Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, hot n sour soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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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! The traditional hot and sour soup recipe call for Chinese dry shiitake mushroom.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hot n sour soup using 22 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Hot N Sour Soup:

1. Get Meat and Vegetables
2. Get 1 tbsp cooking oil (not olive oil)
3. Get 4 oz Chicken or pork, thinly sliced (cooked or raw, optional)
4. Get 1/2 cup chopped mushroom, fresh
5. Prepare 1/2 cup carrot, julienned or sliced thin
6. Take 1/2 cup shredded cabbage (optional)
7. Make ready 1 tbsp soy sauce
8. Make ready 1 each Thai pepper, whole or chopped (optional)
9. Take 1 or
10. Take 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
11. Make ready Broth
12. Get 5 cup chicken stock or broth
13. Make ready 2 tbsp soy sauce
14. Take 3 tbsp vinegar such as apple cider, white, or rice
15. Prepare 4 oz extra firm tofu, cut into bite size pieces.
16. Prepare 1 tbsp cornstarch
17. Make ready 2 tbsp water
18. Take Finishes
19. Get 2 each eggs, beaten
20. Take 1/2 tsp white pepper (optional)
21. Get 1/2 tsp sesame oil (use a quality brand)
22. Make ready 2 each green onion, fresh, sliced

In all cases, the soup contains ingredients to make it both spicy and sour. Hot and sour soup recipe with step by step photos. This is a spicy, sour and hot vegetable soup from the Indo Chinese cuisine. Come winters and we really look forward to having hot bowl of soups in the season, even though we are not much of soup lovers.

Steps to make Hot N Sour Soup:

1. Meat and Vegetables: Heat the oil in a medium saucepan on high heat. Note: olive oil has a much lower smoke point than other oils. Not recomended. Note: if using cooked meat, skip to step 2. Add meat if raw. Cook and stir for about 5 min or until mostly done.
2. Note: If you want to reduce the heat, wait to add thai pepper or red pepper flakes until step 7. Add mushroom, carrot, cabbage, and Thai pepper or red pepper flakes. Cook for another 5 min or until carrots are softened slightly.
3. If using cooked meat, add now. Add 1 tablespoon of soy sauce. Stir until the mixture is coated with the soy sauce.
4. Add chicken broth or stock.
5. Note: Read this step completely before doing it. Add remaining soy sauce and vinegar, one tbs at a time, alternating between soy sauce and vinegar. Taste after each tablespoon addition to ensure that the flavor is to your liking. It should have a balanced flavor between salty and sour (you should be able to taste both equally). Adjust as necessary by adding more or less soy sauce or vinegar.
6. Combine cornstarch and water in a separate bowl or cup.
7. Add tofu and cornstarch/water mixture. If you haven't aready, add the Thai pepper or red pepper flakes now for less heat.
8. Bring to a full boil. The broth will thicken slightly.
9. Critical step: After it reaches a boil, remove from heat for about 30 seconds. While stirring slowly, slowly drizzle the beaten eggs into the soup. Note: if the broth is too hot, the eggs will overcook and disintegrate, making a milky broth instead of long ribbons like it's supposed to. Don't worry, it still makes a tasty soup, although the presentation won't be as great.
10. Keep the heat off, but finish the soup by adding the sesame oil and white pepper. Stir to blend.
11. Provide sliced green onion for garnish. Serve.

Chinese Hot and Sour soup broth is made with chicken stock which is flavoured with typical Asian ingredients such as soy sauce, sugar, pepper and ginger. The sourness comes from plain white vinegar. Some recipes use Chinese black vinegar or rice vinegar, but I honestly think white vinegar. I love hot n sour soup but I really didn't like this recipe. The soup seemed to have a dirt taste to it.

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