushroom sliced
2 squares, 3 inches each, -fresh -chinese bean curd, about -1/2 inch thick (also known as tofu)
1/2 cup canned bamboo shoots
1/2 cup boneless chicken
1 liter chicken stock, fresh
1 tsp salt
1/4 cup scallion (sabz piaz) , including the -green top, finely chopped
1tsp soy sauce
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp chili sauce
1/4 tsp ground white-pepper
2 tbsp white vinegar
2 tbsp cornstarch* -mixed with 3 tablespoon -cold water
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 tsp sesame seed oil
Directions:
1. In a small bowl, cover the mushrooms with 1/2 cup of warm water and let them soak for 20 minutes.
2. Discard the water. Cut them horizontally into paper-thin slices.
3. Cover bamboo shoots with cold water by 2 inches in a small saucepan,
4. then bring just to a boil (to remove bitterness) and drain in a sieve. rinse them in cold Water,
5. Shred them as fine as the mushrooms.With a sharp knife shred the chicken meat too.
6. Stir together vinegars, light soy sauce, sugar, chili sauce, Ground white-pepper and salt in another small bowl.
7. Heat a pan/wok over high heat until a bead of water vaporizes within 1 to 2 seconds of contact.
8. Pour cooking oil down side of wok, then swirl oil, tilting wok to coat sides.
9. Add Chicken and stir-fry until meat just changes color, about 1 minute,
10. then add mushrooms and bamboo shoots and stir-fry 1 minute.
11. Add broth and bring to a boil, then add tofu (bean curd). Return to a boil and add vinegar mixture. Stir cornstarch mixture, then add to broth and return to a boil, stirring. (Liquid will thicken.) Reduce heat to moderate and simmer 2 minute.
12. Beat eggs with a fork and add a few drops of sesame oil.
13. Add eggs to soup in a thin stream, stirring slowly in one direction with a spoon. Stir in white pepper,
14. then drizzle in remaining sesame oil and divide among 6 to 8 bowls. Sprinkle with scallions and cilantro before serving
15. TIP:
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17. If soup is not thick enough, add 1 more spoons of cornstarch (mixed into cold water) into the soup
By RecipeOfHealth.com