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Hot and sour soup
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Hot and Sour Soup recipe - the classic Szechuan recipe for hot and sour soup.
Ingredients
- 2 pints (1.5 litres) good chicken stock
- 4 dried Chinese mushrooms
- Few strips of cooked meat ( chicken, pork or ham)
- 2 oz bamboo shoots
- 1 oz defrosted frozen peas
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 free-range eggs
- * To flavour and thicken
- ** 3 tablespoons white wine vinegar
- ** 1.5 tablespoons dark soy sauce
- ** ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- ** 3 tablespoons cornflour blended to a paste with 3 tablespoons of water
Method
- Soak the mushrooms in boiled water for 20 minutes, squeeze excess water, remove stalks and slice thinly
- Shred the cooked meat and bamboo shoots
- Beat the eggs
- Mix together the thickening ingredients
- Heat the stock in a large pan
- Add everything but the eggs and thickening, bring to the boil, cover simmer for 5 minutes
- Pour in the thickening and stir until the consistency changes
- Stir the soup so it rotates and gradually pour the eggs into the soup in a thin stream
Serving suggestions
Serve immediately
