Hot-Sour Soup Recipe

Free Recipe Hot-Sour Soup

Recipe Type: S Recipes

Recipe Preparation: boil

Cooking Ingredients for Hot-Sour Soup Recipe

3 Or
4 Dried black mushrooms
1/4 lb Lean pork
2 Bean curd cubes
1 Scallion
1 Egg
2 tb Cornstarch
1/4 c Water
5 c Stock (see recipe)
1 c Mushroom soaking liquid
1 tb Sherry
2 tb White vinegar
3/4 -(up to)
1 ts Salt
1 ts Soy sauce
1/4 ts Pepper
3 dr Sesame oil; more or less

Hot-Sour Soup Preparation

1. Soak dried mushrooms. Reserve soaking liquid. 2. Sliver mushrooms, pork and bean curd. Mince scallion. Beat egg lightly. Blend cornstarch and cold water to a paste. 3. Bring stock and mushroom-soaking liquid to a boil. Add pork and mushrooms and simmer, covered, 10 minutes. 4. Add bean curd and simmer, covered, 3 minutes more. 5. Stir in sherry, vinegar, salt, soy sauce and pepper. Thicken with cornstarch paste. 6. Slowly add beaten egg, stirring gently once or twice. Remove from heat. Sprinkle with sesame oil and minced scallion. VARIATIONS: For the pork, use half white-meat chicken and half pork. For the white vinegar, substitute wine or cider vinegar, or lemon juice. For the sesame oil, substitute Tabasco Sauce. In step 3, add with pork and mushrooms, 1/2 cup bamboo shoots, slivered; or 4 cloud-ear mushrooms and 1/4 cup lily buds (both soaked and cut in half). Omit vinegar and pepper. (It”s then called Mandarin Soup. ) From <The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook>, ISBN 0-517-65870-4.

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Recipe Serves: 4

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