Simple to prepare hot and sour soup.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 40 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 4 cups chicken broth
- ½ cup mushrooms, diced
- ¼ cup shredded cooked chicken (Optional)
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon chile-garlic paste (sambal oelek)
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 ounces firm tofu, drained, cut into 1/4-inch cubes (Optional)
- ⅓ cup canned bamboo shoots, cut into matchsticks (Optional)
- ¼ cup white vinegar
- ¼ teaspoon ground white pepper, or to taste
- 2 tablespoons cold water
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 egg
- 2 green onions, diced
- 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
Instructions
- Bring chicken broth to a simmer in a 2-quart saucepan. Add mushrooms, chicken, soy sauce, chile paste, and garlic. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add tofu, bamboo shoots, vinegar, and white pepper. Simmer for 5 minutes more.
- Combine water and cornstarch in a cup; stir until smooth. Add mixture to the soup and stir well. Let simmer until soup thickens, about 5 minutes more.
- Beat egg in a cup and slowly pour, in a fine stream, into the soup. Stir well and heat through for 30 seconds. Mix in green onions and sesame oil. Remove from heat; serve hot.
- I use Better Than Bouillon(R) to make the chicken broth.
- Substitute cooked chicken with pork if desired.
- Add in any vegetables you prefer along with the tofu. I quite often add celery, carrot, baby bok choy, spinach, cauliflower, or broccoli.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 122 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 10 g |
| Cholesterol | 59 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 8 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 1901 mg |
| Sugars | 3 g |
| Fat | 6 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I love hot and sour soup but had never tried making it. This recipe is simple, quick and delicious. Spicy enough but not extreme. I couldn’t find chili garlic paste so used Tom Yum soup paste and I didn’t have sesame oil so I omitted it. I used four cloves of garlic because garlic! Also left out the tofu because tofu!
Made this as written leaving out the optional chicken and tofu. I realize this is Hot and Sour soup and I like sour but as written this is WAY too sour. The soup is extremely spicy as well and I like spicy but you’ll want to cut back if you are sensitive to it. I am still giving this 4 stars because this will be my go to from now on only I’ll be reducing the vinegar by half.