Hot and Sour Soup – soup – Hope you will like this one also, it is one of the best soup. View the video also if available, and feel free to comments, share.
Vegeterian Tips: Read the sandwich descriptions on your menu. Most would be quite tasty and still filling without the meat. Just make sure to tell your server that you want to hold the chicken or roast beef, and to double up on the veggies and cheese.
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
- Bamboo shoots (1 can or 300 g fresh)
- pickled red peppers (1 medium glass= 300 g)
- 250 g Tofu
- about one dozen dried Shiitake (=Tongku-) mushrooms
- the same amount black Chinese fungus
- 3-4 spring onions
- 250 g beansprouts
- 100 g dried “glass noodles”
- dried red chillies, dark soy sauce, sesame oil, vinegar, tomato paste
- 1 1/2 litres vegetable stock (or water plus cubes)
- starch
Directions:
Soak mushrooms and fungi in cold water for at least an hour
before preparation. (Hint: they tend to rise to the
surface, use a plate that is slightly smaller than the bowl
to keep them under water)
Heat vegetable stock with about one teaspoonful of ground,
dried red chillies in a LARGE pot. In a separate bowl, pour
boiling water over the glass noodles.
Cut mushrooms and fungi, bamboo shoots, red peppers, spring
onions and tofu into small pieces. Rinse the beansprouts.
Add everything to the vegetable stock including the soaking
water from the mushrooms and the vinegar from the red
peppers.
Dissolve about 3 tablespoons of starch in cold water, add
tomato paste, soy sauce and sesame oil to taste. Add this
mixture to the boiling soup and stir. Drain the glass
noodles and add them to the soup.
Taste the result. It may be necessary to add more soy sauce
and/or vinegar.
Serves: 10
Preparation time: 45 mi
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