hot and sour soup

By scottsdalejulie

Ingredients

• Easy Chinese Hot and Sour Soup
• Here's a Hot and Sour Soup recipe that we like a lot.
• Easy Chinese Hot and Sour Soup
• 4 4 4 cups of chicken broth
• 4 4 4 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1/4 1/4 1/4 cup cooked shredded chicken or pork (canned chicken ok)
• 1/2 1/2 1/2 cup drained canned mushrooms (type of your choice), sliced or diced
• 1/4 1/4 1/4 cup canned bamboo shoots, drained and julienned
• 1/2 1/2 1/2 tablespoon Thai Chili Garlic Sauce (Tabasco Sauce and a little garlic powder as a substitute is ok)
• 1/4 1/4 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
• 2 2 2 tablespoons cornstarch and 2 tablespoons cold water
• 1 1 1 egg, beaten
• 3 3 1/4 oz firm tofu, cut into 1/4 inch dice
• 2 2 2 green onion stalks, diced (including green tops)
• 1/4 1/4 1/4 cup distilled white vinegar
• 1/2 1/2 1/2 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
• to 2-quart broth to a simmer in a 2-quart saucepan.
• Add soy sauce, meat, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, Thai Chili Garlic Sauce and white pepper.
• Simmer for five minutes.
• to two tablespoons of cornstarch with two tablespoons of cold water in a cup. Stir until mixture is smooth. Add cornstarch mixture to soup and stir well.
• 2 3 2 or 3 minutes until soup is thickened.
• Beat egg in a cup until yolk and white are combined. Pour beaten egg slowly, in a fine stream into soup. Stir soup several times.
• 30 30 seconds.
• to tofu and green onions to soup. Stir well. Remove from heat.
• Add distilled white vinegar and sesame oil.
• Stir a few times and serve.
• 4 about 4 cups.

Preparation

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