Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Speedy Hot and Sour Soup

Hello everybody, it's Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, Recipe of Super Quick Homemade Hot and Sour Soup. One of my favorites. This time, I'm gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have Hot and Sour Soup using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Nothing worse than ordering Hot and Sour Soup at a restaurant and get it and it is either missing the spicy or missing the sour! So I worked on and came up with my own Hot & Sour Soup perfect each time.
Ingredients and spices that need to be Get to make Hot and Sour Soup:
- 4 Dried Chinese fungi (1 oz) wood ears or cloud ears (in produce dept.)
- 2 Tbsp canola oil
- 1 ” piece of ginger, peeled ad grated
- 2-3 Tbsp red chili paste, sambal oelek
- 8 oz. button mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
- 1 small can water chestnuts, sliced and drained
- 1/2 cup canned bamboo shoots, drained
- 1/4 lb. shredded pork or chicken
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1 tsp ground white pepper
- Pinch sugar
- 2 quarts chicken stock, hot
- 1 square firm tofu, drained as cut into 1/4” strips
- 3 Tbsp cornstarch w/ 1/4 cup water
- 1 large egg beaten
- Chopped green onion and cilantro for garnish
Steps to make Hot and Sour Soup
- In a small bowl add the dried mushrooms and pour boiling water over them let sit at least 15-29 minutes to rehydrate. Drain and cut into strips
- In large pot put chicken stock to heat up.

- Heat wok or large skillet with sides. Add the oil to heat on medium high.

- To the hot oil add the finger, chili paste, wood ears, button mushrooms, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots and meat. Cook for 1 minute to infuse flavors.

- Next combine soy sauce, vinegars, salt, red pepper flakes, white pepper and sugar. Pour into pan and stir everything together. Will smell amazing!

- Add in the hot chicken stock, bring to boil and then simmer for 10 minutes.

- Add in tofu and cook for 3 minutes m

- Combine cornstarch and water to make a slurry. Add to soup and simmer until it thickens.

- Remove pot from heat and with a spoon swirl soup in 1 direction and add in beaten egg which should cook immediately. Stir to blend egg.

- Garnishes

- Serve soup topped with garnish.

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