Hot and Sour Soup
Hot and Sour Soup
A delicious restaurant quality recipe for Hot and Sour Soup!
Ingredients
- 1 bunch green onions
- 1 bunch choi sum
- 4 cans 14.5 oz. chicken broth
- 10 dried shiitake mushrooms, soaked, drained and sliced
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 10 black peppercorns
- 4 star anise
- 0.25 cup rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons or 3 tbsp. Sriracha chili sauce
- 0.5 teaspoon ground white pepper
- 1 juice from 1 large lemon
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons water
- salt to taste
- Optional Garnishes
- Chinese peas
- Bamboo shoots, sliced
- Star mushrooms
- Shrimp or chicken, sliced
Instructions
- Dice green tops of green onions, reserve.
- Reserve the white bottoms, removing the roots first.
- Chop the choi sum leaves, reserve.
- Combine green onion bottoms, choi sum stems, chicken broth, shiitake mushrooms, garlic, peppercorns, star anise, vinegar, chili sauce, white pepper and lemon juice in a large pot.
- Simmer for 1 hour.
- Combine cornstarch and water.
- Bring soup to a boil, then thicken with cornstarch mixture.
- Adjust seasoning if necessary.
- To serve, add the reserved green onion tops, choi sum leaves and any additional garnishes.
- Cover and simmer for 3 minutes.
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