Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, easy hot and sour soup. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy hot and sour soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Easy hot and sour soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

The traditional hot and sour soup recipe call for Chinese dry shiitake mushroom. Soak the mushrooms in water until it is fully hydrated and become very soft and easy to cut. The time required varies from an hour to two or three hours, as it depends on the thickness of the mushrooms.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook easy hot and sour soup using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy hot and sour soup:

1. Prepare 1 quart chicken broth (I use low sodium)
2. Take 4 oz shiitake mushroom, thinly sliced
3. Take 8 oz (1 small can) thinly sliced bamboo shoot, drained
4. Make ready 12 oz (or 1 box) firm tofu, cut in small cubes or 1/4" strips
5. Take 4 cloves garlic grated/minced
6. Take 1 tbsp minced/grated ginger
7. Take 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
8. Make ready 3 tbsp rice vinegar
9. Take 1.5 tbsp sriracha
10. Prepare 3 tbsp soy sauce
11. Make ready 2 tsp brown sugar
12. Prepare 2 tbsp corn starch mixed with 2tbsp pf cold water
13. Get 2 eggs, lightly beaten
14. Prepare 1 tbsp sesame oil
15. Get White pepper, to taste (I added A LOT as I like it lol)
16. Make ready (Option) green onions

This homemade version turned out to be so stinking amazing - so easy and so much faster than delivery. Is hot and sour soup health? I like Panda Express Hot and Sour Soup so here are the secrets techniques and tips that yield Chinese restaurant's results: Do not use whisk. Beat egg in a cup until yolk and white are combined.

Steps to make Easy hot and sour soup:

1. Add 1 tsp sesame oil and add mushroom to a big sauce pan over medium high heat. Stir fry for 1 minute. (I added some onion, but not necessary)
2. Add ginger and garlic and stir fry for another 30 seconds.
3. Add bamboo shoot and stir fry for another 30 seconds.
4. Add all the rest of the ingredients from the top up to brown sugar to the pan and mix well.
5. Turn the heat down after it starts to boil. Simmer for 5 minutes.
6. Add corn starch mixture and stir, simmer until the soup is slightly thicken, about 2 minutes.
7. Slowly stir in the egg to the soup.
8. Add white pepper and sesame oil and green onion. Simmer for another 1 minute.
9. Remove from heat and serve :)
10. You can pair with fried/steamed dumplings or some stir fry veggies to make a full dinner :D

First time ever making, my wife loves hot n sour soup. Very easy and I could not believe it was even better than the resturant and she loved it. Hot and sour soup can be found on any takeout menu or Chinese buffet line in the US. It ranges in quality and flavor from awesomely delicious to lukewarm, tasteless, and gloopy. There was a time when I never thought to make it myself and resigned myself to the luck of the draw when it came to ordering it.

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