Recipe: Hot & Sour Soup 酸辣汤

Its getting closer to the Chinese new year, which will be on the 23rd of January.


Its about time to try out some recipes for food I like to serve my guests to celebrate the year of the dragon.

Ingredients:

pork slices / also possible with  chicken

mushrooms

carrot

tomato

1 egg

green for the soup

white pepper powder

dark vinegar

corn starch

sesame oil

salt

chicken stock

Put the chicken stock in about 1 liter boiling water, add the sliced pork, sliced mushrooms, carrots and tomato in the pot and bring to Boil. Mix one Table spoon of Corn starch with 3 Table spoons of hot water and add it to the soup. Remove the top layer of foam from the soup and add some drops of sesame oil. Salt to taste. Now add 3 teaspoon of vinegar,(we add later a bit more)

Beat one egg and pour it slowly in the soup. Mix the soup slowly with chopsticks, it must be chopsticks, no skewer, toothpicks,spoons, etc. will be accepted by this soup :-)

Finally add half a teaspoon white pepper powder,two teaspoons of vinegar and a bit of sesame oil. Do this half a minute before you switch off the heat, otherwise the taste will dissolve if you keep boiling the soup further.


As a last step add some green to the soup, for example green onion, parsley or coriander.
享受您的膳食   Enjoy your meal !